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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

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

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

As a novel method eliminating chromatic aberration on objects, computational color constancy has becoming a fundamental prerequisite for many computer vision applications. Among algorithms performing this task, the learning-based ones have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yilang Zhang , Neal N. Xiong , Zheng Wei , Xin Yuan , Jian Wang

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

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 refers to the estimation of the scene illumination and makes the perceived color relatively stable under varying illumination. In the past few years, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have delivered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Jun Zhang , Tong Zheng , Shengping Zhang , Meng Wang

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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 formulate the color constancy task as an image-to-image translation problem using GANs. By conducting a large set of experiments on different datasets, an experimental survey is provided on the use of different types of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Partha Das , Anil S. Baslamisli , Yang Liu , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

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

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

This paper proposes probabilistic conformal prediction (PCP), a predictive inference algorithm that estimates a target variable by a discontinuous predictive set. Given inputs, PCP construct the predictive set based on random samples from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-22 Zhendong Wang , Ruijiang Gao , Mingzhang Yin , Mingyuan Zhou , David M. Blei