Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 43, Issue 14, 1433001(2023)

Color Constancy Algorithm Using Ambient Light Sensor

Yuemin Li, Haisong Xu*, Yiming Huang, Minhang Yang, Bing Hu, and Yuntao Zhang
Author Affiliations
  • State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, China
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    Figures & Tables(11)
    Schematic of camera pose representation
    Schematic of gray pixel extraction assisted by ALS
    Distribution of the light sources in dataset for color space transformation
    Distribution of the light sources in dataset for color constancy algorithm testing
    Typical scenes with low color complexity in the testing dataset
    Visualization of typical test images
    • Table 1. Value of parameters in the confidence assessment model

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      Table 1. Value of parameters in the confidence assessment model

      HiWibTHTC
      6464180.04×Hi×Wi0.01
    • Table 2. Evaluation of the confidence assessment model

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      Table 2. Evaluation of the confidence assessment model

      ConditionRecallPrecisionFalse positive rating
      Training fold1.000.980.05
      Testing fold0.821.000.00
    • Table 3. Evaluation of the color space transformation model (angular error)

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      Table 3. Evaluation of the color space transformation model (angular error)

      ConditionMean /(°)Tri-mean /(°)Median /(°)Best 25% /(°)Worst 25% /(°)
      Training fold0.660.550.560.191.33
      Testing fold1.151.121.180.481.68
    • Table 4. Value of parameters in transformation from camera RGB space to XYorth plane

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      Table 4. Value of parameters in transformation from camera RGB space to XYorth plane

      wrwgwbDrCDgCDbCθ /(°)σ
      0.25330.49350.25320.41411.0000.747640.850.0453
    • Table 5. Performance of color constancy algorithms in the test set (angular error)

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      Table 5. Performance of color constancy algorithms in the test set (angular error)

      MethodMean /(°)Tri-mean /(°)Median /(°)Best 25% /(°)Worst 25% /(°)
      GW6.887.407.101.9911.37
      GE15.073.884.391.6110.32
      GE25.565.785.491.999.16
      SoG4.693.003.671.5210.30
      WP6.576.435.971.0713.16
      WGE6.526.816.321.6611.48
      DO5.021.973.260.4613.55
      GP3.351.752.280.838.42
      GI4.071.652.890.4110.72
      ALS only2.692.252.331.204.83
      ALS grey pixels2.141.341.570.375.11
      ALS-based CC2.271.591.810.464.99
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    Yuemin Li, Haisong Xu, Yiming Huang, Minhang Yang, Bing Hu, Yuntao Zhang. Color Constancy Algorithm Using Ambient Light Sensor[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2023, 43(14): 1433001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Vision, Color, and Visual Optics

    Received: Jan. 10, 2023

    Accepted: Mar. 20, 2023

    Published Online: Jul. 13, 2023

    The Author Email: Haisong Xu (chsxu@zju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS230458

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