A supervised combination strategy for illumination chromaticity estimation

  • Authors:
  • Bing Li;Weihua Xiong;De Xu;Hong Bao

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China;OmniVision Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA;Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China;Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Color constancy is an important perceptual ability of humans to recover the color of objects invariant of light information. It is also necessary for a robust machine vision system. Until now, a number of color constancy algorithms have been proposed in the literature. In particular, the edge-based color constancy uses the edge of an image to estimate light color. It is shown to be a rich framework that can represent many existing illumination estimation solutions with various parameter settings. However, color constancy is an ill-posed problem; every algorithm is always given out under some assumptions and can only produce the best performance when these assumptions are satisfied. In this article, we have investigated a combination strategy relying on the Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) technique that integrates the output of edge-based color constancy with multiple parameters. Experiments on real image data sets show that the proposed method works better than most single-color constancy methods and even some current state-of-the-art color constancy combination strategies.