Digital Still Camera color processing links
Spectral sensitivity estimation:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~kobus/research/publications/camera_characterization/index.html
http://www-sig.enst.fr/publications/Hardeberg/eicp98-abstract.html
http://ise.stanford.edu/class/psych221/99/fxiao/
Non-linear RGB to XYZ transform:
http://www-ise.stanford.edu/class/psych221/00/wilburn/index.html
Digital camera design chapter:
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~stone/pubs/Book/Holm/DSC_Color_Processing.pdf
Spectral database:
http://cs.joensuu.fi/~spectral/databases/index.html 
Independent component analysis:
Tae Won Lee's group: http://www.cnl.salk.edu/~tewon/ica_cnl.html
Tony Bell's papers: http://www.cnl.salk.edu/~tony/ica.html
Image processing theory:
UCSD digital signal processing lab: http://dsp.ucsd.edu/
Image compression, image quality:
Pamela Cosman UCSD: http://www.code.ucsd.edu/~pcosman/
Longere et al: http://color.psych.upenn.edu/depreference/index.html