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Colour Constancy Algorithm Based on the Minimization of the Distance between Colour Histograms

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Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2003)

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Colour is an important clue in many applications in machine vision and image processing.

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  1. Institut de Róbotica i Informática, Industrial Technological Park of Barcelona, U Building, Llorens i Artigas 4-6 2nd Floor, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

    Jaume Vergés-Llahí & Alberto Sanfeliu

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  1. Unitat de Gràfics i Visió per Ordinador Departament de Ciències Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de les Illes Balears Edifici Anselm Turmeda, Ctra. de Valldemossa km 7,5, 07122, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

    Francisco José Perales

  2. FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    Aurélio J. C. Campilho

  3. Departamento de Ciencias da la Computacíon e I.A., Universidad de Granada, E.T. S. Ing. Informática, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Nicolás Pérez de la Blanca

  4. Dept. System Engineering and Automation, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Barcelona, Spain

    Alberto Sanfeliu

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Vergés-Llahí, J., Sanfeliu, A. (2003). Colour Constancy Algorithm Based on the Minimization of the Distance between Colour Histograms. In: Perales, F.J., Campilho, A.J.C., de la Blanca, N.P., Sanfeliu, A. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2652. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44871-6_123

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