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| '''Color normalization''' is a topic in [[computer vision]] concerned with artificial [[color vision]] and object recognition. In general, the distribution of color values in an image depends on the illumination - which may vary i.e. depending on different lighting conditions or different cameras. Colour normalisation allows for object recognition techniques based on colour, to compensate for these variations.
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| === Color constancy ===
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| {{main|Color constancy}}
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| [[Color constancy]] is a feature of the human internal model of perception, which provides us with the ability to assign a relatively constant color to objects even under different illumination conditions. This is helpful for object recognition as well as identification of light sources in an environment. For example, humans see an object approximately as the same color during the day when the sun is bright as well as during noon when the sun is dim.
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| === Applications ===
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| Color normalization has been used for object recognition on color images in the field of [[Robotics]], [[Bioinformatics]] and general [[Artificial Intelligence]], when it is important to remove all intensity values from the image while preserving color values. One example is in case of a scene shot by a [[surveillance]] camera over the day, where it is important to remove shadows or lighting changes on same color pixels and recognize the people that passed.<ref name="background">{{cite journal
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| | author = Maria Vanrell
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| | coauthors = Felipe Lumbreras, Albert Pujol, Ramon Baldrich, Josep Llados, J.J. Villanueva
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| | date = 7 October 2001
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| | title = Colour normalisation based on background information
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| | journal = Image Processing, 2001
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| | volume = 1
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| | isbn = 0-7803-6725-1
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| | inspec = 7210999
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| | pages = 874–877
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| | location = Thessaloniki, Greece
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| | url = http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=959185
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| }}</ref> Another example is automated screening tools used for the detection of diabetic retinopathy<ref name="retina">{{cite report
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| | author = Keith A. Goatman
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| | coauthors = A. David Whitwam, A. Manivannan, John A. Olson, Peter F. Sharp
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| | title = Colour normalisation of retinal images
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| | affiliation = Bio-Medical Physics & Bio-Engineering, University of Aberdeen
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| | url = http://www.biomed.abdn.ac.uk/Abstracts/A01128/kag_miua2003.pdf
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| }}</ref> as well as molecular diagnosis of cancer states,<ref name="cancer">{{cite journal
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| | author = Mark A. Rubin
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| | coauthors = Maciej P. Zerkowski, Robest L. Camp, Rainer Kuefer, Matthias D. Hofer, Arul M. Chinnaiyan, David L. Rimm
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| |date=March 2004
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| | title = Quantitative Determination of Expression of the Prostate Cancer Protein a-Methylacyl-CoA Racemase Using Automated Quantitative Analysis (AQUA)
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| | journal = The Americal Journal of Pathology
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| | volume = 164(3)
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| | pages = 831–840
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| | pmc=1613273
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| | pmid=14982837
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| }}</ref> where it is important to include color information during classification.
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| == Known issues ==
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| The main issue about certain applications of color normalization is that the end result looks unnatural or too distant from the original colors.<ref name="first">{{Cite report
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| | author = L.Csink
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| | coauthors = D. Paulus, U. Ahlrichs, B. Heigl
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| | url = http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~agas/Documents/Csink1998CNA.pdf
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| | date = 1990-09-24
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| | title = Color Normalization and Object Localization
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| }}</ref> In cases where there is a subtle variation between important aspects, this can be problematic. More specifically, the side effect can be that pixels become divergent and not reflect the actual color value of the image.
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| A way of combating this issue is to use color normalization in combination with [[thresholding (image processing)]] to correctly and consistently segment a colored image.<ref name="book">{{cite book
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| | last = Burger
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| | first = Wilhelm
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| | coauthors = Mark J. Burge
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| | title = Digital Image Processing: An algorithmic introduction using Java
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| | publisher = [[Springer Publishing|Springer]]
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| | year = 2008
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| | isbn = 978-1846283796
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| }}</ref>
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| == Transformations and algorithms ==
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| There is a vast array of different transformations and algorithms for achieving color normalization and a limited list is presented here. It is important to note that the performance of an algorithm is dependent on the task and one algorithm which performs better than another in one task, might perform worse in another ([[No free lunch theorem]]). Additionally, the choice of the algorithm depends on the preferences of the user for the end-result i.e. more natural-looking color image.
