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Computational color constancy refers to the problem of computing the illuminant color so that the images of a scene under varying illumination can be normalized to an image under the canonical illumination. In this paper, we adopt a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Seoung Wug Oh , Seon Joo Kim

This paper introduces a novel method for inter-camera color calibration for multispectral imaging with camera arrays using a consensus image. Capturing images using multispectral camera arrays has gained importance in medical, agricultural,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Katja Kossira , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Auto white balance (AWB) is applied by camera hardware at capture time to remove the color cast caused by the scene illumination. The vast majority of white-balance algorithms assume a single light source illuminates the scene; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Mahmoud Afifi , Marcus A. Brubaker , Michael S. Brown

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

Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely used to solve the illuminant estimation problem and have often led to state-of-the-art results. Standard approaches operate directly on the input image. In this paper, we argue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Firas Laakom , Jenni Raitoharju , Jarno Nikkanen , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

Regressing the illumination of a scene from the representations of object appearances is popularly adopted in computational color constancy. However, it's still challenging due to intrinsic appearance and label ambiguities caused by unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Huanglin Yu , Ke Chen , Kaiqi Wang , Yanlin Qian , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Kui Jia

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

Computational color constancy that requires esti- mation of illuminant colors of images is a fundamental yet active problem in computer vision, which can be formulated into a regression problem. To learn a robust regressor for color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Yanlin Qian , Ke Chen , Joni-Kristian Kamarainen , Jarno Nikkanen , Jiri Matas

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

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

Advances in high dynamic range (HDR) lighting estimation from a single image have opened new possibilities for augmented reality (AR) applications. Predicting complex lighting environments from a single input image allows for the realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zitian Zhang , Joshua Urban Davis , Jeanne Phuong Anh Vu , Jiangtao Kuang , Jean-François Lalonde

We present "Cross-Camera Convolutional Color Constancy" (C5), a learning-based method, trained on images from multiple cameras, that accurately estimates a scene's illuminant color from raw images captured by a new camera previously unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Mahmoud Afifi , Jonathan T. Barron , Chloe LeGendre , Yun-Ta Tsai , Francois Bleibel

Computational color constancy is a very important topic in computer vision and has attracted many researchers' attention. Recently, lots of research has shown the effects of high level visual content information for illumination estimation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-09 Bing Li , Weihua Xiong , Weiming Hu

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

Automatic colorization of gray images with objects of different colors and sizes is challenging due to inter- and intra-object color variation and the small area of the main objects due to extensive backgrounds. The learning process often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Mrityunjoy Gain , Avi Deb Raha , Rameswar Debnath

In this paper, we present CLCC, a novel contrastive learning framework for color constancy. Contrastive learning has been applied for learning high-quality visual representations for image classification. One key aspect to yield useful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Yi-Chen Lo , Chia-Che Chang , Hsuan-Chao Chiu , Yu-Hao Huang , Chia-Ping Chen , Yu-Lin Chang , Kevin Jou

Diffusion models have shown great promise in synthesizing visually appealing images. However, it remains challenging to condition the synthesis at a fine-grained level, for instance, synthesizing image pixels following some generic color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ka Chun Shum , Binh-Son Hua , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Sai-Kit Yeung

Image harmonization aims to adjust the foreground illumination in a composite image to make it harmonious. The existing harmonization methods can only produce one deterministic result for a composite image, ignoring that a composite image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Xinhao Tao , Tianyuan Qiu , Junyan Cao , Li Niu

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

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