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Learning-free Cross-sensor Color Constancy Using Optimal Nonsingular Matrices
  DOI :  10.2352/CIC.2025.33.1.18  Published OnlineOctober 2025
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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.

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Liangwei Chen, Minchen Wei, Ming Ronnier Luo, "Learning-free Cross-sensor Color Constancy Using Optimal Nonsingular Matricesin Color and Imaging Conference,  2025,  pp 90 - 94,  https://doi.org/10.2352/CIC.2025.33.1.18

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