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Author Jordi Roca; Maria Vanrell; C. Alejandro Parraga edit  url
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Title What is constant in colour constancy? Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 6th European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 337-343  
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Abstract Color constancy refers to the ability of the human visual system to stabilize
the color appearance of surfaces under an illuminant change. In this work we studied how the interrelations among nine colors are perceived under illuminant changes, particularly whether they remain stable across 10 different conditions (5 illuminants and 2 backgrounds). To do so we have used a paradigm that measures several colors under an immersive state of adaptation. From our measures we defined a perceptual structure descriptor that is up to 87% stable over all conditions, suggesting that color category features could be used to predict color constancy. This is in agreement with previous results on the stability of border categories [1,2] and with computational color constancy
algorithms [3] for estimating the scene illuminant.
 
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Call Number (down) RVP2012 Serial 2189  
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Author Javier Vazquez; Maria Vanrell; Anna Salvatella; Eduard Vazquez edit  openurl
Title A colour space based on the image content Type Book Chapter
Year 2007 Publication Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, C. Angulo and L. Godo, pp 205–212 IOS Press Abbreviated Journal  
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Call Number (down) CAT @ cat @ VVS2007 Serial 829  
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Author Javier Vazquez; Maria Vanrell; Robert Benavente edit  openurl
Title Color names as a constraint for Computer Vision problems Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication Proceedings of The CREATE 2010 Conference Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 324–328  
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Abstract Computer Vision Problems are usually ill-posed. Constraining de gamut of possible solutions is then a necessary step. Many constrains for different problems have been developed during years. In this paper, we present a different way of constraining some of these problems: the use of color names. In particular, we will focus on segmentation, representation ans constancy.  
Address Gjovik (Norway)  
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Call Number (down) CAT @ cat @ VVB2010 Serial 1328  
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Author Javier Vazquez; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich edit  openurl
Title Towards a Psychophysical Evaluation of Colour Constancy Algorithms Type Conference Article
Year 2008 Publication 4th European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision Proceedings Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 372–377  
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Address Terrassa (Spain)  
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Area Expedition Conference CGIV08  
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Call Number (down) CAT @ cat @ VVB2008a Serial 968  
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Author Eduard Vazquez; Francesc Tous; Ramon Baldrich; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title n-Dimensional Distribution Reduction Preserving its Structure Type Book Chapter
Year 2006 Publication Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, M. Polit et al. (Eds.), 146: 167–175 Abbreviated Journal  
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Call Number (down) CAT @ cat @ VTB2006a Serial 681  
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Author Javier Vazquez; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title Ordinal pairwise method for natural images comparison Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal PER  
Volume 38 Issue Pages 180  
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Abstract 38(Suppl.)ECVP Abstract Supplement
We developed a new psychophysical method to compare different colour appearance models when applied to natural scenes. The method was as follows: two images (processed by different algorithms) were displayed on a CRT monitor and observers were asked to select the most natural of them. The original images were gathered by means of a calibrated trichromatic digital camera and presented one on top of the other on a calibrated screen. The selection was made by pressing on a 6-button IR box, which allowed observers to consider not only the most natural but to rate their selection. The rating system allowed observers to register how much more natural was their chosen image (eg, much more, definitely more, slightly more), which gave us valuable extra information on the selection process. The results were analysed considering both the selection as a binary choice (using Thurstone's law of comparative judgement) and using Bradley-Terry method for ordinal comparison. Our results show a significant difference in the rating scales obtained. Although this method has been used in colour constancy algorithm comparisons, its uses are much wider, eg to compare algorithms of image compression, rendering, recolouring, etc.
 
