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Color Scene Statistics, Chromatic Scene Statistics

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Chromatic image statistics; Color environment; Color image statistics; Color statistics; Natural color distribution; Natural scene statistics

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Color scene statistics or chromatic scene statistics are statistical characteristics of scene color. There are a number of ways to analyze color scenes (natural scenes) statistically in relation to vision, such as the average color, color distribution, Bayesian model, principal component analysis, and probabilistic models. Color scene statistics are closely related to the evolution and development of the color vision mechanism at every level of the visual system.

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Color vision has evolved with the natural environment, including the natural illumination from the sun and the sky. Thus, the color statistics of a natural scene must have an enormous impact on the evolution and development of the color vision mechanism. There have been many attempts to analyze natural scene statistics and find the connection to the color...

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

    Yoko Mizokami

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  1. Color Science & Imaging Lab, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Renzo Shamey

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    Yoko Mizokami

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Mizokami, Y. (2023). Color Scene Statistics, Chromatic Scene Statistics. In: Shamey, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27851-8_212-2

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    Color Scene Statistics, Chromatic Scene Statistics
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27851-8_212-2

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