DocumentCode :
3425238
Title :
Corrected-Moment Illuminant Estimation
Author :
Finlayson, Graham D.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
fYear :
2013
fDate :
1-8 Dec. 2013
Firstpage :
1904
Lastpage :
1911
Abstract :
Image colors are biased by the color of the prevailing illumination. As such the color at pixel cannot always be used directly in solving vision tasks from recognition, to tracking to general scene understanding. Illuminant estimation algorithms attempt to infer the color of the light incident in a scene and then a color cast removal step discounts the color bias due to illumination. However, despite sustained research since almost the inception of computer vision, progress has been modest. The best algorithms - now often built on top of expensive feature extraction and machine learning - are only about twice as good as the simplest approaches. This paper, in effect, will show how simple moment based algorithms - such as Gray-World - can, with the addition of a simple correction step, deliver much improved illuminant estimation performance. The corrected Gray-World algorithm maps the mean image color using a fixed (per camera) 3x3 matrix transform. More generally, our moment approach employs 1st, 2nd and higher order moments - of colors or features such as color derivatives - and these again are linearly corrected to give an illuminant estimate. The question of how to correct the moments is an important one yet we will show a simple alternating least-squares training procedure suffices. Remarkably, across the major datasets - evaluated using a 3-fold cross validation procedure - our simple corrected moment approach always delivers the best results (and the performance increment is often large compared with the prior art). Significantly, outlier performance was found to be much improved.
Keywords :
computer vision; feature extraction; image colour analysis; learning (artificial intelligence); least squares approximations; matrix algebra; method of moments; transforms; 3-fold cross validation procedure; color bias; color cast removal step; color derivatives; computer vision; corrected-moment illuminant estimation; feature extraction; gray-world algorithm; higher order moments; illuminant estimation performance; illumination; image colors; least-squares training procedure; light incident; machine learning; matrix transform; moment based algorithms; outlier performance; vision tasks; Computer vision; Conferences; Color; Color Constancy; Illuminant Estimation; Statistical Moments;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, VIC
ISSN :
1550-5499
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICCV.2013.239
Filename :
6751347
Link To Document :
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