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Call Number (down) CAT @ cat @ VPV2009b Serial 1191  
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Author Javier Vazquez; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich edit  doi
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Title Color Constancy Algorithms: Psychophysical Evaluation on a New Dataset Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Journal of Imaging Science and Technology Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 53 Issue 3 Pages 031105–9  
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Abstract The estimation of the illuminant of a scene from a digital image has been the goal of a large amount of research in computer vision. Color constancy algorithms have dealt with this problem by defining different heuristics to select a unique solution from within the feasible set. The performance of these algorithms has shown that there is still a long way to go to globally solve this problem as a preliminary step in computer vision. In general, performance evaluation has been done by comparing the angular error between the estimated chromaticity and the chromaticity of a canonical illuminant, which is highly dependent on the image dataset. Recently, some workers have used high-level constraints to estimate illuminants; in this case selection is based on increasing the performance on the subsequent steps of the systems. In this paper we propose a new performance measure, the perceptual angular error. It evaluates the performance of a color constancy algorithm according to the perceptual preferences of humans, or naturalness (instead of the actual optimal solution) and is independent of the visual task. We show the results of a new psychophysical experiment comparing solutions from three different color constancy algorithms. Our results show that in more than a half of the judgments the preferred solution is not the one closest to the optimal solution. Our experiments were performed on a new dataset of images acquired with a calibrated camera with an attached neutral grey sphere, which better copes with the illuminant variations of the scene.  
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Call Number (down) CAT @ cat @ VPV2009a Serial 1171  
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Author Javier Vazquez; G. D. Finlayson; Maria Vanrell edit  isbn
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Title A compact singularity function to predict WCS data and unique hues Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 5th European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision and 12th International Symposium on Multispectral Colour Science Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 33–38  
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Abstract Understanding how colour is used by the human vision system is a widely studied research field. The field, though quite advanced, still faces important unanswered questions. One of them is the explanation of the unique hues and the assignment of color names. This problem addresses the fact of different perceptual status for different colors.
Recently, Philipona and O'Regan have proposed a biological model that allows to extract the reflection properties of any surface independently of the lighting conditions. These invariant properties are the basis to compute a singularity index that predicts the asymmetries presented in unique hues and basic color categories psychophysical data, therefore is giving a further step in their explanation.

In this paper we build on their formulation and propose a new singularity index. This new formulation equally accounts for the location of the 4 peaks of the World colour survey and has two main advantages. First, it is a simple elegant numerical measure (the Philipona measurement is a rather cumbersome formula). Second, we develop a colour-based explanation for the measure.
 
Address Joensuu, Finland  
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Area Expedition Conference CGIV/MCS  
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Call Number (down) CAT @ cat @ VFV2010 Serial 1324  
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Author Eduard Vazquez; Ramon Baldrich; Javier Vazquez; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title Topological histogram reduction towards colour segmentation Type Book Chapter
Year 2007 Publication 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2007), J. Marti et al. (Eds.) LNCS 4477:55–62 Abbreviated Journal  
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Address Gerona (Spain)  
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Call Number (down) CAT @ cat @ VBV2007 Serial 809  
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Author Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich; Anna Salvatella; Robert Benavente; Francesc Tous edit  openurl
Title Induction operators for a computational colour-texture representation Type Journal
Year 2004 Publication Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 94(1–3):92–114, ISSN: 1077–3142 (IF: 0.651) Abbreviated Journal  
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Call Number (down) CAT @ cat @ VBS2004 Serial 453  
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Author Eduard Vazquez; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title Eines per al desenvolupament de competencies de enginyeria en un assignatura de Intel·ligencia Artificial Type Miscellaneous
Year 2008 Publication V Jornades d’Innovacio Docent (UAB) Abbreviated Journal  
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Call Number (down) CAT @ cat @ VaV2008 Serial 1011  
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Author Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title Exploring the space of behaviour of a texture perception algorithm Type Report
Year 1997 Publication CVC Technical Report #12 Abbreviated Journal  
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Call Number (down) CAT @ cat @ Van1997 Serial 523  
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Author Francesc Tous; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich edit  openurl
Title Relaxed Grey-World: Computational Colour Constancy by Surface Matching Type Book Chapter
Year 2005 Publication Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2005), LNCS 3522:192–199 Abbreviated Journal  
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Address Estoril (Portugal)  
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Call Number (down) CAT @ cat @ TVB2005 Serial 555  
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Author Francesc Tous; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich edit  openurl
Title Exploring Colour Constancy Solutions. Type Miscellaneous
Year 2004 Publication CGIV 2004 Second European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging, and Vision, 24:29 Abbreviated Journal  
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Address Aachen (Germany)  
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Call Number (down) CAT @ cat @ TVB2004 Serial 452  
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