A Combined Physical and Statistical Approach to Colour Constancy

  • Authors:
  • Gerald Schaefer;Steven Hordley;Graham Finlayson

  • Affiliations:
  • Nottingham Trent University;University of East Anglia;University of East Anglia

  • Venue:
  • CVPR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) - Volume 1 - Volume 01
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Computational colour constancy tries to recover the colour of the scene illuminant of an image. Colour constancy algorithms can, in general, be divided into two groups: statistics-based approaches that exploit statistical knowledge of common lights and surfaces, and physics-based algorithms which are based on an understanding of how physical processes such as highlights manifest themselves in images. A combined physical and statistical colour constancy algorithm that integrates the advantages of the statistics-based Colour by Correlation method with those of a physics-based technique based on the dichromaticreflectance model is introduced. In contrast to other approaches not only a single illuminant estimate is provided but a set of likelihoods for a given illumination set. Experimental results on the benchmark Simon Fraser image database show the combined method to clearly out-perform purely statistical and purely physical algorithms.