retinex

English

Etymology

Blend of retina +‎ cortex

Noun

retinex (uncountable)

1. (attributive) The retina and the cortex.
   • 2015 August 19, Seungwon Lee, Nahyun Kim, Joonki Paik, “Adaptively partitioned block-based contrast enhancement and its application to low light-level video surveillance”, in SpringerPlus‎^[1], volume 4, →DOI:

     The multi-scale retinex method (Jobson et al. 1997) is also known as the first work or retinex theory-based contrast enhancement method.

Derived terms

• retinex theory