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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

The goal of computational color constancy is to preserve the perceptive colors of objects under different lighting conditions by removing the effect of color casts caused by the scene's illumination. With the rapid development of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Mahmoud Afifi

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

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

Multi-illuminant color constancy methods aim to eliminate local color casts within an image through pixel-wise illuminant estimation. Existing methods mainly employ deep learning to establish a direct mapping between an image and its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hang Luo , Rongwei Li , Jinxing Liang

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

Regressing the illumination of a scene from the representations of object appearances is popularly adopted in computational color constancy. However, it's still challenging due to intrinsic appearance and label ambiguities caused by unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Huanglin Yu , Ke Chen , Kaiqi Wang , Yanlin Qian , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Kui Jia

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

It is an ill-posed problem to recover the true scene colors from a color biased image by discounting the effects of scene illuminant and camera spectral sensitivity (CSS) at the same time. Most color constancy (CC) models have been designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Shao-Bing Gao , Ming Zhang , Chao-Yi Li , Yong-Jie Li

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

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

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

Reliable estimation of illuminant chromaticity is crucial for simulating color constancy and for white balancing digital images. However, estimating illuminant chromaticity from a single image is an ill-posed task, in general, and existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Eytan Lifshitz , Dani Lischinski

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 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

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

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

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

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

This paper introduces a novel method for inter-camera color calibration for multispectral imaging with camera arrays using a consensus image. Capturing images using multispectral camera arrays has gained importance in medical, agricultural,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Katja Kossira , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup