Simplifying irradiance independent color calibration

Pouya Bastani; Brian Funt

doi:10.1117/12.2042507

3 February 2014 Simplifying irradiance independent color calibration

Pouya Bastani, Brian Funt

Proceedings Volume 9015, Color Imaging XIX: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications; 90150N (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042507
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

An important component of camera calibration is to derive a mapping of a camera’s output RGB to a device independent color space such as the CIE XYZ or sRGB⁶. Commonly, the calibration process is performed by photographing a color chart in a scene under controlled lighting and finding a linear transformation M that maps the chart’s colors from linear camera RGB to XYZ. When the XYZ values corresponding to the color chart’s patches are measured under a reference illumination, it is often assumed that the illumination across the chart is uniform when it is photographed. This simplifying assumption, however, often is violated even in such relatively controlled environments as a light booth, and it can lead to inaccuracies in the calibration. The problem of color calibration under non-uniform lighting was investigated by Funt and Bastani^2,3. Their method, however, uses a numerical optimizer, which can be complex to implement on some devices and has a relatively high computational cost. Here, we present an irradiance-independent camera color calibration scheme based on least-squares regression on the unit sphere that can be implemented easily, computed quickly, and performs comparably to the previously suggested technique.

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Pouya Bastani and Brian Funt "Simplifying irradiance independent color calibration", Proc. SPIE 9015, Color Imaging XIX: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications, 90150N (3 February 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042507

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