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Review talks on vision
- Visual Pathways Overview
Brian A. Wandell (2006).
Slides from the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC Color Forum).
San Francisco, CA.
Review articles
- Roadmap for CMOS image sensors: Moore meets Planck and Sommerfeld
Peter B. Catrysse and Brian A. Wandell (2005).
In Proceedings of the SPIE Electronic Imaging '2005 Conference, vol. 5678, p. 1-13, Digital Photography,
Eds. Sampat, DiCarlo and Motta San Jose, CA. - Digital Color Reproduction
Wandell and Silverstein (2003) The Science of Color 2nd edition,
Ed. S. Shevell, published by the Optical Society of America. - Common Principles of Image Acquisition Systems and Biological Vision
The figure resolution in the preprint is somewhat better.
B. A. Wandell, A. El Gamal, and B. Girod, (2002),
Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 90, Issue 1, pp. 5-17.
Illuminant and Surface Estimation
- Spectral estimation theory: beyond linear but before Bayesian .
DiCarlo JM, Wandell BA (2003).
J. Opt Soc Am A Jul;20(7):1261-70. - Illuminant estimation of natural scenes using the sensor correlation method.
S. Tominaga, A. Ishida, and B. A. Wandell (2002).
Proceedings of the IEEE. 9th Congress of the International Colour Association vol. 4421, pp. 918-921. - Natural scene-illuminant estimation using the sensor correlation.
S. Tominaga and B. A. Wandell (2002).
Proceedings of the IEEE. vol. 90, Issue 1, pp. 42-56. - Illuminating Illumination.
Jeffrey M. DiCarlo, Feng Xiao and Brian A Wandell, Ninth Color Imaging Conference, pgs. 27-34, 2001.
(see related work from Georg Petschnigg and colleagues at Microsoft). - Scene illuminant classification: brighter is better click here to see {Color figures} .
S. Tominaga, S. Ebisui, and B. A. Wandell (2001). JOSA A, vol 18, no. 1 pp. 55-64. - Illuminant Estimation: Beyond the Bases
J. M. DiCarlo and B. A. Wandell (2000). Eighth Color Imaging Conference, pgs. 91-96, Scottsdale, AZ, USA - Estimating Spectral Reflectance of Art Work
Farrell, Saunders, Cuppitt, Wandell (1999). Chiba Conference on Multispectral Imaging. - Linear models of surface and illuminant spectra
David H. Marimont, Brian A. Wandell, JOSA A, vol. 9 Issue 11 Page 1905 (November 1992) - Component estimation of surface spectral reflectance
Shoji Tominaga, Brian A. Wandell, JOSA A, vol. 7 Issue 2 Page 312 (February 1990) - Standard surface-reflectance model and illuminant estimation
Shoji Tominaga, Brian A. Wandell, JOSA A, vol. 6 Issue 4 Page 576 (April 1989)
Camera sensor design and analysis
- Integrating Lens Design with Digital Camera Simulation.
P. Maeda, P. Catrysse, B. Wandell (2005).
In Proceedings of the SPIE Electronic Imaging '2005 Conference, Santa Clara, CA, January 2005 - A simulation tool for evaluating digital camera image quality.
J. E. Farrell, F. Xiao, P. Catrysse, B. Wandell
Proc. SPIE vol. 5294, p. 124-131, Image Quality and System Performance, Miyake and Rasmussen (Eds). January 2005 - Integrated color pixels in 0.18-um complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology
P. Catrysse and B. Wandell (2003).
JOSA A vol. 20, No. 12, 2293-2306. - Color Estimation Error Trade-offs
U. Barnhofer, J. DiCarlo, Ben Olding and B. Wandell (2003).
Proc. SPIE vol. 5017, Santa Clara, CA, January 2003, San Jose - Optical efficiency of image sensor pixels
P. B. Catrysse and B. A. Wandell (2002).
JOSA A, vol. 19, No. 8, pp. 1610-1620 - Experimental high speed cmos image sensor system and applications
Ali Ozer Ercan, Feng Xiao, Xinqiao Liu, Suk Hwan Lim, Abbas El Gamal and Brian Wandell (2002).
IEEE Sensors. - An integrated color pixel in 0.18 um CMOS technology.
