• DocumentCode
    2605252
  • Title

    Fast automatic white balancing method by color histogram stretching

  • Author

    Wang, Su ; Zhang, Yewei ; Deng, Peng ; Zhou, Fuqiang

  • Author_Institution
    Key Lab. of Precision Opto-Mechatron. Technol. of Educ. Minist., Beijing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Beijing, China
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    15-17 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    979
  • Lastpage
    983
  • Abstract
    A white balancing method by adaptively stretching R, G and B color histograms is proposed. Different from the traditional white balancing methods which need to estimate illuminant, our method exploits the color content of image directly. Compared our method with Gray World, White Patch, Shade of Gray and 2nd order Grey Edge algorithms on 50 indoor images and 50 outdoor images, the proposed method is very simple and fast. It is suitable to be used in real-time imaging systems.
  • Keywords
    grey systems; image colour analysis; lighting; 2nd order Grey edge algorithms; Gray World; White Patch; color histogram stretching; fast automatic white balancing method; illuminant estimation; real-time imaging systems; Cameras; Histograms; Image color analysis; Image edge detection; Light sources; Real time systems; Automatic white balance; color histogram; histogram stretching; real-time imaging system;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Image and Signal Processing (CISP), 2011 4th International Congress on
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-9304-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CISP.2011.6100338
  • Filename
    6100338