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Cameras rely on auto white balance (AWB) to correct undesirable color casts caused by scene illumination and the camera's spectral sensitivity. This is typically achieved using an illuminant estimator that determines the global color cast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Mahmoud Afifi , Luxi Zhao , Abhijith Punnappurath , Mohammed A. Abdelsalam , Ran Zhang , Michael S. Brown

Auto-white balance (AWB) correction is a critical operation in image signal processors for accurate and consistent color correction across various illumination scenarios. This paper presents a novel and efficient AWB correction method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Furkan Kınlı , Doğa Yılmaz , Barış Özcan , Furkan Kıraç

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

White balance (WB) is one of the first photo-finishing steps used to render a captured image to its final output. WB is applied to remove the color cast caused by the scene's illumination. Interactive photo-editing software allows users to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Mahmoud Afifi , Michael S. Brown

Automatic white balancing (AWB), one of the first steps in an integrated signal processing (ISP) pipeline, aims to correct the color cast induced by the scene illuminant. An incorrect white balance (WB) setting or AWB failure can lead to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Sai Kumar Reddy Manne , Michael Wan

White balance (WB) is a key step in the image signal processor (ISP) pipeline that mitigates color casts caused by varying illumination and restores the scene's true colors. Currently, sRGB-based WB editing for post-ISP WB correction is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Yang Cheng , Ziteng Cui , Shenghan Su , Lin Gu , Zenghui Zhang

White balance (WB) algorithms in many commercial cameras assume single and uniform illumination, leading to undesirable results when multiple lighting sources with different chromaticities exist in the scene. Prior research on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Dongyoung Kim , Jinwoo Kim , Junsang Yu , Seon Joo Kim

Style may refer to different concepts (e.g. painting style, hairstyle, texture, color, filter, etc.) depending on how the feature space is formed. In this work, we propose a novel idea of interpreting the lighting in the single- and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Furkan Kınlı , Doğa Yılmaz , Barış Özcan , Furkan Kıraç

This thesis presents methods and approaches to image color correction, color enhancement, and color editing. To begin, we study the color correction problem from the standpoint of the camera's image signal processor (ISP). A camera's ISP is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Mahmoud Afifi

Nighttime color constancy still remains a challenging problem in computational photography due to low-light noise and complex illumination conditions. We present RL-AWB, a novel framework combining statistical methods with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yuan-Kang Lee , Kuan-Lin Chen , Chia-Che Chang , Yu-Lun Liu

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

In a surround view system, the image color and tone captured by multiple cameras can be different due to cameras applying auto white balance (AWB), global tone mapping (GTM) individually for each camera. The color and brightness along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yuzhuo Ren , Yining Deng , David Pajak , Robin Jenkin , Niranjan Avadhanam , Varsha Hedau

White balance (WB) correction in scenes with multiple illuminants remains a persistent challenge in computer vision. Recent methods explored fusion-based approaches, where a neural network linearly blends multiple sRGB versions of an input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 David Serrano-Lozano , Aditya Arora , Luis Herranz , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Michael S. Brown , Javier Vazquez-Corral

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

Contemporary approaches frame the color constancy problem as learning camera specific illuminant mappings. While high accuracy can be achieved on camera specific data, these models depend on camera spectral sensitivity and typically exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Daniel Hernandez-Juarez , Sarah Parisot , Benjamin Busam , Ales Leonardis , Gregory Slabaugh , Steven McDonagh

Consumer-grade camera systems often struggle to maintain stable image quality under complex illumination conditions such as low light, high dynamic range, and backlighting, as well as spatial color temperature variation. These issues lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Fuchen Li , Yansong Du , Wenbo Cheng , Xiaoxia Zhou , Sen Yin

Traditional auto white balance (AWB) algorithms typically assume a single global illuminant source, which leads to color distortions in multi-illuminant scenes. While recent neural network-based methods have shown excellent accuracy in such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-07 Wenjun Wei , Yanlin Qian , Huaian Chen , Junkang Dai , Yi Jin

Relative colour constancy is an essential requirement for many scientific imaging applications. However, most digital cameras differ in their image formations and native sensor output is usually inaccessible, e.g., in smartphone camera…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Yunfeng Zhao , Stuart Ferguson , Huiyu Zhou , Chris Elliott , Karen Rafferty

Most digital camera pipelines use color constancy methods to reduce the influence of illumination and camera sensor on the colors of scene objects. The highest accuracy of color correction is obtained with learning-based color constancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Nikola Banić , Karlo Koščević , Sven Lončarić

Color constancy aims to restore the constant colors of a scene under different illuminants. However, due to the existence of camera spectral sensitivity, the network trained on a certain sensor, cannot work well on others. Also, since the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Xiaodong Cun , Zhendong Wang , Chi-Man Pun , Jianzhuang Liu , Wengang Zhou , Xu Jia , Houqiang Li
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