Topic · Color Science and Applications
Most cited papers in Color Science and Applications
What are the most cited papers in Color Science and Applications?
The most cited paper in Color Science and Applications is "Theory of edge detection" (David G. Marr, Ellen C. Hildreth, 1980), with 6,259 citations. Next come "Color indexing" (5,627) and "Uncertainty relation for resolution in space, spatial frequency, and orientation optimized by two-dimensional visual cortical filters" (3,235).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 678 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Theory of edge detection David G. Marr, Ellen C. Hildreth · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 29 Feb 1980 | 6,259 |
| 2 | Color indexing Michael J. Swain, Dana H. Ballard · International Journal of Computer Vision | Nov 1991 | 5,627 |
| 3 | Uncertainty relation for resolution in space, spatial frequency, and orientation optimized by two-dimensional visual cortical filters John G. Daugman · Journal of the Optical Society of America A | Jul 1985 | 3,235 |
| 4 | Visual Feature Integration and the Temporal Correlation Hypothesis Wolf Singer, Charles Montgomery Gray · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 1995 | 3,194 |
| 5 | A multiscale retinex for bridging the gap between color images and the human observation of scenes Daniel J. Jobson, Zia Ur Rahman, Glenn A. Woodell · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | Jul 1997 | 3,055 |
| 6 | Color transfer between images Erik Reinhard, M. Adhikhmin, Bryan N S Gooch et al. · IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications | 2001 | 3,016 |
| 7 | Reporting of Objective Color Measurements Raymond G. McGuire · HortScience | Dec 1992 | 2,950 |
| 8 | Properties and performance of a center/surround retinex Daniel J. Jobson, Zia Ur Rahman, Glenn A. Woodell · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | Mar 1997 | 2,339 |
| 9 | Visibility in bad weather from a single image Robby T. Tan | Jun 2008 | 2,312 |
| 10 | The CIEDE2000 color-difference formula: Implementation notes, supplementary test data, and mathematical observations Gaurav Sharma, Wencheng Wu, Edul N. Dalal · Color Research & Application | 2004 | 2,172 |
| 11 | The development of the CIE 2000 colour‐difference formula: CIEDE2000 Ming Ronnier Luo, Guihua Cui, B. Rigg · Color Research & Application | 28 Aug 2001 | 2,101 |
| 12 | Correlated color temperature as an explicit function of chromaticity coordinates Calvin S. McCamy · Color Research & Application | Apr 1992 | 2,069 |
| 13 | Naturalness Preserved Enhancement Algorithm for Non-Uniform Illumination Images Shuhang Wang, Jin Yan Zheng, Hai‐Miao Hu et al. · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | 2 May 2013 | 1,769 |
| 14 | Vision and the Atmosphere Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, Shree K. Nayar · International Journal of Computer Vision | Jul 2002 | 1,729 |
| 15 | A spatial processor model for object colour perception Gershon Buchsbaum · Journal of the Franklin Institute | Jul 1980 | 1,709 |
| 16 | Contour integration by the human visual system: Evidence for a local “association field” David J Field, Anthony J. Hayes, Robert F. Hess · Vision Research | 1993 | 1,646 |
| 17 | Lambertian reflectance and linear subspaces Ronen Basri, David W. C. Jacobs · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Feb 2003 | 1,590 |
| 18 | Representing and Recognizing the Visual Appearance of Materials using Three-dimensional Textons Thomas Leung, Jitendra Malik · International Journal of Computer Vision | Jun 2001 | 1,503 |
| 19 | Kansei Engineering: A new ergonomic consumer-oriented technology for product development Mitsuo Nagamachi · International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics | 1995 | 1,470 |
| 20 | Photographic tone reproduction for digital images Erik Reinhard, Michael M. Stark, Peter Shirley et al. | Jul 2002 | 1,423 |
| 21 | Color Difference Thresholds in Dentistry Rade Dušan Paravina, Razvan Ionut Ghinea, Luis Javier Herrera et al. · Journal of Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry | Mar 2015 | 1,395 |
| 22 | Multichannel texture analysis using localized spatial filters Alan Conrad Bovik, Marianna Clark, Wilson S. Geisler · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 1990 | 1,385 |
| 23 | Reflectance and texture of real-world surfaces Kristin Dana, Bram van Ginneken, Shree K. Nayar et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics | 1999 | 1,335 |
