An optimized tongue image color correction scheme

  • Authors:
  • Xingzheng Wang;David Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Biometrics Research Center, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong;Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China and Biometrics Research Center, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The color images produced by digital cameras are usually device-dependent, i.e., the generated color information (usually presented in RGB color space) is dependent on the imaging characteristics of specific cameras. This is a serious problem in computer-aided tongue image analysis because it relies on the accurate rendering of color information. In this paper, we propose an optimized correction scheme that corrects the tongue images captured in different device-dependent color spaces to the target device-independent color space. The correction algorithm in this scheme is generated by comparing several popular correction algorithms, i.e., polynomial-based regression, ridge regression, support vector regression, and neural network mapping algorithms. We test the performance of the proposed scheme by computing the CIE L*a*b* color difference (ΔE*ab) between estimated values and the target reference values. The experimental results on the colorchecker showthat the color difference is less than 5 (ΔE*ab