Color Constancy Algorithms Related to Human Visual Cognitive Process

Abstract

Based on the cognition of the physiological structure of the human visual system, this paper considers that the mechanism of the human visual system to perceive the image color appearance includes the adaptive mechanism of the retinal photoreceptor to the ambient light and the spatial frequency response mechanism of the Neuronal receptive field in the visual pathway. In this paper, we first provide the computing framework of the image color appearance model related to human cognitive process, then propose using Gabor wavelet as the basis function of the visual nerve cells response to apply CIECAT02 model to the calculation of image color adaption and to simulate the multi-scale superposition of human visual spatial frequency tuning curves, and finally accomplish the development of the algorithm for predicting image color appearance. The results show that the prediction algorithm proposed in this paper is closer to the visual perception of human eyes than the similar algorithm.