Abstract

Viewing the lights reflected by a set of three or more surfaces, a trichromatic visual system can recover three color-constant descriptors of reflectance per surface if the color of the surfaces’ illuminant changes. This holds true for a broad range of models that relate photoreceptor, surface, and illuminant spectral properties. Changing illumination, which creates the problem of color constancy, affords its solution.

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Color constancy. I. Basic theory of two-stage linear recovery of spectral descriptions for lights and surfaces

Michael D’Zmura and Geoffrey Iverson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(10) 2148-2165 (1993)

Color constancy. II. Results for two-stage linear recovery of spectral descriptions for lights and surfaces

Michael D’Zmura and Geoffrey Iverson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(10) 2166-2180 (1993)

Color constancy. III. General linear recovery of spectral descriptions for lights and surfaces

Michael D’Zmura and Geoffrey Iverson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(9) 2389-2400 (1994)

Global color constancy: recognition of objects by use of illumination-invariant properties of color distributions

Glenn Healey and David Slater
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(11) 3003-3010 (1994)

Color constancy: generalized diagonal transforms suffice

Graham D. Finlayson, Mark S. Drew, and Brian V. Funt
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(11) 3011-3019 (1994)