The p Curve Method for Illumination Estimation
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Abstract
When taking an image with a camera, the illumination can have a lot of influence on the colors of objects in the image. This influence can have adverse effects on different computer vision tasks. This is solved by preprocessing the image using computational color constancy. In this paper we propose a new method for illumination estimation, one of the parts of color constancy, using low level image statistics and optimization approaches, the p curve method. Experimental results are presented comparing both the newly proposed method to already established methods as well as comparing different variants of the proposed method.
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DOI:10.1145/3448823
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ICVISP 2020: 2020 4th International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing
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