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This page contains links to some of the data described in:

Kobus Barnard, Lindsay Martin, Brian Funt, and Adam Coath
A Data Set for Colour Research,
Color Research and Application, Volume 27, Number 3, pp. 147-151, 2002.

(This is the appropriate archival reference to this data).

Questions, comments, and problems with this data should be directed to Kobus Barnard.

Description

The image set presented here consists of 186 images of scenes with no or very few specularities. The objects in these scenes include clothing, foam blocks, Munsell paint chip sheets, coloured paper and the Macbeth Color Chart.

See the overview page for a description of how this data was collected.

Preview Images

Both the mondrian AND the specular scenes under one illuminant (157 KB)
(This is Figure 4.10 of Kobus's thesis).

A typical scene under all illuminants (76 KB)
(This is Figure 4.11 of Kobus's thesis).

Data

8-bit TIFF images: mondrian_8_bit.tar.gz (72.4 MB)
(Recomended for most applications)

16-bit TIFF images: mondrian_16_bit.tar.gz (342.2 MB)
(The 16 bit images have only a small amount of extra data beyond the 8 bit images--the true dynamic range of the images is 9-10 bits).

This data was collected by Lindsay Martin, Kobus Barnard, and Adam Coath under the guidance of Kobus Barnard in Brian Funt's Computational Colour Vision Laboratory.

Publications That Reference This Data

Kobus Barnard, Brian Funt, Lindsay Martin and Adam Coath,
A comparison of color constancy algorithms.
Part Two: Experiments with image data,
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, in press.

Kobus Barnard,
Practical Colour Constancy,
Phd thesis, Simon Fraser University, School of Computing Science, 1999, Chapter 4, pp 58-111.