A method and apparatus may be used for performing a scene-based automatic white balance correction. The method may include obtaining an input image. The method may include obtaining a raw image thumbnail. The method may include obtaining an augmented image thumbnail. The method may include computing a histogram from an image thumbnail. The method may include determining a scene classification. The method may include learning a filter. The filter may be learned from one or several different instances of the raw image thumbnail, the augmented image thumbnail, the scene classification, or any combination thereof. The method may include applying the filter to the histogram to determine white balance correction coefficients and obtain a processed image.