Book Cover
E-book

Title A Physical Approach to Color Image Understanding / editor, Gudrun Klinker
Edition First edition
Published Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 1993

Copies

Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of color Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Intrinsic Physical Models for Computer Vision; 1.2 A Physical Approach to Color Image Understanding; 1.3 Preview of Results; 1.4 Outline; 2: A Physical Reflection Model; 2.1 The Physics of Light Reflection; 2.2 The Dichromatic Reflection Model; 2.3 Object Shape and Spectral Variation; 2.4 Dimensionality of the Measurement Space; 2.5 Material Classes; 2.6 Summary; 3: A Sensor Model; 3.1 Spectral Integration
3.2 Limited Dynamic Range3.3 Color Balancing and Spectral Linearization; 3.4 Chromatic Aberration; 3.5 Examples: Color Clusters from Real Color Images; 3.6 Summary; 4: Color Image Segmentation; 4.1 Color Image Analysis Guided by the Dichromatic Reflection Model; 4.2 Generating Initial Estimates for Color Clusters; 4.3 Generating Linear Hypotheses; 4.4 Exploiting Linear Hypotheses; 4.5 Generating Planar Hypotheses; 4.6 Exploiting Planar Hypotheses; 4.7 Accounting for Camera Limitations; 4.8 Optical Effects Beyond the Scope; 4.9 Summary; 5: Separating Pixels into Their Reflection Components
5.1 Determining Body and Surface Reflection Vectors5.2 Generating Intrinsic Reflection Images; 5.3 Restoring the Colors of Clipped and Bloomed Pixels; 5.4 The Use of Intrinsic Reflection Images; 5.5 Summary; 6: Results and Discussion; 6.1 Further Results; 6.2 Comparison with a Traditional Color Segmentation Algorithm; 6.3 Control Parameters; 6.4 Simplifying Heuristics; 6.5 Limitations of the Dichromatic Theory; 6.6 Summary; 7: Summary and Conclusions; 7.1 Contributions; 7.2 Directions of Future Research; 8: Related Work from 1988 until 1992; 8.1 Intrinsic Reflection Images
8.2 Color Image Segmentation8.3 Reflection and Camera Models; 8.4 Analyzing Other Optical Phenomena; 8.5 Are We There Yet?; A: Derivation of the 50%-heuristic; B: Tables of illumination Geometries; C: Illumination Geometry for d = ∞; References; Index
Summary "The author presents a vision model that uses color information to interpret the effects of shading and highlights on a scene. Transcending more traditional approaches, this method may lead to more reliable and useful techniques for image understanding."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Computer graphics
Information visualization.
Image processing.
Computer Graphics
computer graphics.
image processing.
Computer graphics.
Image processing.
Information visualization.
Form Electronic book
Author Klinker, Gudrun, editor
ISBN 9781439864685
1439864683