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Technical note: quantitative measures of iris color using high resolution photographs.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Jan 2012
Edwards Melissa, Gozdzik Agnes, Ross Kendra, Miles Jon, Parra Esteban J
Abstract excerpt
Our understanding of the genetic architecture of iris color is still limited. This is partly related to difficulties associated with obtaining quantitative measurements of eye color. Here we introduce a new automated method for measuring iris color using high resolution photographs. This method extracts color measurements in the CIE 1976 L*a*b* (CIELAB) color space from a 256 by 256 pixel square sampled from the...
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