scholarly journals Pyramid Inter-Attention for High Dynamic Range Imaging

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (18) ◽  
pp. 5102
Author(s):  
Sungil Choi ◽  
Jaehoon Cho ◽  
Wonil Song ◽  
Jihwan Choe ◽  
Jisung Yoo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Range ◽  
High Dynamic Range ◽  
Object Motion ◽  
Camera Motion ◽  
Large Object ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Merging Process ◽  
Ghosting Artifacts ◽  
High Dynamic ◽  
Alignment Errors

This paper proposes a novel approach to high-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging of dynamic scenes to eliminate ghosting artifacts in HDR images when in the presence of severe misalignment (large object or camera motion) in input low-dynamic-range (LDR) images. Recent non-flow-based methods suffer from ghosting artifacts in the presence of large object motion. Flow-based methods face the same issue since their optical flow algorithms yield huge alignment errors. To eliminate ghosting artifacts, we propose a simple yet effective alignment network for solving the misalignment. The proposed pyramid inter-attention module (PIAM) performs alignment of LDR features by leveraging inter-attention maps. Additionally, to boost the representation of aligned features in the merging process, we propose a dual excitation block (DEB) that recalibrates each feature both spatially and channel-wise. Exhaustive experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed PIAM and DEB, achieving state-of-the-art performance in terms of producing ghost-free HDR images.

scholarly journals Anti-Shake HDR Imaging Using RAW Image Data

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Liu ◽  
Bingxue Lv ◽  
Wei Huang ◽  
Baohua Jin ◽  
Canlin Li
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Range ◽  
High Dynamic Range ◽  
Image Sensor ◽  
Image Sequences ◽  
Reference Image ◽  
Imaging Method ◽  
Camera Motion ◽  
Range Image ◽  
Real Scene ◽  
High Dynamic

Camera shaking and object movement can cause the output images to suffer from blurring, noise, and other artifacts, leading to poor image quality and low dynamic range. Raw images contain minimally processed data from the image sensor compared with JPEG images. In this paper, an anti-shake high-dynamic-range imaging method is presented. This method is more robust to camera motion than previous techniques. An algorithm based on information entropy is employed to choose a reference image from the raw image sequence. To further improve the robustness of the proposed method, the Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF (ORB) algorithm is adopted to register the inputs, and a simple Laplacian pyramid fusion method is implanted to generate the high-dynamic-range image. Additionally, a large dataset with 435 various exposure image sequences is collected, which includes the corresponding JPEG image sequences to test the effectiveness of the proposed method. The experimental results illustrate that the proposed method achieves better performance in terms of anti-shake ability and preserves more details for real scene images than traditional algorithms. Furthermore, the proposed method is suitable for extreme-exposure image pairs, which can be applied to binocular vision systems to acquire high-quality real scene images, and has a lower algorithm complexity than deep learning-based fusion methods.

scholarly journals A Novel Approach for Detail-Enhanced Exposure Fusion Using Guided Filter

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harbinder Singh ◽  
Vinay Kumar ◽  
Sunil Bhooshan
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Range ◽  
High Dynamic Range ◽  
Guided Filter ◽  
Base Layer ◽  
Range Image ◽  
Exposure Fusion ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Fused Image ◽  
High Dynamic ◽  
Fusion Approach

In this paper we propose a novel detail-enhancing exposure fusion approach using nonlinear translation-variant filter (NTF). With the captured Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) images under different exposure settings, first the fine details are extracted based on guided filter. Next, the base layers (i.e., images obtained from NTF) across all input images are fused using multiresolution pyramid. Exposure, contrast, and saturation measures are considered to generate a mask that guides the fusion process of the base layers. Finally, the fused base layer is combined with the extracted fine details to obtain detail-enhanced fused image. The goal is to preserve details in both very dark and extremely bright regions without High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) representation and tone mapping step. Moreover, we have demonstrated that the proposed method is also suitable for the multifocus image fusion without introducing artifacts.

scholarly journals Infrared Image Adaptive Enhancement Guided by Energy of Gradient Transformation and Multiscale Image Fusion

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (18) ◽  
pp. 6262
Author(s):  
Feiran Chen ◽  
Jianlin Zhang ◽  
Jingju Cai ◽  
Tao Xu ◽  
Gang Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Range ◽  
Infrared Image ◽  
High Dynamic Range ◽  
Input Image ◽  
Base Layer ◽  
Dynamic Range Compression ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Adaptive Enhancement ◽  
High Dynamic ◽  
Detail Enhancement

The detail enhancement and dynamic range compression of infrared (IR) images is an important issue and a necessary practical application in the domain of IR image processing. This paper provides a novel approach to displaying high dynamic range infrared images on common display equipment with appropriate contrast and clear detail information. The steps are chiefly as follows. First, in order to protect the weak global details in different regions of the image, we adjust the original normalized image into multiple brightness levels by adaptive Gamma transformation. Second, each brightness image is decomposed into a base layer and several detail layers by the multiscale guided filter. Details in each image are enhanced separately. Third, to obtain the image with global details of the input image, enhanced images in each brightness are fused together. Last, we filter out the outliers and adjust the dynamic range before outputting the image. Compared with other conventional or cutting-edge methods, the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach is effective and robust in dynamic range compression and detail information enhancement of IR image.

A Novel Approach to Steganography in High- Dynamic-Range Images

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Ming Cheng ◽  
Chung-Ming Wang
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Range ◽  
High Dynamic Range ◽  
Range Images ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
High Dynamic

High Dynamic Range Images and Tone Mapping Operator

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke-Hu YANG ◽  
Jing JI ◽  
Jian-Jun GUO ◽  
Wen-Sheng YU
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Range ◽  
High Dynamic Range ◽  
Tone Mapping ◽  
Range Images ◽  
High Dynamic
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