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Temporal Color Constancy (CC) is a recently proposed approach that challenges the conventional single-frame color constancy. The conventional approach is to use a single frame - shot frame - to estimate the scene illumination color. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Yanlin Qian , Jani Käpylä , Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen , Samu Koskinen , Jiri Matas

The colorful appearance of a physical painting is determined by the distribution of paint pigments across the canvas, which we model as a per-pixel mixture of a small number of pigments with multispectral absorption and scattering…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Jianchao Tan , Stephen DiVerdi , Jingwan Lu , Yotam Gingold

In this study, a novel illuminant color estimation framework is proposed for computational color constancy, which incorporates the high representational capacity of deep-learning-based models and the great interpretability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Jueqin Qiu , Haisong Xu , Zhengnan Ye

Measuring the colorfulness of a natural or virtual scene is critical for many applications in image processing field ranging from capturing to display. In this paper, we propose the first deep learning-based colorfulness estimation metric.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Emin Zerman , Aakanksha Rana , Aljosa Smolic

In this paper, we study the importance of pre-training for the generalization capability in the color constancy problem. We propose two novel approaches based on convolutional autoencoders: an unsupervised pre-training algorithm using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Firas Laakom , Jenni Raitoharju , Alexandros Iosifidis , Jarno Nikkanen , Moncef Gabbouj

We present "Cross-Camera Convolutional Color Constancy" (C5), a learning-based method, trained on images from multiple cameras, that accurately estimates a scene's illuminant color from raw images captured by a new camera previously unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Mahmoud Afifi , Jonathan T. Barron , Chloe LeGendre , Yun-Ta Tsai , Francois Bleibel

A fundamental problem in computer vision is that of inferring the intrinsic, 3D structure of the world from flat, 2D images of that world. Traditional methods for recovering scene properties such as shape, reflectance, or illumination rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Jonathan T. Barron , Jitendra Malik

We present a statistical color constancy method that relies on novel gray pixel detection and mean shift clustering. The method, called Mean Shifted Grey Pixel -- MSGP, is based on the observation: true-gray pixels are aligned towards one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Yanlin Qian , Said Pertuz , Jarno Nikkanen , Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen , Jiri Matas

Dermoscopic skin images are often obtained with different imaging devices, under varying acquisition conditions. In this work, instead of attempting to perform intensity and color normalization, we propose to leverage computational color…

In natural image matting, the goal is to estimate the opacity of the foreground object in the image. This opacity controls the way the foreground and background is blended in transparent regions. In recent years, advances in deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Sebastian Lutz , Aljosa Smolic

Given a grayscale photograph as input, this paper attacks the problem of hallucinating a plausible color version of the photograph. This problem is clearly underconstrained, so previous approaches have either relied on significant user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Richard Zhang , Phillip Isola , Alexei A. Efros

In this paper, we formulate the color constancy task as an image-to-image translation problem using GANs. By conducting a large set of experiments on different datasets, an experimental survey is provided on the use of different types of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Partha Das , Anil S. Baslamisli , Yang Liu , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

We present a method to separate a single image captured under two illuminants, with different spectra, into the two images corresponding to the appearance of the scene under each individual illuminant. We do this by training a deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Zhuo Hui , Ayan Chakrabarti , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

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

In this paper, the aim is multi-illumination color constancy. However, most of the existing color constancy methods are designed for single light sources. Furthermore, datasets for learning multiple illumination color constancy are largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Partha Das , Yang Liu , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

Image colorization is inherently an ill-posed problem with multi-modal uncertainty. Previous methods leverage the deep neural network to map input grayscale images to plausible color outputs directly. Although these learning-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Jheng-Wei Su , Hung-Kuo Chu , Jia-Bin Huang

Color constancy methods often struggle to generalize across different camera sensors due to varying spectral sensitivities. We present GCC, which leverages diffusion models to inpaint color checkers into images for illumination estimation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chen-Wei Chang , Cheng-De Fan , Chia-Che Chang , Yi-Chen Lo , Yu-Chee Tseng , Jiun-Long Huang , Yu-Lun Liu

In this paper, we provide a novel dataset designed for camera invariant color constancy research. Camera invariance corresponds to the robustness of an algorithm's performance when run on images of the same scene taken by different cameras.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Caglar Aytekin , Jarno Nikkanen , Moncef Gabbouj

Computational color constancy is a preprocessing step used in many camera systems. The main aim is to discount the effect of the illumination on the colors in the scene and restore the original colors of the objects. Recently, several deep…

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

Implementing color constancy as a pre-processing step in contemporary digital cameras is of significant importance as it removes the influence of scene illumination on object colors. Several benchmark color constancy datasets have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Nikola Banić , Karlo Koščević , Marko Subašić , Sven Lončarić