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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

Color constancy is a fundamental ability of many biological visual systems and a crucial step in computer imaging systems. Bio-inspired modeling offers a promising way to elucidate the computational principles underlying color constancy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Kai-Fu Yang , Fu-Ya Luo , Yong-Jie Li

Illumination estimation is the essential step of computational color constancy, one of the core parts of various image processing pipelines of modern digital cameras. Having an accurate and reliable illumination estimation is important for…

Color constancy (CC) describes the ability of the visual system to perceive an object as having a relatively constant color despite changes in lighting conditions. While CC and its limitations have been carefully characterized in humans, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Markus R. Ernst , Francisco M. López , Arthur Aubret , Roland W. Fleming , Jochen Triesch

Digital camera pipelines employ color constancy methods to estimate an unknown scene illuminant, in order to re-illuminate images as if they were acquired under an achromatic light source. Fully-supervised learning approaches exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Steven McDonagh , Sarah Parisot , Fengwei Zhou , Xing Zhang , Ales Leonardis , Zhenguo Li , Gregory Slabaugh

Computational Colour Constancy (CCC) consists of estimating the colour of one or more illuminants in a scene and using them to remove unwanted chromatic distortions. Much research has focused on illuminant estimation for CCC on single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Matteo Rizzo , Cristina Conati , Daesik Jang , Hui Hu

As a novel method eliminating chromatic aberration on objects, computational color constancy has becoming a fundamental prerequisite for many computer vision applications. Among algorithms performing this task, the learning-based ones have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yilang Zhang , Neal N. Xiong , Zheng Wei , Xin Yuan , Jian Wang

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 paper, we present CLCC, a novel contrastive learning framework for color constancy. Contrastive learning has been applied for learning high-quality visual representations for image classification. One key aspect to yield useful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Yi-Chen Lo , Chia-Che Chang , Hsuan-Chao Chiu , Yu-Hao Huang , Chia-Ping Chen , Yu-Lin Chang , Kevin Jou

Computational color constancy that requires esti- mation of illuminant colors of images is a fundamental yet active problem in computer vision, which can be formulated into a regression problem. To learn a robust regressor for color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Yanlin Qian , Ke Chen , Joni-Kristian Kamarainen , Jarno Nikkanen , Jiri Matas

Computational color constancy has the important task of reducing the influence of the scene illumination on the object colors. As such, it is an essential part of the image processing pipelines of most digital cameras. One of the important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Egor Ershov , Alex Savchik , Illya Semenkov , Nikola Banić , Alexander Belokopytov , Daria Senshina , Karlo Koscević , Marko Subašić , Sven Lončarić

Color Constancy is the ability of the human visual system to perceive colors unchanged independently of the illumination. Giving a machine this feature will be beneficial in many fields where chromatic information is used. Particularly, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Oleksii Sidorov

A statistical learning/inference framework for color demosaicing is presented. We start with simplistic assumptions about color constancy, and recast color demosaicing as a blind linear inverse problem: color parameterizes the unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-02-12 J. H. Oaknin

Computational color constancy, or white balancing, is a key module in a camera's image signal processor (ISP) that corrects color casts from scene lighting. Because this operation occurs in the camera-specific raw color space, white balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Dongyoung Kim , Mahmoud Afifi , Dongyun Kim , Michael S. Brown , Seon Joo Kim

We present Fast Fourier Color Constancy (FFCC), a color constancy algorithm which solves illuminant estimation by reducing it to a spatial localization task on a torus. By operating in the frequency domain, FFCC produces lower error rates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Jonathan T. Barron , Yun-Ta Tsai

In this paper, a learning-free color constancy algorithm called the Patch-wise Bright Pixels (PBP) is proposed. In this algorithm, an input image is first downsampled and then cut equally into a few patches. After that, according to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Yiyao Shi , Jian Wang , Xiangyang Xue

Light plays a vital role in vision either human or machine vision, the perceived color is always based on the lighting conditions of the surroundings. Researchers are working to enhance the color detection techniques for the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Nizamuddin Maitlo , Nooruddin Noonari , Sajid Ahmed Ghanghro , Sathishkumar Duraisamy , Fayaz Ahmed

Color constancy (CC) is an important ability of the human visual system to stably perceive the colors of objects despite considerable changes in the color of the light illuminating them. While increasing evidence from the field of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-11 Shaobing Gao , Yongjie Li

In this paper, we propose a novel color constancy approach, called Bag of Color Features (BoCF), building upon Bag-of-Features pooling. The proposed method substantially reduces the number of parameters needed for illumination estimation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Firas Laakom , Nikolaos Passalis , Jenni Raitoharju , Jarno Nikkanen , Anastasios Tefas , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

In this paper we present a deep learning method to estimate the illuminant of an image. Our model is not trained with illuminant annotations, but with the objective of improving performance on an auxiliary task such as object recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Marco Buzzelli , Joost van de Weijer , Raimondo Schettini