Colour correction is the problem of mapping the sensor responses measured by a camera to the display-encoded RGBs or to a standard colour space such as CIE XYZ. In regression-based colour correction, camera RAW RGBs are mapped according to a simple formula (e.g. a linear mapping). Regression methods include least squares, polynomial and root-polynomial approaches. More recently, researchers have begun to investigate how neural networks can be used to solve the colour correction problem. _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ In this paper, we investigate the relative performance of regression versus a neural network approach. While we find that the latter approach performs better than simple least-squares the performance is not as good as that delivered by either root-polynomial or polynomial regression. The root-polynomial approach has the advantage that it is also exposure invariant. In contrast, the Neural Network approach delivers poor colour correction when the exposure changes.
Abdullah Kucuk, Graham Finlayson, Rafal Mantiuk, Maliha Ashraf, "Comparison of Regression Methods and Neural Networks for Colour Corrections" in London Imaging Meeting, 2022, pp 74 - 79, https://doi.org/10.2352/lim.2022.1.1.17