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| === Grey world ===
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| The grey world normalization makes the assumption that changes in the lighting spectrum can be modelled by three constant factors applied to the red, green and blue channels of color.<ref name="face">{{cite report
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| | author = Jose M. Buenaposada
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| | coauthors = Luis Baumela
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| | title = Variations of Grey World for face tracking
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| | affiliation = Departmento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
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| | url =http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/~pcr/publications/impcomm2001.pdf
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| }}</ref> More specifically, a change in illuminated color can be modelled as a scaling α, β and γ in the R, G and B color channels and as such the grey world algorithm is invariant to illumination color variations. Therefore a constancy solution can be achieved by dividing each color channel by its average value as shown in the following formula:
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| \left ( \alpha R, \beta G, \gamma B \right ) \rarr \left ( \frac{\alpha R}{\frac{\alpha}{n} \sum_i R }, \frac{\beta G}{\frac{\beta}{n} \sum_i G }, \frac{\gamma B}{\frac{\gamma}{n} \sum_i B } \right )
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| As mentioned above, grey world color normalization is invariant to illuminated color variations α, β and γ, however it has one important problem: it does not account for all variations of illumination intensity and it is not dynamic; when new objects appear in the scene it fails.<ref name="face" /> To solve this problem there are several variants of the grey world algorithm.<ref name="face" />
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| Additionally there is an iterative variation of the grey world normalization, however it was not found to perform significantly better.<ref name="finlay">{{cite journal
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| | author = G.D. Finlayson
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| | coauthors = B. Shiele, J.L. Crowley
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| | year = 1998
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| | title = Comprehensive Colour Image Normalization
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| | journal = Burkhard and Neumann
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| | inspec = 7210999
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| | pages = 475–490
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| | url = http://www-prima.imag.fr/jlc/papers/ECCV98-Finlayson.pdf
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| }}</ref>
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| === Histogram equalization ===
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| [[Histogram equalization]] is a non-linear transform which maintains pixel rank and is capable of normalizing for any monotonically increasing color transform function. It is considered to be a more powerful normalization transformation than they grey world method. The results of histogram equalization tend to have an exaggerated blue channel and look unnatural, due to the fact that in most images the distribution of the pixel values is usually more similar to a Gaussian distribution, rather than uniform.<ref name="book" />
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| === Histogram specification ===
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| Histogram specification transforms the red, green and blue histograms to match the shapes of three specific histograms, rather than simply equalizing them. It refers to a class of image transforms which aims to obtain images of which the histograms have a desired shape.<ref name="retina" />
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| As specified, firstly it is necessary to convert the image so that it has a particular histogram.
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| Assume an image x. The following formula is the equalization transform of this image:
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| y = f(x) = \int\limits_{0}^{x} p_x (u) du
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| Then assume wanted image z. The equalization transform of this image is:
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| y' = g(z) = \int\limits_{0}^{z} p_z (u) du
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| Of course p_z (u) is the histogram of the output image.
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| The formula to find the inverse of the above transform is:
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| z = g^{-1} (y')
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| Therefore, since images y and y' have the same equalized histogram they are actually the same image, meaning y = y' and the transform from the given image x to the wanted image z is:
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| z = g^{-1} (y') = g^{-1} (y) = g^{-1} (f(x))
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| Histogram specification has the advantage of producing more realistic looking images,<ref>{{cite journal
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| | author = A. Osareh
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| | coauthors = M. Mirmehdi, B. Thomas et al.
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| | year = 2002
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| | title = Classification and localisation of diabetic-related eye disease
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| | journal = Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision
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| | publisher = [[Springer-Verlag]]
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| | pages = 502–516
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| | url = http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=649256
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| }}</ref> as it does not exaggerate the blue channel like [[histogram equalization]].
