1. A method of automatic object detection in video comprising: receiving a video signal at a video input, the video signal including objects lit under varying lighting conditions; measuring a color of a reference area within the video signal; providing the measured color as a color reference input to a color processor; and adjusting a color signal of data generated from the video signal using the measured color by accepting from a user a first weighting value of how locally or globally to apply the measured color, by accepting from the user a second weighting value of how much to apply a spatial surround filter to data generated from the video signal, and by allowing the user to control how much effect to apply to the data generated from the video signal based on the first weighting value and the second weighting value.