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Overview

Brian V. Funt is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada. Their research spans multiple areas within physics, astronomy, and computer science, with a particular focus on color science and applications. The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including color perception and design, visual perception and processing mechanisms, image enhancement techniques, computer graphics and visualization techniques, industrial vision systems and defect detection, and advanced image fusion techniques.

Their work reflects a multidisciplinary approach that integrates both physical and computational methods. The main fields of study include:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Computer Science

Within these broad areas, their subfields of study concentrate on:

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

Brian V. Funt has published in various venues with recurring contributions particularly to:

  • Color and Imaging Conference
  • Journal of Vision
  • Color Research & Application
  • Sensors
  • Journal of Imaging Science and Technology

The scientist's published papers include:

  • "A multi-illuminant synthetic image test set," 2020, Color Research & Application
  • "Metamer mismatching underlies color difference sensitivity," 2021, Journal of Vision
  • "A Flying Gray Ball Multi-illuminant Image Dataset for Color Research," 2020, Journal of Imaging Science and Technology
  • "Color Sensor Accuracy Index Utilizing Metamer Mismatch Radii," 2020, Sensors
  • "The object-color solid," 2025, Journal of Vision

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Emitis Roshan
  • Xiangpeng Hao
  • A. Logvinenko
  • Pouya Bastani
  • Hoda Aghaei

The focus on color science is reflected in the large number of works dealing with color perception, imaging, and sensor accuracy, as well as related computational techniques for enhancing and analyzing images under varying illumination conditions. Their interdisciplinary research connects physical understanding of optics and molecular physics with computational models relevant to computer vision and graphics.

Best Publications

  • Color constant color indexing

    B.V. Funt;G.D. Finlayson

  • A comparison of computational color constancy algorithms. I: Methodology and experiments with synthesized data

    K. Barnard;V. Cardei;B. Funt

  • Retinex in Matlab.

    Brian V. Funt;Florian Ciurea;John J. McCann

  • Retinex in MATLAB

    Brian V. Funt;Florian Ciurea;John J. McCann

  • A comparison of computational color constancy Algorithms. II. Experiments with image data

    K. Barnard;L. Martin;A. Coath;B. Funt

  • Spectral sharpening: sensor transformations for improved color constancy

    Graham D. Finlayson;Mark S. Drew;Brian V. Funt

  • A data set for color research

    Kobus Barnard;Lindsay Martin;Brian Funt;Adam Coath

  • Is Machine Colour Constancy Good Enough

    Brian V. Funt;Kobus Barnard;Lindsay Martin

  • Problem-solving with diagrammatic representations

    Brian V. Funt

  • Color constancy - Generalized diagonal transforms suffice

    Graham D. Finlayson;Mark S. Drew;Brian V. Funt

  • A Large Image Database for Color Constancy Research

    Florian Ciurea;Brian V. Funt

  • Estimating the scene illumination chromaticity by using a neural network

    Vlad C. Cardei;Brian Funt;Kobus Barnard

  • Camera characterization for color research

    Kobus Barnard;Brian Funt

  • Color Constancy for Scenes with Varying Illumination

    Kobus Barnard;Graham Finlayson;Brian Funt

  • Color constancy from mutual reflection

    Brian V. Funt;Mark S. Drew;Jian Ho

  • Recovering Shading from Color Images

    Brian V. Funt;Mark S. Drew;Michael Brockington

  • Learning Color Constancy

    Brian V. Funt;Vlad C. Cardei;Kobus Barnard

  • Color Angular Indexing

    Graham D. Finlayson;Subho S. Chatterjee;Brian V. Funt

  • Color constancy under varying illumination

    G.D. Finlayson;B.V. Funt;K. Barnard

  • Diagonal transforms suffice for color constancy

    G.D. Finlayson;M.S. Drew;B.V. Funt

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham D. Finlayson
Graham D. Finlayson University of East Anglia
Kobus Barnard
Kobus Barnard University of Arizona
Mark S. Drew
Mark S. Drew Simon Fraser University
Weiming Hu
Weiming Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Simone Bianco
Simone Bianco University of Milano-Bicocca
Ghassan Hamarneh
Ghassan Hamarneh Simon Fraser University
Junliang Xing
Junliang Xing Tsinghua University

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