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| === Comprehensive Color Normalization ===
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| The comprehensive color normalization is shown to increase localization and object classification results in combination with color indexing.<ref name="finlay" /> It is an iterative algorithm which works in two stages. The first stage is to use the red, green and blue color space with the intensity normalized, to normalize each pixel. The second stage is to normalize each color channel separately, so that the sum of the color components is equal to one third of the number of pixels. The iterations continue until convergence, meaning no additional changes. Formally:
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| Normalize the color image
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| f^{(t)} = [f_{ij}^{(t)}]_{i = 1...N, j = 1...M}
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| which consists of color vectors | |
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| f_{ij}^{(t)} = (r_{ij}^{(t)}, g_{ij}^{(t)}, b_{ij}^{(t)})^T .
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| For the first step explained above, compute:
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| S_{ij} := r_{ij}^{(t)} + g_{ij}^{(t)} + b_{ij}^{(t)}
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| which leads to
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| r_{ij}^{(t+1)} = \frac{r_{ij}^{(t)}}{S_{ij}}, g_{ij}^{(t+1)} = \frac{g_{ij}^{(t)}}{S_{ij}}
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| and
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| b_{ij}^{(t+1)} = \frac{b_{ij}^{(t)}}{S_{ij}}.
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| </math>
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| For the second step explained above, compute:
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| r' = \frac{1}{NM} \sum_{i=1}^N \sum_{j=1}^M r_{ij}^{(t)}
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| and normalize
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| r_{ij}^{(t+2)} = \frac{r_{ij}^{(t+1)}}{r'}.
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| Of course the same process is done for b' and g'. Then these two steps are repeated until the changes between iteration t and t+2 are less than some set threshold.
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| Comprehensive color normalization, just like the [[histogram equalization]] method previously mentioned, produces results that may look less natural due to the reduction in the number of color values.<ref name="first" />
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| == References ==
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| <references/>
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| == Bibliography ==
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| *{{Cite report
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| | author = L.Csink
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| | coauthors = D. Paulus, U. Ahlrichs, B. Heigl
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| | url = www.uni-koblenz.de/~agas/Documents/Csink1998CNA.pdf
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| | date = 1990-09-24
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| | title = Color Normalization and Object Localization
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| }}
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| *{{cite journal
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| | author = Mark A. Rubin
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| | coauthors = Maciej P. Zerkowski, Robest L. Camp, Rainer Kuefer, Matthias D. Hofer, Arul M. Chinnaiyan, David L. Rimm
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| |date=March 2004
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| | title = Quantitative Determination of Expression of the Prostate Cancer Protein a-Methylacyl-CoA Racemase Using Automated Quantitative Analysis (AQUA)
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| | journal = The Americal Journal of Pathology
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| | volume = 164(3)
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| | pages = 831–840
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| | pmc=1613273
| |
| | pmid=14982837
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| }}
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| *{{cite journal
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| | author = Maria Vanrell
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| | coauthors = Felipe Lumbreras, Albert Pujol, Ramon Baldrich, Josep Llados, J.J. Villanueva
| |
| | date = 7 October 2001
| |
| | title = Colour normalisation based on background information
| |
| | journal = Image Processing, 2001
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| | volume = 1
| |
| | isbn = 0-7803-6725-1
| |
| | inspec = 7210999
| |
| | pages = 874–877
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| | location = Thessaloniki, Greece
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| | url = http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=959185
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| }}
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| *{{cite book
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| | last = Burger
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| | first = Wilhelm
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| | coauthors = Mark J. Burge
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| | title = Digital Image Processing: An algorithmic introduction using Java
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| | publisher = [[Springer Publishing|Springer]]
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| | year = 2008
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| | isbn = 978-1846283796
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| }}
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| *{{cite journal
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| | author = G.D. Finlayson
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| | coauthors = B. Shiele, J.L. Crowley
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| | year = 1998
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| | title = Comprehensive Colour Image Normalization
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| | journal = Burkhard and Neumann
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| | inspec = 7210999
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| | pages = 475–490
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| | url = http://www-prima.imag.fr/jlc/papers/ECCV98-Finlayson.pdf
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| }}
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| *{{cite journal
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| | author = A. Osareh
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| | coauthors = M. Mirmehdi, B. Thomas et al.
