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diff --git a/src/ipa/libipa/colours.cpp b/src/ipa/libipa/colours.cpp
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index 00000000..9fcb53b0
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+++ b/src/ipa/libipa/colours.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2024, Ideas on Board Oy
+ *
+ * libipa miscellaneous colour helpers
+ */
+
+#include "colours.h"
+
+#include <algorithm>
+#include <cmath>
+
+namespace libcamera {
+
+namespace ipa {
+
+/**
+ * \file colours.h
+ * \brief Functions to reduce code duplication between IPA modules
+ */
+
+/**
+ * \brief Estimate luminance from RGB values following ITU-R BT.601
+ * \param[in] r The red value
+ * \param[in] g The green value
+ * \param[in] b The blue value
+ *
+ * This function estimates a luminance value from a triplet of Red, Green and
+ * Blue values, following the formula defined by ITU-R Recommendation BT.601-7
+ * which can be found at https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-BT.601
+ *
+ * \return The estimated luminance value
+ */
+double rec601LuminanceFromRGB(double r, double g, double b)
+{
+	return (r * .299) + (g * .587) + (b * .114);
+}
+
+/**
+ * \brief Estimate correlated colour temperature from RGB color space input
+ * \param[in] red The input red value
+ * \param[in] green The input green value
+ * \param[in] blue The input blue value
+ *
+ * This function estimates the correlated color temperature RGB color space
+ * input. In physics and color science, the Planckian locus or black body locus
+ * is the path or locus that the color of an incandescent black body would take
+ * in a particular chromaticity space as the blackbody temperature changes.
+ *
+ * If a narrow range of color temperatures is considered (those encapsulating
+ * daylight being the most practical case) one can approximate the Planckian
+ * locus in order to calculate the CCT in terms of chromaticity coordinates.
+ *
+ * More detailed information can be found in:
+ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature#Approximation
+ *
+ * \return The estimated color temperature
+ */
+uint32_t estimateCCT(double red, double green, double blue)
+{
+	/* Convert the RGB values to CIE tristimulus values (XYZ) */
+	double X = (-0.14282) * (red) + (1.54924) * (green) + (-0.95641) * (blue);
+	double Y = (-0.32466) * (red) + (1.57837) * (green) + (-0.73191) * (blue);
+	double Z = (-0.68202) * (red) + (0.77073) * (green) + (0.56332) * (blue);
+
+	/* Calculate the normalized chromaticity values */
+	double x = X / (X + Y + Z);
+	double y = Y / (X + Y + Z);
+
+	/* Calculate CCT */
+	double n = (x - 0.3320) / (0.1858 - y);
+	return 449 * n * n * n + 3525 * n * n + 6823.3 * n + 5520.33;
+}
+
+} /* namespace ipa */
+
+} /* namespace libcamera */
diff --git a/src/ipa/libipa/colours.h b/src/ipa/libipa/colours.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b42ed0ac
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+++ b/src/ipa/libipa/colours.h
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2024, Ideas on Board Oy
+ *
+ * libipa miscellaneous colour helpers
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+namespace libcamera {
+
+namespace ipa {
+
+double rec601LuminanceFromRGB(double r, double g, double b);
+uint32_t estimateCCT(double red, double green, double blue);
+
+} /* namespace ipa */
+
+} /* namespace libcamera */
diff --git a/src/ipa/libipa/meson.build b/src/ipa/libipa/meson.build
index e78cbcd6..788d037a 100644
--- a/src/ipa/libipa/meson.build
+++ b/src/ipa/libipa/meson.build
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ libipa_headers = files([
     'agc_mean_luminance.h',
     'algorithm.h',
     'camera_sensor_helper.h',
+    'colours.h',
     'exposure_mode_helper.h',
     'fc_queue.h',
     'histogram.h',
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ libipa_sources = files([
     'agc_mean_luminance.cpp',
     'algorithm.cpp',
     'camera_sensor_helper.cpp',
+    'colours.cpp',
     'exposure_mode_helper.cpp',
     'fc_queue.cpp',
     'histogram.cpp',