This interdisciplinary paper hypothesizes that Rembrandt, reacting to his Italian contemporaries, developed specific painterly techniques, typically not associated with the early modern period that engaged the viewer and directed their gaze. Though these methods were not based on scientific evidence at the time, it can be argued that they are based on a correct understanding of visual perceptio...

A wide variety of color schemes have been devised for mapping scalar data to color. Some use the data value to index a color scale. Others assign colors to different, usually blended disjoint materials, to handle areas where materials overlap. A number of methods can map low-dimensional data to color, however, these methods do not scale to higher dimensional data. Likewise, schemes that take a ...

This study investigated appropriate methodologies for displaying hyperspectral imagery based on knowledge of human color vision as applied to Hyperion and AVIRIS data. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Independent Component Analysis (ICA) were used to reduce the data dimensionality in order to make the data more amenable to visualization in three-dimensional color space. In addition, these...

One of the most fundamental features of scientific visualization is the process of mapping scalar values to colors. This process allows us to view scalar fields by coloring surfaces and volumes. Unfortunately, the majority of scientific visualization tools still use a color map that is famous for its ineffectiveness: the rainbow color map. This color map, which näıvely sweeps through the most s...

The recently discovered color homography theorem proves that colors across a change in photometric viewing condition are related by a homography [2]. In this paper, we propose a color-homography-based color transfer decomposition which encodes color transfer as a combination of chromaticity shift and shading adjustment. Our experiments show that the proposed color transfer decomposition provide...

Image manipulation takes many forms. A powerful approach involves image adjustment by example. To make color editsmore intuitive, the intelligent transfer of a user-specified target image’s color palette can achieve a multitude of creative effects, provided the user is supplied with a small set of straightforward parameters. We present a novel histogram reshaping technique which allows signific...

Current color-printing technologies may use three or more inks, e.g., CMY, CMYK, CMYKcm, CMYKGO, CMYKRGB. When the number of inks exceeds three, there is the usual color-management one-to-many mapping problem. Because the spectral properties of many modern inks are optimized for maximum color gamut and in some cases, black ink may not be used for pictorial images, many prints have poor color co...

Automatic separation of text and symbols from graphics in document image is one of the fundamental aims in graphics recognition. In maps, separation of text and symbols from graphics involves many challenges because the text and symbols frequently touch/overlap with graphical components. Sometimes the colors in a single character are gradually distributed which adds extra difficulty in text and...

This paper presents a novel method for mobile robot localization using visual appearance features. A multidimensional-histogram is used to describe the global appearance features of an image such as colors, edge density, gradient magnitude, textures and so on. The matching of histograms determines the location of the robot. The method has been evaluated in an indoor environment, and the system ...

Texture mapping on scanned objects, that is, the method to map current color images on a 3D geometric model measured by a range sensor, is a key technique of photometric modeling for virtual reality. Usually range and color images are obtained from different viewing positions, through two independent range and color sensors. Thus, in order to map those color images on the geometric model, it is...