CNN Injected Transformer for Image Exposure Correction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04366v1
• Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 14:53:00 GMT
• Title: CNN Injected Transformer for Image Exposure Correction
• Authors: Shuning Xu, Xiangyu Chen, Binbin Song, Jiantao Zhou
• Abstract summary: Previous exposure correction methods based on convolutions often produce exposure deviation in images. We propose a CNN Injected Transformer (CIT) to harness the individual strengths of CNN and Transformer simultaneously. In addition to the hybrid architecture design for exposure correction, we apply a set of carefully formulated loss functions to improve the spatial coherence and rectify potential color deviations.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Capturing images with incorrect exposure settings fails to deliver a satisfactory visual experience. Only when the exposure is properly set, can the color and details of the images be appropriately preserved. Previous exposure correction methods based on convolutions often produce exposure deviation in images as a consequence of the restricted receptive field of convolutional kernels. This issue arises because convolutions are not capable of capturing long-range dependencies in images accurately. To overcome this challenge, we can apply the Transformer to address the exposure correction problem, leveraging its capability in modeling long-range dependencies to capture global representation. However, solely relying on the window-based Transformer leads to visually disturbing blocking artifacts due to the application of self-attention in small patches. In this paper, we propose a CNN Injected Transformer (CIT) to harness the individual strengths of CNN and Transformer simultaneously. Specifically, we construct the CIT by utilizing a window-based Transformer to exploit the long-range interactions among different regions in the entire image. Within each CIT block, we incorporate a channel attention block (CAB) and a half-instance normalization block (HINB) to assist the window-based self-attention to acquire the global statistics and refine local features. In addition to the hybrid architecture design for exposure correction, we apply a set of carefully formulated loss functions to improve the spatial coherence and rectify potential color deviations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our image exposure correction method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in terms of both quantitative and qualitative metrics.

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