P. Catrysse, A. El Gamal and B. A. Wandell (2001)
Proceedings of the IEDM, IEDM-01-559, Published by the IEEE. Washington D.C., 2001. - Image analysis using modulated light sources
F. Xiao, J. M. DiCarlo, P. B. Catrysse and B. A. Wandell (2001).
Proceedings of the SPIE, Image Sensors. vol. 4306, pp. 22-30, San Jose, CA January 2001 - How Small Should Pixel Size Be?
Chen, Catrysse, El Gamal, Wandell, (2000).
Proceedings of the SPIE, Image Sensors. Vol 3965, San Jose, CA January 2000 - Rendering high dynamic range images
J. M. DiCarlo and B. A. Wandell, (2000).
Proceedings of the SPIE, Image Sensors. Vol 3965, pgs. 392-401, San Jose, CA January 2000 - Multiple Capture Single Image with a CMOS Sensor
Wandell, Catrysse, DiCarlo, Yang, El Gamal (1999).
Chiba Conference on Multspectral Imaging, pgs. 11-17. - Comparative analysis of color architectures for image sensors
Catrysse, Wandell, and El Gamal, (1999)
Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol 3650, San Jose, CA
Display and font modeling
Appearance and discrimination metrics
- Psychophysical thresholds and digital camera sensitivity: the thousand photon limit.
F. Xiao, J. Farrell and B. Wandell (2005).
Proc. SPIE vol. 5678, p. 75-84, Digital Photography; Sampat, DiCarlo and Motta (Eds.)
Santa Clara, CA, January 2005 - Preferred Color Spaces for White Balancing
F. Xiao, J. Farrell, J. DiCarlo and B. Wandell (2003).
In Proceedings of the SPIE Electronic Imaging '2003 Conference, vol. 5017, Santa Clara, CA, January 2003 , San Jose - High Dynamic Range Imaging of Natural Scenes
F. Xiao, J. DiCarlo, P. Catrysse and B. Wandell
In Tenth Color Imaging Conference: Color Science, Systems, and Applications, 2002. Scottsdale, AZ. - Color Spaces and Metrics
K-H. Bauml, X. Zhang, and B. Wandell (2001). In Vision Models and Applications to Image and Video Processing. Edited by C. J. van den Branden Lambrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers. - Color Appearance and the Digital Imaging Pipeline
Wandell (2000).
International Conference on Pattern Recognition. Barcelona, Spain. - Color Image Fidelity Metrics Evaluated Using Image Distortion Maps
Zhang and Wandell (1998).
Signal Processing, vol. 70, no 3 p. 201-214. - Image Distortion Maps
Zhang, Setiawan and Wandell, (1997)
Proceedings of the Fifth Color Imaging Conference, IS&T, Scottsdale, Arizona. - Applications of a spatial extension to CIELAB
Zhang, Farrell and Wandell (1997)
Proceedings of the SPIE - Color image quality metric S-CIELAB and its application to halftone texture visibility
Zhang, Silverstein, Farrell and Wandell (1997)
IEEE Compcon 97. - A spatial extension of CIELAB for digital color reproduction
Zhang and Wandell (1996),
Society for Information Display - Color appearance in images: Measurements and Musings
Wandell and Chichilnisky, (1994)
Proceedings of the Second Color Imaging Conference, IS&T, Scottsdale, Arizona. - Water into Wine: Converting Scanner RGB to Tristimulus XYZ.
Wandell and Farrell (1993)
Proceedings of the SPIE, San Jose - Surface characterizations of color thresholds
Allen B. Poirson, Brian A. Wandell, Denise C. Varner, David H. Brainard
JOSA A, vol. 7 Issue 4 Page 783 (April 1990) - Task-dependent color discrimination
Allen B. Poirson, Brian A. Wandell,
JOSA A, vol. 7 Issue 4 Page 776 (April 1990) - Discrete analysis of spatial-sensitivity models
Kenneth R. K. Nielsen, Brian A. Wandell,
JOSA A, vol. 5 Issue 5 Page 743 (May 1988) - Color measurement and discrimination
Brian A. Wandell, JOSA A, vol. 2 Issue 1 Page 62 (January 1985)
S-CIELAB software
- Software: Matlab implementation of the S-CIELAB metric (tar'd gzip) .
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Image Systems Engineering Organization
- Image Systems Engineering at Stanford
Goodman and Wandell (1996) International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).

