Adaptive Colorimetric Characterization of Camera for the Variation of White Balance

The RGB signals generated by different cameras are not equal for the same scene. Therefore, cameras are characterized based on a CIE standard colorimetric observer. One method of deriving a colorimetric characterization matrix between camera RGB output signals and CIE XYZ tristimulus values is least squares polynomial modeling. Yet, this involves tedious experiments to obtain a camera transfer matrix under various white balance points for the same camera. Accordingly, the current paper proposes a new method for obtaining camera transfer matrices under different white balances using a 3 × 3 camera transfer matrix under a specific white balance point. key words: camera characterization, colorimetric characterization, camera transfer matrix, camera calibration