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Improving gamut mapping color constancy

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Finlayson, G. Hordley, S.
Copyright Year	1992
Abstract	The color constancy problem, that is, estimating the color of the scene illuminant from a set of image data recorded under an unknown light, is an important problem in computer vision and digital photography. The gamut mapping approach to color constancy is, to date, one of the most successful solutions to this problem. In this algorithm the set of mappings taking the image colors recorded under an unknown illuminant to the gamut of all colors observed under a standard illuminant is characterized. Then, at a second stage, a single mapping is selected from this feasible set. In the first version of this algorithm Forsyth (1990) mapped sensor values recorded under one illuminant to those recorded under a second, using a three-dimensional (3-D) diagonal matrix. However because the intensity of the scene illuminant cannot be recovered Finlayson (see IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Machine Intell. vol.18, no.10, p.1034-38, 1996) modified Forsyth's algorithm to work in a two-dimensional (2-D) chromaticity space and set out to recover only 2-D chromaticity mappings. While the chromaticity mapping overcomes the intensity problem it is not clear that something has not been lost in the process. The first result of this paper is to show that only intensity information is lost. Formally, we prove that the feasible set calculated by Forsyth's original algorithm, projected into 2-D, is the same as the feasible set calculated by the 2-D algorithm. Thus, there is no advantage in using the 3-D algorithm and we can use the simpler, 2-D version of the algorithm to characterize the set of feasible illuminants. Another problem with the chromaticity mapping is that it is perspective in nature and so chromaticities and chromaticity maps are perspectively distorted. Previous work demonstrated that the effects of perspective distortion were serious for the 2-D algorithm. Indeed, in order to select a sensible single mapping from the feasible set this set must first be mapped back up to 3-D. We extend this work to the case where a constraint on the possible color of the illuminant is factored into the gamut mapping algorithm. We show here that the illumination constraint can be enforced during selection without explicitly intersecting the two constraint sets. In the final part of this paper we reappraise the selection task. Gamut mapping returns the set of feasible illuminant maps. Our new algorithm is tested using real and synthetic images. The results of these tests show that the algorithm presented delivers excellent color constancy.
Sponsorship	IEEE Signal Processing Society
Starting Page	1774
Ending Page	1783
Page Count	10
File Size	237073
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10577149
Volume Number	9
Issue Number	10
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2000-10-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Lighting Layout Computer vision Two dimensional displays Testing Digital photography Sensor phenomena and characterization Information systems Image sensors
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software

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