White balance algorithm [closed]

Answer 1

@Charles Ma has suggested to use the Gimp white balance algorithm. In python and numpy this could look like this:

# white balance for every channel independently
def wb(channel, perc = 0.05):
    mi, ma = (np.percentile(channel, perc), np.percentile(channel,100.0-perc))
    channel = np.uint8(np.clip((channel-mi)*255.0/(ma-mi), 0, 255))
    return channel

image = cv2.imread("foo.jpg", 1) # load color
imWB  = np.dstack([wb(channel, 0.05) for channel in cv2.split(img)] )

it's fast, simple and provides pretty decent results