Color-to-grayscale: does the method matter in image recognition?

In image recognition it is often assumed the method used to convert color images to grayscale has little impact on recognition performance. We compare thirteen different grayscale algorithms with four types of image descriptors and demonstrate that this assumption is wrong: not all color-to-grayscal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Christopher Kanan, Garrison W Cottrell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3254613?pdf=render