Optimal color filters in the presence of noise

  • Authors:
  • M. J. Vrhel;H. J. Trussell

  • Affiliations:
  • Biomed. Eng. & Instrum. Program., Nat. Inst. of Health, Bethesda, MD;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

The effect of noise on the number of effective channels (color filters) used to record a color image is investigated. Transmittances of color filters are calculated that minimize the mean square error that occurs when estimating, from the recorded data, the colors in the image under a collection of viewing illuminants. Since the results indicate that a significant improvement in color correction accuracy is achieved by using four channels, there is good reason to consider using four-tuples for representation of colorimetric information