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| | year = 2002
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| | title = Classification and localisation of diabetic-related eye disease
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| | journal = Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision
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| | publisher = [[Springer-Verlag]]
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| | pages = 502–516
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| | url = http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=649256
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| }}
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| *{{cite journal
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| | author = Juan Sanchez
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| | coauthors = Xavier Binefa
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| | affiliation = Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Computer Vision Center and Dpt. d'Informatica Edifici
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| | title = Color Normalization for Digital Video Processing
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| | series = Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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| | editor = Laurini, Robert
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| | publisher = [[Springer Publishing|Springer]]
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| | isbn = 978-3-540-41177-2
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| | pages = 125–139
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| | volume = 2929
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| | year = 200
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| | doi=10.1007/3-540-40053-2_17
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| }}
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| *{{cite report
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| | author = Jose M. Buenaposada
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| | coauthors = Luis Baumela
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| | title = Variations of Grey World for face tracking
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| | affiliation = Departmento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
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| | url =http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/~pcr/publications/impcomm2001.pdf
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| }}
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| *{{cite report
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| | author = Keith A. Goatman
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| | coauthors = A. David Whitwam, A. Manivannan, John A. Olson, Peter F. Sharp
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| | title = Colour normalisation of retinal images
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| | affiliation = Bio-Medical Physics & Bio-Engineering, University of Aberdeen
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| | url = http://www.biomed.abdn.ac.uk/Abstracts/A01128/kag_miua2003.pdf
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| }}
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| == External links ==
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| *[http://fourier.eng.hmc.edu/e161/lectures/contrast_transform/contrast_transform.html Image Enhancement by Contrast Transform]
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| *[http://web.media.mit.edu/~wad/color/constancy.html Color Constancy MIT]
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| [[Category:Artificial intelligence]]
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The adore for branded outfits and extras is not new, but men and females are just in appreciate with shopping branded objects for themselves.
This is the purpose, why the popularity and desire for designer outfits, footwear and purses have been escalating by just about every passing working day.�
Different trend homes have brought natural beauty and class in the lives of men and women living across the world. When you go out in the marketplace for searching or store online, then you come throughout a substantial range of manufacturers, which are marketing incredible items, but if you chat about sleekness and lovely extras then almost nothing can be improved then Abercrombie and Fitch.�
This model has been exceedingly rising consideration of guys and girls. The rationale of these types of a sturdy enjoy for the A&F garment and accessories is the way this model fulfills the style demands of guys gals, belonging from various walks of lifestyl
Abercrombie and Fitch outlet has turn out to be a single of the most sought following retailer
You will get total assortment of branded goods, shelved in an appealing way. Adult males and women of diverse ages have been incredibly glad by the way, Abercrombie and Fitch has been catering their vogue demands. This brand has attained appreciable respect, for it has always been prosperous in going beyond the anticipations of it�s hugely prestigious and esteemed buyer
The extra you devote on the garments of Abercrombie and Fitch, the additional you adorn and improve the value of your clothes and add-ons assortme
If you are fashion freak human being and do not want to glimpse like they your good friends look, then nothing at all can be superior than visiting your nearest Abercrombie and Fitch outlet. You will be astonished to see so many fashionable, trendy and modish solutions available, beneath a person roo
Abercrombie and Fitch has been providing some definitely Celine handbags bags trendy garments, for adult men and g
� The demand from customers for the products and solutions of this model is very a lot substantial in younger men and women. This brand name pays sheer attention on building and production the solutions of the optimum top quality. The material, hues, stitching and detailing of the goods of A&F, makes this manufacturer extremely different, novel and styli
It talks about giving decent and innovative merchandise to its pros
c
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s.� This manufacturer understands the style demands of its buyers. It has been devoted in catering their wants and would like to go further than its customers� anticipations. This is the explanation, why so lots of consumers have constantly been checking out their nearest and closest Abercrombie and Fitch o
let.
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