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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010350</journal-id>
      <journal-title>Color and Imaging Conference</journal-title>
      <abbrev-journal-title>color imaging conf</abbrev-journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2166-9635</issn><issn pub-type="epub"/>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society of Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA</publisher-loc>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/CIC.2008.16.1.art00055</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2166-9635(20080101)2008:1L.289;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">cic_v2008n1/splitsection55.xml</article-id>
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          <subject>Articles</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Applying <italic>LabRGB</italic> to Real Multi-Spectral Images</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Nakaya</surname>
            <given-names>Fumio</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Ohta</surname>
            <given-names>Noboru</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>01</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2008</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2008</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>289</fpage>
      <lpage>294</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2008</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>A spectral encoding/decoding method, called LabRGB, was proposed last year [1]. LabRGB consists of six unique base functions and physically meaningful encoding values. LabRGB has several features; color characteristics can be estimated by its encoding values, fixed base functions need
 not exchange beforehand and tri-chromatic images as well as multi-spectral images can be handled by a single form. In this paper, the derivation of LabRGB was described in detail including fast straightforward calculation of encoding/decoding calculation. Then LabRGB was applied to real multi-spectral
 images. LabRGB performed well in encoding/decoding various types of multi-spectral images and confirmed to be suitable for practical use.</p>
      </abstract>
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