The spatial distributions of melanin and hemoglobin in human skin are separated by independent-component analysis of a skin color image. The analysis is based on the skin color model with three assumptions: (1) Spatial variation of color in the skin is caused by two pigments, melanin and hemoglobin; (2) the quantities of the two pigments are mutually independent spatially; and (3) linearity hol...

Different industries are usually faced with computer color matching as an important problem. The most famous formula which is commonly used for recipe prediction is based on Kubelka-Munk K-M theory. Considering that spectrophotometer’s geometry and its situation influence the measured spectral values, the performance of this method can be affected by the instrument. In the present study, three ...

Polychromatic object recognition based on circular whitening preprocessing of red-green-blue components and multichannel matched filtering is described. Computer simulations and experimental results are provided to facilitate recognizing a color target among objects of similar shape but with different color contents. Experimental results are obtained with an optical correlator with two spatial ...

This paper presents the concept of color space normalization (CSN) and two CSN techniques, i.e., the within-color-component normalization technique (CSN-I) and the across-color-component normalization technique (CSN-II), for enhancing the discriminating power of color spaces for face recognition. Different color spaces usually display different discriminating power, and our experiments on a lar...

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to improve the visual appearance of nighttime video. The proposed method firstly converts the video from RGB color space to YCbCr color space, and then Y component is extracted to enhance illumination using a new image fusion method, which uses wavelet transform. Secondly, low-pass Gaussian filter is used to resolve vague areas problems of the enhanced...

We propose a technique to modify colors in photographic images predicting the color appearance of objects in an image under different illuminations. Using the dichromatic surface reflectance model, we estimate the illumination spectrum and the spectrum of the diffuse surface reflectance via the color histogram and subspace analyses. With this estimated spectral information, and the spectrum of ...