Flexible Piecewise Curves Estimation for Photo Enhancement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13412v1
• Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 08:16:25 GMT
• Title: Flexible Piecewise Curves Estimation for Photo Enhancement
• Authors: Chongyi Li, Chunle Guo, Qiming Ai, Shangchen Zhou, Chen Change Loy
• Abstract summary: FlexiCurve takes an input image and estimates global curves to adjust the image. It is formulated as a multi-task framework to produce diverse estimations and the associated confidence maps. It has a fast inference speed (83FPS on a single NVIDIA 2080Ti GPU)
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents a new method, called FlexiCurve, for photo enhancement. Unlike most existing methods that perform image-to-image mapping, which requires expensive pixel-wise reconstruction, FlexiCurve takes an input image and estimates global curves to adjust the image. The adjustment curves are specially designed for performing piecewise mapping, taking nonlinear adjustment and differentiability into account. To cope with challenging and diverse illumination properties in real-world images, FlexiCurve is formulated as a multi-task framework to produce diverse estimations and the associated confidence maps. These estimations are adaptively fused to improve local enhancements of different regions. Thanks to the image-to-curve formulation, for an image with a size of 512*512*3, FlexiCurve only needs a lightweight network (150K trainable parameters) and it has a fast inference speed (83FPS on a single NVIDIA 2080Ti GPU). The proposed method improves efficiency without compromising the enhancement quality and losing details in the original image. The method is also appealing as it is not limited to paired training data, thus it can flexibly learn rich enhancement styles from unpaired data. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on photo enhancement quantitively and qualitatively.

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