
Automatic white balance (AWB) plays a crucial role in digital imaging, with modern learning-based methods achieving better performance. These methods, however, require extensive training data captured by a specific sensor, which cannot be directly deployed other sensors due to the different spectral sensitivity functions. This paper presents a novel cross-sensor adaptation method based on 3×3 color transformation matrices. By leveraging least-squares optimization and a Mahalanobis distance strategy, our approach constructs sensor-specific mapping matrices using 24-patch ColorChecker data. The results derived using the NUS dataset demonstrate that the proposed method has much smaller angular errors without requiring additional data collection or complicated network tuning.
Liangwei Chen, Minchen Wei, Ming Ronnier Luo, "Learning-free Cross-sensor Color Constancy Using Optimal Nonsingular Matrices" in Color and Imaging Conference, 2025, pp 90 - 94, https://doi.org/10.2352/CIC.2025.33.1.18