Analysis of the retinex theory of color vision.

Retinex at 50: color theory and spatial algorithms, a review

Retinex Imaging shares two distinct elements: first, a model of human color vision; second, a spatialimaging algorithm for making better reproductions. Edwin Land’s 1964 Retinex Color Theory began as a model of human color vision of real complex scenes. He designed many experiments, such as Color Mondrians, to understand why retinal cone quanta catch fails to predict color constancy. Land’s Ret...

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Retinex Poisson Equation: a Model for Color Perception

In 1964 Edwin H. Land formulated the Retinex theory, the first attempt to simulate and explain how the human visual system perceives color. Unfortunately, the Retinex Land-McCann original algorithm is both complex and not fully specified. Indeed, this algorithm computes at each pixel an average of a very large set of paths on the image. For this reason, Retinex has received several interpretati...

Shadow Detection and Removal from Solo Natural Image Based on Retinex Theory

Shadows are physical phenomena observed in most natural scenes. They can cause many problems in computer vision performance. The paper addresses the problem of shadow detection and removal from solo image of natural scenes. Our method is based on Retinex theory which is an image enhancement and illumination compensation model of the lightness and color perception of human vision. The approach p...