How Time-Aware AWB Reframes Camera Intelligence

AWB is a basic feature on almost every smartphone camera, but also one of the easiest to fail. Why are indoor photos yellowish? Why are sunsets "corrected into daylight"?👉 The problem isn't that the model isn't strong enough; it's that it doesn't know what time it is. The ICCV 2025 paper proposes a key idea:👉 If AWB knows it's sunset, it won't try to make the world white.