Color Constancy

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 40 papers with code (102 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation for Low-Light Image Enhancement
  19 Jan 2020 13 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 16 samples · 15 unverified
  The paper presents a novel method, Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation (Zero-DCE), which formulates light enhancement as a task of image-specific curve estimation with a deep network.
• A Benchmark for Temporal Color Constancy
  8 Mar 2020 3 repositories listed
  The conventional approach is to use a single frame - shot frame - to estimate the scene illumination color.
• Fast Fourier Color Constancy
  23 Nov 2016 2 repositories listed
  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.
• CCMNet: Leveraging Calibrated Color Correction Matrices for Cross-Camera Color Constancy
  10 Apr 2025 1 repository listed
  Our method leverages pre-calibrated color correction matrices (CCMs) available on ISPs that map the camera's raw color space to a standard space (e.
• Colorful Diffuse Intrinsic Image Decomposition in the Wild
  20 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  Intrinsic image decomposition aims to separate the surface reflectance and the effects from the illumination given a single photograph.
• Lesion Elevation Prediction from Skin Images Improves Diagnosis
  5 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  While deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis for skin lesion image analysis is approaching dermatologists' performance levels, there are several works showing that incorporating additional features such as shape…
• Simple Image Signal Processing using Global Context Guidance
  17 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  First, we propose a novel module that can be integrated into any neural ISP to capture the global context information from the full RAW images.
• Self-Supervised Learning of Color Constancy
  11 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  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.
• Pixel-Wise Color Constancy via Smoothness Techniques in Multi-Illuminant Scenes
  5 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  Motivated by this, we propose a novel multi-illuminant color constancy method, by learning pixel-wise illumination maps caused by multiple light sources.
• Model-Based Image Signal Processors via Learnable Dictionaries
  10 Jan 2022 1 repository listed
  Digital cameras transform sensor RAW readings into RGB images by means of their Image Signal Processor (ISP).
• Point Cloud Color Constancy
  22 Nov 2021 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we present Point Cloud Color Constancy, in short PCCC, an illumination chromaticity estimation algorithm exploiting a point cloud.
• Robust channel-wise illumination estimation
  10 Nov 2021 1 repository listed
  We test this approach on the proposed method and show that it can indeed be used to avoid several extreme error cases and, thus, improves the practicality of the proposed technique.
• CLCC: Contrastive Learning for Color Constancy
  9 Jun 2021 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we present CLCC, a novel contrastive learning framework for color constancy.
• STAR: A Structure-Aware Lightweight Transformer for Real-Time Image Enhancement
  1 Jan 2021 1 repository listed
  STAR is a general architecture that can be easily adapted to different image enhancement tasks.
• Deep Neural Models for color discrimination and color constancy
  28 Dec 2020 1 repository listed
  High levels of color constancy were achieved with different DNN architectures.
• Cross-Camera Convolutional Color Constancy
  24 Nov 2020 1 repository listed
  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…
• The Cube++ Illumination Estimation Dataset
  19 Nov 2020 1 repository listed
  In this paper, a new illumination estimation dataset is proposed that aims to alleviate many of the mentioned problems and to help the illumination estimation research.
• An Improved Air-Light Estimation Scheme for Single Haze Images Using Color Constancy Prior
  21 Sep 2020 1 repository listed
  Hazy environment attenuates the scene radiance and causes difficulty in distinguishing the color and texture of the scene.
• Multi-Domain Learning for Accurate and Few-Shot Color Constancy
  1 Jun 2020 1 repository listed
  Given a new unseen device with limited number of training samples, our method is capable of delivering accurate color constancy by merely learning the camera-specific parameters from the few-shot dataset.
• A Multi-Hypothesis Approach to Color Constancy
  28 Feb 2020 1 repository listed
  Firstly, we select a set of candidate scene illuminants in a data-driven fashion and apply them to a target image to generate of set of corrected images.
• Cascading Convolutional Color Constancy
  24 Dec 2019 1 repository listed
  Regressing the illumination of a scene from the representations of object appearances is popularly adopted in computational color constancy.
• What Else Can Fool Deep Learning? Addressing Color Constancy Errors on Deep Neural Network Performance
  15 Dec 2019 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 6 samples · 3 unverified
  There is active research targeting local image manipulations that can fool deep neural networks (DNNs) into producing incorrect results.
• INTEL-TAU: A Color Constancy Dataset
  23 Oct 2019 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we describe a new large dataset for illumination estimation.
• Bag of Color Features For Color Constancy
  11 Jun 2019 1 repository listed
  To further improve the illumination estimation accuracy, we propose a novel attention mechanism for the BoCF model with two variants based on self-attention.
• When Color Constancy Goes Wrong: Correcting Improperly White-Balanced Images
  1 Jun 2019 1 repository listed
  The challenge lies not in identifying what the correct white balance should have been, but in the fact that the in-camera white-balance procedure is followed by several camera-specific nonlinear color manipulations that…
• Quasi-Unsupervised Color Constancy
  1 Jun 2019 1 repository listed
  After training, unbalanced images can be processed thanks to the preliminary conversion to grayscale of the input to the neural network.
• Convolutional Neural Networks Can Be Deceived by Visual Illusions
  1 Jun 2019 1 repository listed
  In particular, we show that CNNs trained for image denoising, image deblurring, and computational color constancy are able to replicate the human response to visual illusions, and that the extent of this replication…
• DeepIlluminance: Contextual Illuminance Estimation via Deep Neural Networks
  12 May 2019 1 repository listed
  First, the contextual net with a center-surround architecture extracts local contextual features from image patches, and generates initial illuminant estimates and the corresponding color corrected patches.
• Learning Matchable Image Transformations for Long-term Metric Visual Localization
  1 Apr 2019 1 repository listed
  Long-term metric self-localization is an essential capability of autonomous mobile robots, but remains challenging for vision-based systems due to appearance changes caused by lighting, weather, or seasonal variations.
• Spectral Illumination Correction: Achieving Relative Color Constancy Under the Spectral Domain
  6 Dec 2018 1 repository listed
  Achieving color constancy between and within images, i.

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