White Balance for Digital Still CamerasJOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 22, 497-509 (2006) Automatic White Balance for Digital Still Cameras* VARSHA CHIKANE AND CHIOU-SHANN FUH Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei, 106 Taiwan In recent years digital cameras have captured the camera market. Although the factors that consumer consider is the quality of the photographs produced. White balance is one of the methods used to improve the quality of the photographs. The basic white balance methods are, however powerless to handle all possible situations in the captured scene. In order to improve the white balance we divide this problem in three steps……