Illumination chromaticity estimation using inverse-intensity chromaticity space

  • Authors:
  • Robby T. Tan;Ko Nishino;Katsushi Ikeuchi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Tokyo;Department of Computer Science, Columbia University;Department of Computer Science, The University of Tokyo

  • Venue:
  • CVPR'03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE computer society conference on Computer vision and pattern recognition
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Existing color constancy methods cannot handle both uniform colored surfaces and highly textured surfaces in a single integrated framework. Statistics-based methods require many surface colors, and become error prone when there are only few surface colors. In contrast, dichromaticbased methods can successfully handle uniformly colored surfaces, but cannot be applied to highly textured surfaces since they require precise color segmentation. In this paper, we present a single integrated method to estimate illumination chromaticity from single/multi-colored surfaces. Unlike the existing dichromatic-based methods, the proposed method requires only rough highlight regions, without segmenting the colors inside them. We show that, by analyzing highlights, a direct correlation between illumination chromaticity and image chromaticity can be obtained. This correlation is clearly described in "inverse-intensity chromaticity space", a new two-dimensional space we introduce. In addition, by utilizing the Hough transform and histogram analysis in this space, illumination chromaticity can be estimated robustly, even for a highly textured surface. Experimental results on real images show the effectiveness of the method.