The Retinex Theory of Color Vision SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

OFFPRINTS The Retinex Theory of Color Vision SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

OFFPRINTS The Retinex Theory of Color Vision SCIENTIFIC

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...

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...

Analysis of the retinex theory of color vision.

If color appearance is to be a useful feature in identifying an object, then color appearance must remain roughly constant when the object is viewed in different contexts. People maintain approximate color constancy despite variation in the color of nearby objects and despite variation in the spectral power distribution of the ambient light. Land's retinex algorithm is a model of human color co...