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Fast Fourier Color Constancy

arXiv 1611.07596 ↗First posted 23 Nov 2016cs.CVcited by 37

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Abstract (arXiv)

We present Fast Fourier Color Constancy (FFCC), a color constancy algorithm which solves illuminant estimation by reducing it to a spatial localization task on a torus. By operating in the frequency domain, FFCC produces lower error rates than the previous state-of-the-art by 13-20% while being 250-3000 times faster. This unconventional approach introduces challenges regarding aliasing, directional statistics, and preconditioning, which we address. By producing a complete posterior distribution over illuminants instead of a single illuminant estimate, FFCC enables better training techniques, an effective temporal smoothing technique, and richer methods for error analysis. Our implementation of FFCC runs at ~700 frames per second on a mobile device, allowing it to be used as an accurate, real-time, temporally-coherent automatic white balance algorithm.

Key facts. Cited by 37 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 23 Nov 2016.

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  1. 2021Mobile Computational Photography: A Tourcited by 62
  2. 2022Model-Based Image Signal Processors via Learnable Dictionariescited by 43
  3. 2021CLCC: Contrastive Learning for Color Constancycited by 29
  4. 2024The Oxford Spires Dataset: Benchmarking Large-Scale LiDAR-Visual Localisation, Reconstruction and Radiance Field Methodscited by 27
  5. 2021Auto White-Balance Correction for Mixed-Illuminant Scenescited by 22
  6. 2022Efficient Visual Computing with Camera RAW Snapshotscited by 18
  7. 2023Beyond the Pixel: a Photometrically Calibrated HDR Dataset for Luminance and Color Predictioncited by 14
  8. 2024Rawformer: Unpaired Raw-to-Raw Translation for Learnable Camera ISPscited by 11
  9. 2025Time-Aware Auto White Balance in Mobile Photographycited by 10
  10. 2024Attentive Illumination Decomposition Model for Multi-Illuminant White Balancingcited by 8
  11. 2025GCC: Generative Color Constancy via Diffusing a Color Checkercited by 8
  12. 2025CCMNet: Leveraging Calibrated Color Correction Matrices for Cross-Camera Color Constancycited by 8
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  1. 2022Learning Enriched Illuminants for Cross and Single Sensor Color Constancycited by 7
  2. 2022Modeling the Lighting in Scenes as Style for Auto White-Balance Correctioncited by 6
  3. 2024Optimizing Illuminant Estimation in Dual-Exposure HDR Imagingcited by 5
  4. 2025Revisiting Image Fusion for Multi-Illuminant White-Balance Correctioncited by 5
  5. 2025Test-Time Canonicalization by Foundation Models for Robust Perceptioncited by 5
  6. 2021Generative Models for Multi-Illumination Color Constancycited by 4
  7. 2021Point Cloud Color Constancycited by 4
  8. 2025Leveraging Multispectral Sensors for Color Correction in Mobile Camerascited by 3
  9. 2026White-Balance First, Adjust Later: Cross-Camera Color Constancy via Vision-Language Evaluationcited by 3
  10. 2026RL-AWB: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Auto White Balance Correction in Low-Light Night-time Scenescited by 2
  11. 2021Cascading Convolutional Temporal Colour Constancycited by 1
  12. 2022Rendering Nighttime Image Via Cascaded Color and Brightness Compensationcited by 1
  13. 2025Multi-illuminant Color Constancy via Multi-scale Illuminant Estimation and Fusioncited by 1
  14. 2025Experts-Guided Unbalanced Optimal Transport for ISP Learning from Unpaired and/or Paired Datacited by 1
  15. 2025LumiCtrl : Learning Illuminant Prompts for Lighting Control in Personalized Text-to-Image Modelscited by 1
  16. 2022Deep Metric Color Embeddings for Splicing Localization in Severely Degraded Imagescited by 0
  17. 2022Template matching with white balance adjustment under multiple illuminantscited by 0
  18. 2023Practical cross-sensor color constancy using a dual-mapping strategycited by 0
  19. 2024A Color Image Analysis Tool to Help Users Choose a Makeup Foundation Colorcited by 0
  20. 2025Boosting Illuminant Estimation in Deep Color Constancy through Enhancing Brightness Robustnesscited by 0
  21. 2025Learning Camera-Agnostic White-Balance Preferencescited by 0
  22. 2026Bio-inspired Color Constancy: From Gray Anchoring Theory to Gray Pixel Methodscited by 0
  23. 2026Color Constancy in Hyperspectral Imaging via Reduced Spectral Spacescited by 0
  24. 2026Color Pass-Through via Camera-Display Couplingcited by 0
  25. 2026SAFE: Scene-Aware Feature Modulation for Color Constancy with Learned Color Space in Pure-Color Scenescited by 0