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Most digital camera pipelines use color constancy methods to reduce the influence of illumination and camera sensor on the colors of scene objects. The highest accuracy of color correction is obtained with learning-based color constancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Nikola Banić , Karlo Koščević , Sven Lončarić

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

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

Information about the illuminant color is well contained in both achromatic regions and the specular components of highlight regions. In this paper, we propose a novel way to achieve color constancy by exploiting such clues. The key to our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Huan Lei , Guang Jiang , Long Quan

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

The assumption of a uniform light color distribution is no longer applicable in scenes that have multiple light colors. Most color constancy methods are designed to deal with a single light color, and thus are erroneous when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Shuwei Li , Jikai Wang , Michael S. Brown , Robby T. Tan

In the image processing pipeline of almost every digital camera there is a part dedicated to computational color constancy i.e. to removing the influence of illumination on the colors of the image scene. Some of the best known illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Nikola Banić , Sven Lončarić

In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised color constancy method, called Probabilistic Color Constancy (PCC). We define a framework for estimating the illumination of a scene by weighting the contribution of different image regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Firas Laakom , Jenni Raitoharju , Alexandros Iosifidis , Uygar Tuna , Jarno Nikkanen , 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In this paper, we propose a novel multi-color balance adjustment for color constancy. The proposed method, called "n-color balancing," allows us not only to perfectly correct n target colors on the basis of corresponding ground truth colors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Teruaki Akazawa , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

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

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…

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

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