Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 58, Issue 20, 2010010(2021)

Color Constancy Algorithm of Microscopic Images Based on Autoencoder

Fangming Lan1, Zongju Peng1,2、*, Zhihua Lu1, Qichao Shi1, and Fen Chen2
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  • 1Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315201, China
  • 2School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China
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    Considering the lack of color constancy (CC) dataset in the field of microscopic images and the failure in achieving the expected effect through the cross-dataset training of the CC algorithm, this study creates a microscopic CC dataset using two steps: camera acquisition and simulation generation. Moreover, this study proposes a microscopic image CC algorithm based on an autoencoder. The algorithm uses an improved UNet structure autoencoder for semi-supervised training and simultaneously introduces a new composite-loss function to optimize network parameters, thereby obtaining an accurate restored image color. Experimental results show that the image resolution trained using the algorithm is higher than traditional autoencoders, and the angle error estimates in the NUS-8, RECommended, and self-built microscope CC datasets are smaller.

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    Fangming Lan, Zongju Peng, Zhihua Lu, Qichao Shi, Fen Chen. Color Constancy Algorithm of Microscopic Images Based on Autoencoder[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2021, 58(20): 2010010

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Nov. 16, 2020

    Accepted: Jan. 6, 2021

    Published Online: Oct. 13, 2021

    The Author Email: Peng Zongju (pengzongju@126.com)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP202158.2010010

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