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In this paper, we propose a novel method for separately estimating spectral distributions from images captured by a typical RGB camera. The proposed method allows us to separately estimate a spectral distribution of illumination,…

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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…

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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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely used for illumination estimation, which is time-consuming and requires sensor-specific data collection. Our proposed method uses a dual-mapping strategy and only requires a simple white point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Shuwei Yue , Minchen Wei

Implementing color constancy as a pre-processing step in contemporary digital cameras is of significant importance as it removes the influence of scene illumination on object colors. Several benchmark color constancy datasets have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Nikola Banić , Karlo Koščević , Marko Subašić , Sven Lončarić

In this paper, we propose a novel multi-color balance method for reducing color distortions caused by lighting effects. The proposed method allows us to adjust three target-colors chosen by a user in an input image so that each target color…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Teruaki Akazawa , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

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

Object detection and semantic segmentation are two of the most widely adopted deep learning algorithms in agricultural applications. One of the major sources of variability in image quality acquired in the outdoors for such tasks is…

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Recent advances in snapshot multispectral (MS) imaging have enabled compact, low-cost spectral sensors for consumer and mobile devices. By capturing richer spectral information than conventional RGB sensors, these systems can enhance key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Luca Cogo , Marco Buzzelli , Simone Bianco , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Raimondo Schettini

Image colorization is inherently an ill-posed problem with multi-modal uncertainty. Previous methods leverage the deep neural network to map input grayscale images to plausible color outputs directly. Although these learning-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Jheng-Wei Su , Hung-Kuo Chu , Jia-Bin Huang

In the field of computer vision, the persistent presence of color bias, resulting from fluctuations in real-world lighting and camera conditions, presents a substantial challenge to the robustness of models. This issue is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yunpeng Gong , Jiaquan Li , Lifei Chen , Min Jiang

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

Image learning and colorization are hot spots in multimedia domain. Inspired by the learning capability of humans, in this paper, we propose an automatic colorization method with a learning framework. This method can be viewed as a hybrid…

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We present a multimodal camera relocalization framework that captures ambiguities and uncertainties with continuous mixture models defined on the manifold of camera poses. In highly ambiguous environments, which can easily arise due to…

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Dermoscopic skin images are often obtained with different imaging devices, under varying acquisition conditions. In this work, instead of attempting to perform intensity and color normalization, we propose to leverage computational color…

We propose a method for automatically answering questions about images by bringing together recent advances from natural language processing and computer vision. We combine discrete reasoning with uncertain predictions by a multi-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Mateusz Malinowski , Mario Fritz

Although remarkable progress has been made, existing methods for enhancing underexposed photos tend to produce visually unpleasing results due to the existence of visual artifacts (e.g., color distortion, loss of details and uneven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Qing Zhang , Yongwei Nie , Lei Zhu , Chunxia Xiao , Wei-Shi Zheng

We present a statistical color constancy method that relies on novel gray pixel detection and mean shift clustering. The method, called Mean Shifted Grey Pixel -- MSGP, is based on the observation: true-gray pixels are aligned towards one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Yanlin Qian , Said Pertuz , Jarno Nikkanen , Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen , Jiri Matas

Image reconstruction methods based on deep neural networks have shown outstanding performance, equalling or exceeding the state-of-the-art results of conventional approaches, but often do not provide uncertainty information about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Riccardo Barbano , Željko Kereta , Chen Zhang , Andreas Hauptmann , Simon Arridge , Bangti Jin

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