Abstract

Color constancy is a basic step for achieving stable color perception in both biological visual systems and the image signal processing (ISP) pipeline of cameras. So far, there have been numerous computational models of color constancy that focus on scenes under normal light conditions but are less concerned with nighttime scenes. Compared with daytime scenes, nighttime scenes usually suffer from relatively higher-level noise and insufficient lighting, which usually degrade the performance of color constancy methods designed for scenes under normal light. In addition, there is a lack of nighttime color constancy datasets, limiting the development of relevant methods. In this paper, based on the gray-pixel-based color constancy methods, we propose a robust gray pixel (RGP) detection method by carefully designing the computation of illuminant-invariant measures (IIMs) from a given color-biased nighttime image. In addition, to evaluate the proposed method, a new dataset that contains 513 nighttime images and corresponding ground-truth illuminants was collected. We believe this dataset is a useful supplement to the field of color constancy. Finally, experimental results show that the proposed method achieves superior performance to statistics-based methods. In addition, the proposed method was also compared with recent deep-learning methods for nighttime color constancy, and the results show the method’s advantages in cross-validation among different datasets.

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