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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 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

While generative adversarial networks (GANs) can successfully produce high-quality images, they can be challenging to control. Simplifying GAN-based image generation is critical for their adoption in graphic design and artistic work. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Mahmoud Afifi , Marcus A. Brubaker , Michael S. Brown

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

In this paper, we revisit the Image-to-Image (I2I) translation problem with transition consistency, namely the consistency defined on the conditional data mapping between each data pairs. Explicitly parameterizing each data mappings with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Yaxin Shi , Xiaowei Zhou , Ping Liu , Ivor Tsang

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

Image to image translation is an active area of research in the field of computer vision, enabling the generation of new images with different styles, textures, or resolutions while preserving their characteristic properties. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Gaurav Kumar , Soham Satyadharma , Harpreet Singh

Over the last decade, the process of automatic image colorization has been of significant interest for several application areas including restoration of aged or degraded images. This problem is highly ill-posed due to the large degrees of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Kamyar Nazeri , Eric Ng , Mehran Ebrahimi

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

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

Image compression using colour densities is historically impractical to decompress losslessly. We examine the use of conditional generative adversarial networks in making this transformation more feasible, through learning a mapping between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Arun Jose , Abraham Francis

Computational color constancy is a very important topic in computer vision and has attracted many researchers' attention. Recently, lots of research has shown the effects of high level visual content information for illumination estimation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-09 Bing Li , Weihua Xiong , Weiming Hu

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

Unpaired image-to-image translation is the problem of mapping an image in the source domain to one in the target domain, without requiring corresponding image pairs. To ensure the translated images are realistically plausible, recent works,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Anoop Cherian , Alan Sullivan

We previously investigated color constancy in photorealistic virtual reality (VR) and developed a Deep Neural Network (DNN) that predicts reflectance from rendered images. Here, we combine both approaches to compare and study a model and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Hamed Heidari-Gorji , Raquel Gil Rodriguez , Karl R. Gegenfurtner

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

This paper investigates an open research task of text-to-image synthesis for automatically generating or manipulating images from text descriptions. Prevailing methods mainly use the text as conditions for GAN generation, and train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chunyan Miao

Cross-contrast image translation is an important task for completing missing contrasts in clinical diagnosis. However, most existing methods learn separate translator for each pair of contrasts, which is inefficient due to many possible…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Heran Yang , Jian Sun , Liwei Yang , Zongben Xu

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

Colorization is an ambiguous problem, with multiple viable colorizations for a single grey-level image. However, previous methods only produce the single most probable colorization. Our goal is to model the diversity intrinsic to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Aditya Deshpande , Jiajun Lu , Mao-Chuang Yeh , Min Jin Chong , David Forsyth