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In this paper, we propose a novel color constancy approach, called Bag of Color Features (BoCF), building upon Bag-of-Features pooling. The proposed method substantially reduces the number of parameters needed for illumination estimation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Firas Laakom , Nikolaos Passalis , Jenni Raitoharju , Jarno Nikkanen , Anastasios Tefas , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

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

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

The assumption of a uniform light color distribution is no longer applicable in scenes that have multiple light colors.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, 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

Learning-based methods especially with convolutional neural networks (CNN) are continuously showing superior performance in computer vision applications, ranging from image classification to restoration. For image classification, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Xiaoyu Lin

Computational color constancy is a preprocessing step used in many camera systems. The main aim is to discount the effect of the illumination on the colors in the scene and restore the original colors of the objects. Recently, several deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Firas Laakom , Jenni Raitoharju , Alexandros Iosifidis , Jarno Nikkanen , Moncef Gabbouj

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

Existing low-light image enhancement techniques are mostly not only difficult to deal with both visual quality and computational efficiency but also commonly invalid in unknown complex scenarios. In this paper, we develop a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Long Ma , Tengyu Ma , Risheng Liu , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

In recent years, deep learning methods have been successfully applied to single-image super-resolution tasks. Despite their great performances, deep learning methods cannot be easily applied to real-world applications due to the requirement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Namhyuk Ahn , Byungkon Kang , Kyung-Ah Sohn

Images captured under outdoor scenes usually suffer from low contrast and limited visibility due to suspended atmospheric particles, which directly affects the quality of photos. Despite numerous image dehazing methods have been proposed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Chongyi Li , Jichang Guo , Fatih Porikli , Huazhu Fu , Yanwei Pang

Automatic detection of shadow regions in an image is a difficult task due to the lack of prior information about the illumination source and the dynamic of the scene objects. To address this problem, in this paper, a deep-learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Sorour Mohajerani , Parvaneh Saeedi

Estimating continuous optical flow is a fundamental yet challenging problem in dynamic visual perception. Event-based cameras, with microsecond latency and high dynamic range, capture brightness changes asynchronously, offering a unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Rui Hu , Song Wu , Wen Yang , Jinjian Wu

In this paper, we present Point Cloud Color Constancy, in short PCCC, an illumination chromaticity estimation algorithm exploiting a point cloud. We leverage the depth information captured by the time-of-flight (ToF) sensor mounted rigidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Xiaoyan Xing , Yanlin Qian , Sibo Feng , Yuhan Dong , Jiri Matas

Image signal processing (ISP) is crucial for camera imaging, and neural networks (NN) solutions are extensively deployed for daytime scenes. The lack of sufficient nighttime image dataset and insights on nighttime illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Zhihao Li , Si Yi , Zhan Ma

The search for image compression optimization techniques is a topic of constant interest both in and out of academic circles. One method that shows promise toward future improvements in this field is image colorization since image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ian Tassin , Kristen Goebel , Brittany Lasher

In perceptual image coding applications, the main objective is to decrease, as much as possible, Bits Per Pixel (BPP) while avoiding noticeable distortions in the reconstructed image. In this paper, we propose a novel perceptual image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Lee Prangnell , Victor Sanchez

Recent breakthroughs in self-supervised learning show that such algorithms learn visual representations that can be transferred better to unseen tasks than joint-training methods relying on task-specific supervision. In this paper, we found…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Hyuntak Cha , Jaeho Lee , Jinwoo Shin

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…

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