Paper Info
Title
A Multi-Hypothesis Approach To Color Constancy
Abstract
Contemporary approaches frame the color constancy problem as learning camera specific illuminant mappings. While high accuracy can be achieved on camera specific data, these models depend on camera spectral sensitivity and typically exhibit poor generalisation to new devices. Additionally, regression methods produce point estimates that do not explicitly account for potential ambiguities among plausible illuminant solutions, due to the ill-posed nature of the problem. We propose a Bayesian framework that naturally handles color constancy ambiguity via a multi-hypothesis strategy. Firstly, we select a set of candidate scene illuminants in a data-driven fashion and apply them to a target image to generate a set of corrected images. Secondly, we estimate, for each corrected image, the likelihood of the light source being achromatic using a camera-agnostic CNN. Finally, our method explicitly learns a final illumination estimate from the generated posterior probability distribution. Our likelihood estimator learns to answer a camera-agnostic question and thus enables effective multi-camera training by disentangling illuminant estimation from the supervised learning task. We extensively evaluate our proposed approach and additionally set a benchmark for novel sensor generalisation without re-training. Our method provides state-of-the-art accuracy on multiple public datasets (up to 11% median angular error improvement) while maintaining real-time execution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00234
2020 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR)
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1063-6919
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
31
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Hernández Juárez1202.82
Sarah Parisot214714.13
Benjamin Busam3107.02
Ales Leonardis41636147.33
Gregory G. Slabaugh587071.13
Steven McDonagh651.76