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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

Color constancy is our ability to perceive constant colors across varying illuminations. Here, we trained deep neural networks to be color constant and evaluated their performance with varying cues. Inputs to the networks consisted of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Alban Flachot , Arash Akbarinia , Heiko H. Schütt , Roland W. Fleming , Felix A. Wichmann , Karl R. Gegenfurtner

In this paper, we propose a novel color constancy approach, called Bag of Color Features (BoCF), building upon Bag-of-Features pooling. The proposed method substantially reduces the number of parameters needed for illumination estimation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Firas Laakom , Nikolaos Passalis , Jenni Raitoharju , Jarno Nikkanen , Anastasios Tefas , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

In this paper, the aim is multi-illumination color constancy. However, most of the existing color constancy methods are designed for single light sources. Furthermore, datasets for learning multiple illumination color constancy are largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Partha Das , Yang Liu , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

This paper presents a novel and efficient image enhancement method based on pigment representation. Unlike conventional methods where the color transformation is restricted to pre-defined color spaces like RGB, our method dynamically adapts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Se-Ho Lee , Keunsoo Ko , Seung-Wook Kim

A statistical learning/inference framework for color demosaicing is presented. We start with simplistic assumptions about color constancy, and recast color demosaicing as a blind linear inverse problem: color parameterizes the unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-02-12 J. H. Oaknin

Computational Colour Constancy (CCC) consists of estimating the colour of one or more illuminants in a scene and using them to remove unwanted chromatic distortions. Much research has focused on illuminant estimation for CCC on single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Matteo Rizzo , Cristina Conati , Daesik Jang , Hui Hu

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

Insect vision supports complex behaviors including associative learning, navigation, and object detection, and has long motivated computational models for understanding biological visual processing. However, many contemporary models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Adam D. Hines , Karin Nordström , Andrew B. Barron

The goal of computational color constancy is to preserve the perceptive colors of objects under different lighting conditions by removing the effect of color casts caused by the scene's illumination. With the rapid development of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Mahmoud Afifi

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

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

Pooling is a ubiquitous operation in image processing algorithms that allows for higher-level processes to collect relevant low-level features from a region of interest. Currently, max-pooling is one of the most commonly used operators in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Arash Akbarinia , Raquel Gil Rodríguez , C. Alejandro Parraga

Color Appearance Models are biological networks that consist of a cascade of linear+nonlinear layers that modify the linear measurements at the retinal photo-receptors leading to an internal (nonlinear) representation of color that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-13 Jesus Malo

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 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

Accurate cell instance segmentation is foundational for digital pathology analysis. Existing methods based on contour detection and distance mapping still face significant challenges in processing complex and dense cellular regions. Graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Rui Sun , Yiwen Yang , Kaiyu Guo , Chen Jiang , Dongli Xu , Zhaonan Liu , Tan Pan , Limei Han , Xue Jiang , Wu Wei , Yuan Cheng

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

Dermoscopic skin images are often obtained with different imaging devices, under varying acquisition conditions. In this work, instead of attempting to perform intensity and color normalization, we propose to leverage computational color…

Precise color control remains a persistent failure mode in text-to-image diffusion systems, particularly in design-oriented workflows where outputs must satisfy explicit, user-specified color targets. We present an inference-time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Angad Singh Ahuja , Aarush Ram Anandh