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 dichromatic reflectance 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 outperform purely statistical and purely physical algorithms.


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    Title :

    A combined physical and statistical approach to colour constancy


    Contributors:
    Schaefer, G. (author) / Hordley, S. (author) / Finlayson, G. (author)


    Publication date :

    2005-01-01


    Size :

    123308 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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