JU Meng, LI Quan-Ge, BI Du-Pan,
To solve the conundrum that it is difficult to preserve the color constancy after doing illumination compensation, a novel algorithm based on Low-Pass(LP) filter and Retinex is proposed. In this algorithm, RGB image to be dealt is transformed into HSV space at the very beginning, the H and the S element are kept steady, then by using the LP filter the illumination image V is divided into high frequency and low frequency parts, which are symbolized by VH and VL respectively, in the flowing steps Retinex algorithm is used on the VL image to do illumination compensation, VH and the compensated VL are used to reconstructed V, and the compensated image in HSV space is transformed back to RGB space, where it gets the final image. Through experiment, it is confirmed that the proposed algorithm to do color image’s illumination compensation yields some good results both on illumination compensation and on preserving the color constancy.