Color temperature tuning: Allowing accurate post-capture white-balance editing

Mahmoud Afifi, Abhijith Punnappurath, Abdelrahman Abdelhamed, Hakki Can Karaimer, Abdullah Abuolaim, and Michael S. Brown

York University

Best Paper Award at the 27th IS&T Color and Imaging Conference, 2019

Reference code for the paper Color temperature tuning: Allowing accurate post-capture white-balance editing. Mahmoud Afifi, Abhijith Punnappurath, Abdelrahman Abdelhamed, Hakki Can Karaimer, Abdullah Abuolaim, and Michael S. Brow, Color Imaging Conference (CIC), 2019. If you use this code, please cite our paper:

@inproceedings{afifi2019color,
     title={Color Temperature Tuning: Allowing Accurate Post-Capture White-Balance Editing},
     author={Afifi, Mahmoud and Punnappurath, Abhijith and Abdelhamed, Abdelrahman and Karaimer, Hakki Can and Abuolaim, Abdullah and and Brown, Michael S},
     booktitle={Color Imaging Conference (CIC)},
     year={2019},
     organization={Society for Imaging Science and Technology}
}

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Code

We provide a Matlab GUI prototype of our method. The code has been succesfully tested with Matlab 2019 | Windows 10. The code may work with versions other than the specified.

Citation

Mahmoud Afifi, Abhijith Punnappurath, Abdelrahman Abdelhamed, Hakki Can Karaimer, Abdullah Abuolaim, and Michael S. Brown. Color Temperature Tuning: Allowing Accurate Post-Capture White-Balance Editing. In the 27th Color and Imaging Conference, pp. 1-6(6), 2019.

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• Deep White-Balance Editing: A multi-task deep learning model for post-capture white-balance editing (CVPR 2020).

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