Colour constancy using the chromagenic constraint. Finlayson, G. D., Hordley, S. D., & Morovic, P. M. In IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages 1079–1086, San Diego, California, June, 2005.
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In this paper we propose that two images are captured of every scene: a normal image and an image captured where a coloured filter is placed in front of the camera. This additional information is then used in solving for colour constancy. The novelty of our approach is not that we add a colour filter (this is an old idea) but in how we use the additional information. In contradistinction to previous work we propose that the dimensionality of the 6 measurements per image pixel remains at 3 (not 6): we do not add a filter to increase the number of degrees of freedom but rather as a way of estimating the illuminant. We say that a filter is chromagenic if the relationship between filtered and unfiltered RGBs varies with and depends strongly on illumination. The canonical chromagenic algorithm works by testing the applicability of pre-computed relations in situ in an image. We extend the chromagenic approach to incorporate knowledge of the gamut of colours we expect to see under a given light and so in effect we make a hybrid gamut mapping + chromagenic algorithm. Experiments validate our approach with chromagenic gamut mapping shown to deliver significantly better constancy than all other algorithms tested.
@inproceedings{uea22480,
           month = {June},
          author = {G. D. Finlayson and S. D. Hordley and P. M. Morovic},
       booktitle = {IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
         address = {San Diego, California},
           title = {Colour constancy using the chromagenic constraint},
            year = {2005},
         journal = {IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
             doi = {10.1109/CVPR.2005.101},
           pages = {1079--1086},
             url = {https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/22480/},
        abstract = {In this paper we propose that two images are captured of every scene: a normal image and an image captured where a coloured filter is placed in front of the camera. This additional information is then used in solving for colour constancy. The novelty of our approach is not that we add a colour filter (this is an old idea) but in how we use the additional information. In contradistinction to previous work we propose that the dimensionality of the 6 measurements per image pixel remains at 3 (not 6): we do not add a filter to increase the number of degrees of freedom but rather as a way of estimating the illuminant. We say that a filter is chromagenic if the relationship between filtered and unfiltered RGBs varies with and depends strongly on illumination. The canonical chromagenic algorithm works by testing the applicability of pre-computed relations in situ in an image. We extend the chromagenic approach to incorporate knowledge of the gamut of colours we expect to see under a given light and so in effect we make a hybrid gamut mapping + chromagenic algorithm. Experiments validate our approach with chromagenic gamut mapping shown to deliver significantly better constancy than all other algorithms tested.}
}

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