| 24 | The Representation and Matching of Pictorial Structures Martin A. Fischler, R.A. Elschlager · IEEE Transactions on Computers | 1973 | 1,333 |
| 25 | Receptor noise as a determinant of colour thresholds Misha Vorobyev, Daniel Osorio · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 7 Mar 1998 | 1,316 |
| 26 | Surface shape and curvature scales Jan J. Koenderink, Andrea J. van Doorn · Image and Vision Computing | Oct 1992 | 1,251 |
| 27 | Generalized Assorted Pixel Camera: Postcapture Control of Resolution, Dynamic Range, and Spectrum Fumihito Yasuma, Tomoo Mitsunaga, Daisuke Iso et al. · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | 30 Mar 2010 | 1,242 |
| 28 | Efficient Contrast Enhancement Using Adaptive Gamma Correction With Weighting Distribution Shih-Chia Huang, Fan‐Chieh Cheng, Yi-Sheng Chiu · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | 22 Oct 2012 | 1,235 |
| 29 | What Is the Goal of Sensory Coding? David J. Field · Neural Computation | Jul 1994 | 1,230 |
| 30 | Contrast masking in human vision Gordon E. Legge, John Miles Foley · Journal of the Optical Society of America | Dec 1980 | 1,199 |
| 31 | Galaxy Colors in Various Photometric Band Systems M. Fukugita, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Takashi Ichikawa · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Oct 1995 | 1,159 |
| 32 | Neural dynamics of form perception: Boundary completion, illusory figures, and neon color spreading. Stephen Grossberg, Ennio Mingolla · Psychological Review | 1985 | 1,116 |
| 33 | A Weighted Variational Model for Simultaneous Reflectance and Illumination Estimation Xueyang Fu, Delu Zeng, Yue Huang et al. | Jun 2016 | 1,106 |
| 34 | Signal Timing Across the Macaque Visual System MATTHEW T. SCHMOLESKY, Youngchang Wang, Doug P. Hanes et al. · Journal of Neurophysiology | Jun 1998 | 1,076 |
| 35 | Illusory Contours and Cortical Neuron Responses Rudiger von der Heydt, Esther Peterhans, G. Baumgartner · Science | 15 Jun 1984 | 1,074 |
| 36 | The effects of a visual fidelity criterion of the encoding of images James L. Mannos, D. Sakrison · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | Jul 1974 | 1,065 |
| 37 | Perceiving Layout and Knowing Distances James E. Cutting, Peter M. Vishton · Elsevier eBooks | 1995 | 1,027 |
| 38 | Underexposed Photo Enhancement Using Deep Illumination Estimation Ruixing Wang, Qing Zhang, Chi‐Wing Fu et al. | Jun 2019 | 998 |
| 39 | Inkjet-Printed Line Morphologies and Temperature Control of the Coffee Ring Effect Dan Soltman, Vivek Subramanian · Langmuir | 16 Jan 2008 | 990 |
| 40 | Chromaticity diagram showing cone excitation by stimuli of equal luminance Donald I. A. MacLeod, Robert M. Boynton · Journal of the Optical Society of America | Aug 1979 | 975 |
| 41 | Linearity and Normalization in Simple Cells of the Macaque Primary Visual Cortex Matteo Carandini, David J. Heeger, J. Anthony Movshon · Journal of Neuroscience | Nov 1997 | 968 |
| 42 | Preattentive texture discrimination with early vision mechanisms Jitendra Malik, Pietro Perona · Journal of the Optical Society of America A | May 1990 | 965 |
| 43 | Improvement in visual sensitivity by changes in local context: Parallel studies in human observers and in V1 of alert monkeys Mitesh K. Kapadia, Minami Ito, Charles D. Gilbert et al. · Neuron | Oct 1995 | 961 |
| 44 | A survey of shape analysis techniques Sven Lončarić · Pattern Recognition | Aug 1998 | 954 |
| 45 | Statistics of natural images: Scaling in the woods Daniel Ruderman, William Bialek · Physical Review Letters | 8 Aug 1994 | 950 |
| 46 | Contrast in complex images Eli Peli · Annual Meeting Optical Society of America | 1988 | 941 |
| 47 | Edge-Based Color Constancy Joost van de Weijer, T. Gevers, Arjan Gijsenij · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | 22 Aug 2007 | 934 |
| 48 | A survey of skin-color modeling and detection methods P. Kakumanu, Sokratis K. Makrogiannis, N. Bourbakis · Pattern Recognition | 3 Aug 2006 | 933 |
| 49 | Color gamut transform pairs Alvy Ray Smith · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics | 23 Aug 1978 | 927 |
| 50 | Uniformity of monkey striate cortex: A parallel relationship between field size, scatter, and magnification factor David Hunter Hubel, Torsten Nils Wiesel · The Journal of Comparative Neurology | Dec 1974 | 919 |
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