2016/11/23 by Jonathan T. Barron, Barron, Jonathan T., Yun‐Ta Tsai +2 · 6 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Color Science and Applications #Image Enhancement Techniques #cs.CV #melanin and skin pigmentation
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1611.07596
CVPR 2017
arxiv created 2020/08/13 · arxiv updated 2020/08/14
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 than the previous state-of-the-art by 13-20% while being 250-3000 times faster. This unconventional approach introduces challenges regarding aliasing, directional statistics, and preconditioning, which we address. By producing a complete posterior distribution over illuminants instead of a single illuminant estimate, FFCC enables better training techniques, an effective temporal smoothing technique, and richer methods for error analysis. Our implementation of FFCC runs at ~700 frames per second on a mobile device, allowing it to be used as an accurate, real-time, temporally-coherent automatic white balance algorithm.