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The acquisition of accurately coloured, balanced images in an optical microscope can be a challenge even for experienced microscope operators. This article presents an entirely automatic mechanism for balancing the white level that allows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Radoslaw Roszczyk , Artur Krupa , Izabella Antoniuk

Illumination estimation is often used in mixed reality to re-render a scene from another point of view, to change the color/texture of an object, or to insert a virtual object consistently lit into a real video or photograph. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Grégoire Nieto , Salma Jiddi , Philippe Robert

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in low-light image enhancement (LLIE) due to its importance for critical downstream tasks. Current Retinex-based methods and learning-based approaches have shown significant LLIE…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yasin Demir , Nur Hüseyin Kaplan , Sefa Kucuk , Nagihan Severoglu

Most of the recent literature on image Super-Resolution (SR) can be classified into two main approaches. The first one involves learning a corruption model tailored to a specific dataset, aiming to mimic the noise and corruption in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-27 Zakariya Chaouai , Mohamed Tamaazousti

Contemporary approaches frame the color constancy problem as learning camera specific illuminant mappings. While high accuracy can be achieved on camera specific data, these models depend on camera spectral sensitivity and typically exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Daniel Hernandez-Juarez , Sarah Parisot , Benjamin Busam , Ales Leonardis , Gregory Slabaugh , Steven McDonagh

We propose a simple yet effective neural network-based framework for global illumination rendering. Recently, rendering techniques that learn neural radiance caches by minimizing the difference (i.e., residual) between the left and right…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 In-Young Cho , Jaewoong Cho

Global illumination combines direct and indirect lighting to create realistic lighting effects, bringing virtual scenes closer to reality. Static global illumination is a crucial component of virtual scene rendering, leveraging…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Junke Zhu , Zehan Wu , Qixing Zhang , Cheng Liao , Zhangjin Huang

Advances in high dynamic range (HDR) lighting estimation from a single image have opened new possibilities for augmented reality (AR) applications. Predicting complex lighting environments from a single input image allows for the realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zitian Zhang , Joshua Urban Davis , Jeanne Phuong Anh Vu , Jiangtao Kuang , Jean-François Lalonde

Most scenes are illuminated by several light sources, where the traditional assumption of uniform illumination is invalid. This issue is ignored in most color constancy methods, primarily due to the complex spatial impact of multiple light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Umut Cem Entok , Firas Laakom , Farhad Pakdaman , Moncef Gabbouj

Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely used to solve the illuminant estimation problem and have often led to state-of-the-art results. Standard approaches operate directly on the input image. In this paper, we argue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Firas Laakom , Jenni Raitoharju , Jarno Nikkanen , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

In this work we describe a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to accurately predict the scene illumination. Taking image patches as input, the CNN works in the spatial domain without using hand-crafted features that are employed by most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Simone Bianco , Claudio Cusano , Raimondo Schettini

This paper presents a new color image enhancement technique based on modified MultiScale Retinex(MSR) algorithm and visual quality of the enhanced images are evaluated using a new metric, namely, wavelet energy. The color image enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-24 M. C Hanumantharaju , M. Ravishankar , D. R Rameshbabu

Running time of the light field depth estimation algorithms is typically high. This assessment is based on the computational complexity of existing methods and the large amounts of data involved. The aim of our work is to develop a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Yuriy Anisimov , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker

Illuminant estimation aims to infer scene illumination from image measurements despite intrinsic ambiguities between surface reflectance and lighting. Most existing methods operate on trichromatic RGB images and are therefore fundamentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 G. Dofri Vidarsson , Liying Lu , Sabine Süsstrunk

Low-light images often suffer from noise and color distortion. Object detection, semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, and other tasks are challenging when working with low-light images because of image noise and chromatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xiaochun Lei , Weiliang Mai , Junlin Xie , He Liu , Zetao Jiang , Zhaoting Gong , Chang Lu , Linjun Lu

Computational color constancy refers to the estimation of the scene illumination and makes the perceived color relatively stable under varying illumination. In the past few years, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have delivered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Jun Zhang , Tong Zheng , Shengping Zhang , Meng Wang

Noise, artifacts, and over-exposure are significant challenges in the field of low-light image enhancement. Existing methods often struggle to address these issues simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a novel Retinex-based method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yu Wang , Yihong Wang , Tong Liu , Xiubao Sui , Qian Chen

Inferring the scene illumination from a single image is an essential yet challenging task in computer vision and computer graphics. Existing works estimate lighting by regressing representative illumination parameters or generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Fangneng Zhan , Yingchen Yu , Changgong Zhang , Rongliang Wu , Wenbo Hu , Shijian Lu , Feiying Ma , Xuansong Xie , Ling Shao

Images captured under low-light conditions are often plagued by several challenges, including diminished contrast, increased noise, loss of fine details, and unnatural color reproduction. These factors can significantly hinder the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Miao Zhang , Yiqing Shen , Shenghui Zhong

Randomized Smoothing (RS) is a prominent technique for certifying the robustness of neural networks against adversarial perturbations. With RS, achieving high accuracy at small radii requires a small noise variance, while achieving high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chenhao Sun , Yuhao Mao , Martin Vechev