Color estimation base on a giving color estimation PC-based system

A person's clothes color information was estimated by using a prototype PC-based system. The novel concept can be divided into 3 stages. First, space-variant color filter is put onto the lens of the monochrome security camera. Secondly, when a crime takes place, the camera records suspected person. Finally, just after the crime, characteristics of the space-variant color filter are measured by the police, and the color of the clothes of the suspected person is estimated. In this experiment six kind reference color cloth were used. The result shows using this system to estimate the clothes color is easily, rapidly and precisely.