Image calibration and analysis toolbox - a free software suite for objectively measuring reflectance, colour and pattern.

ABSTRACT: Quantitative measurements of colour, pattern and morphology are vital to a growing range of disciplines. Digital cameras are readily available and already widely used for making these measurements, having numerous advantages over other techniques, such as spectrometry. However, off-the-shelf consumer cameras are designed to produce images for human viewing, meaning that their uncalibrated photographs cannot be used for making reliable, quantitative measurements. Many studies still fail to appreciate this, and of those scientists who are aware of such issues, many are hindered by a lack of usable tools for making objective measurements from photographs.We have developed an image processing toolbox that generates images that are linear with respect to radiance from the RAW files of numerous

SUBMITTER: Troscianko J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4791150 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature