Study of the photodetector characteristics of a camera for color constancy in natural scenes.

J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis

Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PJ, UK.

Published: February 2010

An algorithm is described to extract two features that represent the chromaticity of a surface and that are independent of both the intensity and correlated color temperature of the daylight illuminating a scene. For mathematical convenience this algorithm is derived using the assumptions that each photodetector responds to a single wavelength and that the spectrum of the illumination source can be represented by a blackbody spectrum. Neither of these assumptions will be valid in a real application. A new method is proposed to determine the effect of violating these assumptions. The conclusion reached is that two features can be obtained that are effectively independent of the daylight illuminant if photodetectors with a spectral response whose full width at half maximum is 80 nm or less are used.

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