Using the Monge-Kantorovitch Transform in Chromagenic Color Constancy for Pathophysiology

The Chromagenic color constancy algorithm estimates the light color given two images of the same scene, one filtered and one unfiltered. The key insight underpinning the chromagenic method is that the filtered and unfiltered images are linearly related and that this linear relationship correlates strongly with the illuminant color. In the original method the best linear relationship was found based on the assumption that the filtered and unfiltered images were registered. Generally, this is not the case and implies an expensive image registration step.