Investigating Color Illusions from the Perspective of Computational Color Constancy

Oguzhan Ulucan, Diclehan Ulucan, Marc Ebner

2024

Abstract

Color constancy and color illusion perception are two phenomena occurring in the human visual system, which can help us reveal unknown mechanisms of human perception. For decades computer vision scientists have developed numerous color constancy methods, which estimate the reflectance of the surface by discounting the illuminant. However, color illusions have not been analyzed in detail in the field of computational color constancy, which we find surprising since the relationship they share is significant and may let us design more robust systems. We argue that any model that can reproduce our sensation on color illusions should also be able to provide pixel-wise estimates of the light source. In other words, we suggest that the analysis of color illusions helps us to improve the performance of the existing global color constancy methods, and enable them to provide pixel-wise estimates for scenes illuminated by multiple light sources. In this study, we share the outcomes of our investigation in which we take several color constancy methods and modify them to reproduce the behavior of the human visual system on color illusions. Also, we show that parameters purely extracted from illusions are able to improve the performance of color constancy methods. A noteworthy outcome is that our strategy based on the investigation of color illusions outperforms the state-of-the-art methods that are specifically designed to transform global color constancy algorithms into multi-illuminant algorithms.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ulucan O., Ulucan D. and Ebner M. (2024). Investigating Color Illusions from the Perspective of Computational Color Constancy. In Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-679-8, SciTePress, pages 25-36. DOI: 10.5220/0012311600003660

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp24,
author={Oguzhan Ulucan and Diclehan Ulucan and Marc Ebner},
title={Investigating Color Illusions from the Perspective of Computational Color Constancy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP},
year={2024},
pages={25-36},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012311600003660},
isbn={978-989-758-679-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP
TI - Investigating Color Illusions from the Perspective of Computational Color Constancy
SN - 978-989-758-679-8
AU - Ulucan O.
AU - Ulucan D.
AU - Ebner M.
PY - 2024
SP - 25
EP - 36
DO - 10.5220/0012311600003660
PB - SciTePress