A Unified HDR Imaging Method with Pixel and Patch Level

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06943v2
• Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 01:38:17 GMT
• Title: A Unified HDR Imaging Method with Pixel and Patch Level
• Authors: Qingsen Yan, Weiye Chen, Song Zhang, Yu Zhu, Jinqiu Sun, Yanning Zhang
• Abstract summary: We propose a hybrid HDR deghosting network, called HyNet, to generate visually pleasing HDR images. Experiments demonstrate that HyNet outperforms state-of-the-art methods both quantitatively and qualitatively, achieving appealing HDR visualization with unified textures and colors.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Mapping Low Dynamic Range (LDR) images with different exposures to High Dynamic Range (HDR) remains nontrivial and challenging on dynamic scenes due to ghosting caused by object motion or camera jitting. With the success of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), several DNNs-based methods have been proposed to alleviate ghosting, they cannot generate approving results when motion and saturation occur. To generate visually pleasing HDR images in various cases, we propose a hybrid HDR deghosting network, called HyHDRNet, to learn the complicated relationship between reference and non-reference images. The proposed HyHDRNet consists of a content alignment subnetwork and a Transformer-based fusion subnetwork. Specifically, to effectively avoid ghosting from the source, the content alignment subnetwork uses patch aggregation and ghost attention to integrate similar content from other non-reference images with patch level and suppress undesired components with pixel level. To achieve mutual guidance between patch-level and pixel-level, we leverage a gating module to sufficiently swap useful information both in ghosted and saturated regions. Furthermore, to obtain a high-quality HDR image, the Transformer-based fusion subnetwork uses a Residual Deformable Transformer Block (RDTB) to adaptively merge information for different exposed regions. We examined the proposed method on four widely used public HDR image deghosting datasets. Experiments demonstrate that HyHDRNet outperforms state-of-the-art methods both quantitatively and qualitatively, achieving appealing HDR visualization with unified textures and colors.

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