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
Author Affiliations
  • 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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    Figures & Tables(11)
    Physical image of the microscope and camera. (a) Color temperature is 4500 K; (b) color temperature is 6300 K; (c) color temperature is 7000 K
    Statistics of the color cast coefficient. (a) Color temperature is 4500 K; (b) color temperature is 6300 K; (c) color temperature is 7000 K
    RAW image generated by simulation. (a) GT; (b) CCM; (c) WB; (d) RAW
    Color restoration results of different autoencoders. (a) Original image; (b) autoencoder; (c) UNet autoencoder
    Structure of the Inception
    Structure of the UNet autoencoder
    Subjective results of different algorithms in microscope color constancy dataset. (a) RAW; (b) Ref.[8]; (c) Ref. [9]; (d) Ref. [10] ; (e) Ref. [11]; (f) Ref. [12]; (g) Ref. [13]; (h) Ref. [15] ; (i) ours; (j) GT
    • Table 1. Selection of threshold T

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      Table 1. Selection of threshold T

      TBest25%MeanMediumTrimeanWorst25%
      101.782.402.012.127.05
      201.752.362.002.096.56
      301.622.322.362.016.34
      401.552.302.091.975.98
      501.432.291.911.935.52
      601.292.251.791.905.13
      701.112.231.761.854.98
      801.022.121.701.804.78
      900.922.011.671.724.05
      1001.042.081.691.754.28
      1101.232.181.721.794.78
      1201.112.211.751.825.06
      1301.332.221.891.925.98
      1401.422.261.941.986.25
      1501.482.351.982.016.43
      1601.532.392.022.066.52
      1701.622.352.052.096.75
      1801.722.452.082.147.12
    • Table 2. Evaluation results of different algorithms in NUS-8 CC dataset

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      Table 2. Evaluation results of different algorithms in NUS-8 CC dataset

      AlgorithmBest25%MeanMediumTrimeanWorst25%
      GW[8]1.164.593.463.819.85
      WP[9]1.449.917.448.7821.27
      Quasi-unsupervised[14]--1.971.91----
      CM[16]0.502.251.591.745.13
      Ref.[15]0.522.051.50--4.48
      Ref.[12]0.462.181.481.645.03
      Ref.[17]0.502.391.611.745.67
      Ref.[17]( pretrained)0.462.351.551.735.62
      CNN[13]0.682.141.831.954.26
      UNet[19]1.132.562.042.235.17
      Ours0.922.011.671.724.05
    • Table 3. Evaluation results of different algorithms in RECommended CC dataset

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      Table 3. Evaluation results of different algorithms in RECommended CC dataset

      AlgorithmBest25%MeanMediumTrimeanWorst25%
      GW[8]5.009.7010.0010.0013.70
      WP[9]2.209.106.707.8018.90
      SoG[10]2.307.306.806.9012.80
      GE[11]0.705.503.303.9013.80
      CC-GANs (Pix2Pix)[18]1.203.602.803.107.20
      CC-GANs(CycleGAN)[18]0.703.402.602.807.30
      CC-GANs (StarGAN)[18]1.705.704.905.2010.50
      CNN[13]0.802.602.002.104.00
      UNet[19]1.172.982.452.715.29
      Ours0.962.352.052.183.98
    • Table 4. Evaluation results of different algorithms in self-built microscope CC dataset

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      Table 4. Evaluation results of different algorithms in self-built microscope CC dataset

      AlgorithmBest25%MeanMediumTrimeanWorst25%
      GW[8]2.265.774.815.0711.94
      WP[9]4.436.195.045.2110.60
      SoG[10]1.013.593.173.187.51
      GE[11]4.296.736.246.3911.42
      Ref.[12]1.433.703.173.267.55
      Ref.[15]3.575.705.545.539.76
      CNN[13]0.751.981.751.814.25
      UNet[19]0.671.561.341.453.16
      Ours0.430.970.750.792.08
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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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