Variational famework for Retinex

Ron Kimmel; Michael Elad; Doron Shaked; Renato Keshet; Irwin E. Sobel

doi:10.1117/12.469539

30 May 2002 Variational famework for Retinex

Ron Kimmel, Michael Elad, Doron Shaked, Renato Keshet, Irwin E. Sobel

Proceedings Volume 4662, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging VII; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.469539
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2002, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Retinex theory addresses the problem of separating the illumination from the reflectance in a given image and thereby compensating for non-uniform lighting. This is in general an ill-posed problem. In this paper we propose a variational model for the Retinex problem that unifies previous methods. Similar to previous algorithms, it assumes spatial smoothness of the illumination field. In addition, knowledge of the limited dynamic range of the reflectance is used as a constraint in the recovery process. A penalty term is also included, exploiting a-priori knowledge of the nature of the reflectance image. The proposed formulation adopts a Bayesian view point of the estimation problem, which leads to an algebraic regularization term, that contributes to better conditioning of the reconstruction problem. Based on the proposed variational model, we show that the illumination estimation problem can be formulated as a Quadratic Programming optimization problem. An efficient multi-resolution algorithm is proposed. It exploits the spatial correlation in the reflectance and illumination images. Applications of the algorithm to various color images yield promising results.

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Ron Kimmel, Michael Elad, Doron Shaked, Renato Keshet, and Irwin E. Sobel "Variational famework for Retinex", Proc. SPIE 4662, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging VII, (30 May 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.469539

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