Image processing applications through a variational perceptually-based color correction related to Retinex

Abstract

The retinex theory of color vision has been a light of inspiration for color researchers since its inception 50 years ago. It has been adapted to work for different goals such as shadow removal, high dynamic range imaging, or computational color constancy. Back in 2007 a variational perceptually-based color correction model related to Retinex was presented by Bertalmío and colleagues. In this paper we first comment on this model and later we review different image processing applications that have been obtained by performing small modifications to it, namely color gamut mapping and image dehazing.