SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLOR CORRECTING ELECTRONICALLY CAPTURED IMAGES BY DETERMINING INPUT MEDIA TYPES USING COLOR CORRELATION MATRIX

A system and method for color correcting electronically captured input images utilizes a correlation between the input images and a set of reference images of different media types to determine the media type of the input images. In an exemplary embodiment, the correlation is performed using a media correlation matrix, which includes media characteristic data from the different media types. The media type information of the input images is used to customize the color correction procedure being performed on the input images. The customization of the color correction procedure ensures that the final images are accurate reproduction of the input images with respect calorimetric or perceptual match.