Face Tracking Using the Dynamic Grey World Algorithm

In this paper we present a colour constancy algorithm for real-time face tracking. It is based on a modification of the well known Grey World algorithm in order to use the redundant information available in an image sequence. In the experiments conducted it is clearly more robust to sudden illuminant colour changes than popular the rg-normalised algorithm.

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