1st Edition

A Physical Approach to Color Image Understanding

Edited By Gudrun Klinker Copyright 1993
    200 Pages
    by A K Peters/CRC Press

    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.

    List of Figures, List of Color Figures, List of Tables, Preface, 1. Introduction, 2. A Physical Reflection Model, 3. A Sensor Model, 4. Color Image Segmentation, 5. Separating Pixels in to Their Reflection Components, 6. Results and Discussion, 7. Summary and Conclusions, 8. Related Work from 1988 until 1992, A. Derivation of the 50% -Heuristic, B. Tables of Illumination Geometries, C. Illumination Geometry for d = oo, References, Index

    Biography

    Gudrun Klinker