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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

Non-uniform and multi-illuminant color constancy are important tasks, the solution of which will allow to discard information about lighting conditions in the image. Non-uniform illumination and shadows distort colors of real-world objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Oleksii Sidorov

In this paper, we propose a novel template matching method with a white balancing adjustment, called N-white balancing, which was proposed for multi-illuminant scenes. To reduce the influence of lighting effects, N-white balancing is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Teruaki Akazawa , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

Digital camera pipelines employ color constancy methods to estimate an unknown scene illuminant, in order to re-illuminate images as if they were acquired under an achromatic light source. Fully-supervised learning approaches exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Steven McDonagh , Sarah Parisot , Fengwei Zhou , Xing Zhang , Ales Leonardis , Zhenguo Li , Gregory Slabaugh

We present a CNN-based technique to estimate high-dynamic range outdoor illumination from a single low dynamic range image. To train the CNN, we leverage a large dataset of outdoor panoramas. We fit a low-dimensional physically-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Sunil Hadap , Emiliano Gambaretto , Jean-François Lalonde

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

In this paper we present a deep learning method to estimate the illuminant of an image. Our model is not trained with illuminant annotations, but with the objective of improving performance on an auxiliary task such as object recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Marco Buzzelli , Joost van de Weijer , Raimondo Schettini

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

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

We propose a real-time method to estimate spatiallyvarying indoor lighting from a single RGB image. Given an image and a 2D location in that image, our CNN estimates a 5th order spherical harmonic representation of the lighting at the given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Mathieu Garon , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Sunil Hadap , Nathan Carr , Jean-François Lalonde

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

We propose a novel learning method to rectify document images with various distortion types from a single input image. As opposed to previous learning-based methods, our approach seeks to first learn the distortion flow on input image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Xiaoyu Li , Bo Zhang , Jing Liao , Pedro V. Sander

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

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

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

ColorCheckers are reference standards that professional photographers and filmmakers use to ensure predictable results under every lighting condition. The objective of this work is to propose a new fast and robust method for automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Fidel A. Guerrero-Peña , Tsang Ing Ren , Jorge J. G. Leandro

Information about the illuminant color is well contained in both achromatic regions and the specular components of highlight regions. In this paper, we propose a novel way to achieve color constancy by exploiting such clues. The key to our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Huan Lei , Guang Jiang , Long Quan

This paper presents a process for estimating the spatially varying surface reflectance of complex scenes observed under natural illumination. In contrast to previous methods, our process is not limited to scenes viewed under controlled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Alen Joy , Charalambos Poullis

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

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