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Relative colour constancy is an essential requirement for many scientific imaging applications. However, most digital cameras differ in their image formations and native sensor output is usually inaccessible, e.g., in smartphone camera…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Yunfeng Zhao , Stuart Ferguson , Huiyu Zhou , Chris Elliott , Karen Rafferty

Color and intensity are two important components in an image. Usually, groups of image pixels, which are similar in color or intensity, are an informative representation for an object. They are therefore particularly suitable for computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Guanjun Guo , Hanzi Wang , Wan-Lei Zhao , Yan Yan , Xuelong Li

Color constancy is our ability to perceive constant colors across varying illuminations. Here, we trained deep neural networks to be color constant and evaluated their performance with varying cues. Inputs to the networks consisted of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Alban Flachot , Arash Akbarinia , Heiko H. Schütt , Roland W. Fleming , Felix A. Wichmann , Karl R. Gegenfurtner

We present a method to estimate the direction and color of the scene light source from a single image. Our method is based on two main ideas: (a) we use a new synthetic dataset with strong shadow effects with similar constraints to the SID…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Hassan A. Sial , Ramon Baldrich , Maria Vanrell , Dimitris Samaras

Automatic colorization of gray images with objects of different colors and sizes is challenging due to inter- and intra-object color variation and the small area of the main objects due to extensive backgrounds. The learning process often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Mrityunjoy Gain , Avi Deb Raha , Rameswar Debnath

We address the problem of decomposing a single image into reflectance and shading. The difficulty comes from the fact that the components of image---the surface albedo, the direct illumination, and the ambient illumination---are coupled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Yuanliu Liu , Ang Li , Zejian Yuan , Badong Chen , Nanning Zheng

This paper addresses the task of estimating the light arriving from all directions to a 3D point observed at a selected pixel in an RGB image. This task is challenging because it requires predicting a mapping from a partial scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Shuran Song , Thomas Funkhouser

A color image contains luminance and chrominance components representing the intensity and color information respectively. The objective of the work presented in this paper is to show the significance of incorporating the chrominance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-01 V. Sowmya , D. Govind , K. P. Soman

Image colorization is the process of colorizing grayscale images or recoloring an already-color image. This image manipulation can be used for grayscale satellite, medical and historical images making them more expressive. With the help of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ahmed Samir Ragab , Shereen Aly Taie , Howida Youssry Abdelnaby

We present a collection of 24 multiple object scenes each recorded under 18 multiple light source illumination scenarios. The illuminants are varying in dominant spectral colours, intensity and distance from the scene. We mainly address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Anna Smagina , Egor Ershov , Anton Grigoryev

To achieve visual consistency in composite images, recent image harmonization methods typically summarize the appearance pattern of global background and apply it to the global foreground without location discrepancy. However, for a real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Ziyue Zhu , Zhao Zhang , Zheng Lin , Ruiqi Wu , Zhi Chai , Chun-Le Guo

Image colorization achieves more and more realistic results with the increasing computation power of recent deep learning techniques. It becomes more difficult to identify the fake colorized images by human eyes. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Weize Quan , Dong-Ming Yan , Kai Wang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Denis Pellerin

Image forensics, aiming to ensure the authenticity of the image, has made great progress in dealing with common image manipulation such as copy-move, splicing, and inpainting in the past decades. However, only a few researchers pay…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yushu Zhang , Nuo Chen , Shuren Qi , Mingfu Xue , Xiaochun Cao

Image harmonization aims to adjust the foreground illumination in a composite image to make it harmonious. The existing harmonization methods can only produce one deterministic result for a composite image, ignoring that a composite image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Xinhao Tao , Tianyuan Qiu , Junyan Cao , Li Niu

In any computer vision task involving color images, a necessary step is classifying pixels according to color and segmenting the respective areas. However, the development of methods able to successfully complete this task has proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Laura Nicolás-Sáenz , Agapito Ledezma , Javier Pascau , Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia

This paper tackles the challenge of colorizing grayscale images. We take a deep convolutional neural network approach, and choose to take the angle of classification, working on a finite set of possible colors. Similarly to a recent paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Vincent Billaut , Matthieu de Rochemonteix , Marc Thibault

In this paper we present a new camera calibration method aimed at finding a straight-line locus, in a special colour feature space, that is traversed by daylights and as well also approximately followed by specular points. The aim of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Mark S. Drew , Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze , Graham D. Finlayson

Image colorization, the task of adding colors to grayscale images, has been the focus of significant research efforts in computer vision in recent years for its various application areas such as color restoration and automatic animation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Changyuan Qiu , Hangrui Cao , Qihan Ren , Ruiyu Li , Yuqing Qiu

Non-uniform and multi-illuminant color constancy are important tasks, the solution of which will allow to discard information about lighting conditions in the image. Non-uniform illumination and shadows distort colors of real-world objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Oleksii Sidorov

While many image colorization algorithms have recently shown the capability of producing plausible color versions from gray-scale photographs, they still suffer from the problems of context confusion and edge color bleeding. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Jiaojiao Zhao , Li Liu , Cees G. M. Snoek , Jungong Han , Ling Shao