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The image relighting task of transferring illumination conditions between two images offers an interesting and difficult challenge with potential applications in photography, cinematography and computer graphics. In this report we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Alexandre Pierre Dherse , Martin Nicolas Everaert , Jakub Jan Gwizdała

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging involves capturing a series of frames of the same scene, each with different exposure settings, to broaden the dynamic range of light. This can be achieved through burst capturing or using staggered HDR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mahmoud Afifi , Zhenhua Hu , Liang Liang

Images recorded during the lifetime of computer vision based systems undergo a wide range of illumination and environmental conditions affecting the reliability of previously trained machine learning models. Image normalization is hence a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Steve Dias Da Cruz , Bertram Taetz , Thomas Stifter , Didier Stricker

Image matting is a fundamental computer vision problem and has many applications. Previous algorithms have poor performance when an image has similar foreground and background colors or complicated textures. The main reasons are prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Ning Xu , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Thomas Huang

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

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

Illuminant estimation plays a key role in digital camera pipeline system, it aims at reducing color casting effect due to the influence of non-white illuminant. Recent researches handle this task by using Convolution Neural Network (CNN) as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Yongjie Liu , Sijie Shen

The image captioning task is about to generate suitable descriptions from images. For this task there can be several challenges such as accuracy, fluency and diversity. However there are few metrics that can cover all these properties while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chao Zeng , Sam Kwong

As critical visual details become obscured, the low visibility and high ISO noise in extremely low-light images pose a significant challenge to human pose estimation. Current methods fail to provide high-quality representations due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Feng Zhang , Ze Li , Xiatian Zhu , Lei Chen

This paper deals with a challenging, frequently encountered, yet not properly investigated problem in two-frame optical flow estimation. That is, the input frames are compounds of two imaging layers -- one desired background layer of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Jiaolong Yang , Hongdong Li , Yuchao Dai , Robby T. Tan

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

Scene inference under low-light is a challenging problem due to severe noise in the captured images. One way to reduce noise is to use longer exposure during the capture. However, in the presence of motion (scene or camera motion), longer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Bhavya Goyal , Jean-François Lalonde , Yin Li , Mohit Gupta

In this paper, we propose a color to grayscale image conversion algorithm (C2G) that aims to preserve the perceptual properties of the color image as much as possible. To this end, we propose measures for two perceptual properties based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Shaodi You , Nick Barnes , Janine Walker

Imaging in low-light environments is challenging due to reduced scene radiance, which leads to elevated sensor noise and reduced color saturation. Most learning-based low-light enhancement methods rely on paired training data captured under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Maria Pilligua , David Serrano-Lozano , Pai Peng , Ramon Baldrich , Michael S. Brown , Javier Vazquez-Corral

Image colorization estimates RGB colors for grayscale images or video frames to improve their aesthetic and perceptual quality. Over the last decade, deep learning techniques for image colorization have significantly progressed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Saeed Anwar , Muhammad Tahir , Chongyi Li , Ajmal Mian , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Abdul Wahab Muzaffar

Most recent methods of deep image enhancement can be generally classified into two types: decompose-and-enhance and illumination estimation-centric. The former is usually less efficient, and the latter is constrained by a strong assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Xiaomeng Wu , Yongqing Sun , Akisato Kimura

A fundamental problem in computer vision is that of inferring the intrinsic, 3D structure of the world from flat, 2D images of that world. Traditional methods for recovering scene properties such as shape, reflectance, or illumination rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Jonathan T. Barron , Jitendra Malik

We propose a neural network-based solution for three different tracks of 2nd International Illumination Estimation Challenge (chromaticity.iitp.ru). Our method is built on pre-trained Squeeze-Net backbone, differential 2D chroma histogram…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yanlin Qian , Sibo Feng , Kang Qian , Miaofeng Wang

In the beginning stage, face verification is done using easy method of geometric algorithm models, but the verification route has now developed into a scientific progress of complicated geometric representation and identical procedure. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-24 V. Karthikeyan , K. Vijayalakshmi , P. Jeyakumar

Progress in lighting estimation is tracked by computing existing image quality assessment (IQA) metrics on images from standard datasets. While this may appear to be a reasonable approach, we demonstrate that doing so does not correlate to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Justine Giroux , Mohammad Reza Karimi Dastjerdi , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Jean-François Lalonde