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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

Digital camera pipelines employ color constancy methods to estimate an unknown scene illuminant, in order to re-illuminate images as if they were acquired under an achromatic light source. Fully-supervised learning approaches exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Steven McDonagh , Sarah Parisot , Fengwei Zhou , Xing Zhang , Ales Leonardis , Zhenguo Li , Gregory Slabaugh

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

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

Object Detection, a fundamental computer vision problem, has paramount importance in smart camera systems. However, a truly reliable camera system could be achieved if and only if the underlying object detection component is robust enough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ujjal Kr Dutta

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

Computational color constancy has the important task of reducing the influence of the scene illumination on the object colors. As such, it is an essential part of the image processing pipelines of most digital cameras. One of the important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Egor Ershov , Alex Savchik , Illya Semenkov , Nikola Banić , Alexander Belokopytov , Daria Senshina , Karlo Koscević , Marko Subašić , Sven Lončarić

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

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 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

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

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

Color Constancy is the ability of the human visual system to perceive colors unchanged independently of the illumination. Giving a machine this feature will be beneficial in many fields where chromatic information is used. Particularly, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Oleksii Sidorov

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

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

Scene change detection is an image processing problem related to partitioning pixels of a digital image into foreground and background regions. Mostly, visual knowledge-based computer intelligent systems, like traffic monitoring, video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Daniel F. S. Santos , Rafael G. Pires , Danilo Colombo , João P. Papa

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

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

Color constancy (CC) describes the ability of the visual system to perceive an object as having a relatively constant color despite changes in lighting conditions. While CC and its limitations have been carefully characterized in humans, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Markus R. Ernst , Francisco M. López , Arthur Aubret , Roland W. Fleming , Jochen Triesch

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