A Fast, Scalable, and Reliable Deghosting Method for Extreme Exposure Fusion

Prabhakar, KR and Arora, R and Swaminathan, A and Singh, KP and Babu, RV (2019) A Fast, Scalable, and Reliable Deghosting Method for Extreme Exposure Fusion. In: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography, ICCP 2019, 15 May 2019 - 17 May 2019, Tokyo.

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Abstract

HDR fusion of extreme exposure images with complex camera and object motion is a challenging task. Existing patch-based optimization techniques generate noisy and/or blurry results with undesirable artifacts for difficult scenarios. Additionally, they are computationally intensive and have high execution times. Recently proposed CNN-based methods offer fast alternatives, but still fail to generate artifact-free results for extreme exposure images. Furthermore, they do not scale to an arbitrary number of input images. To address these issues, we propose a simple, yet effective CNN-based multi-exposure image fusion method that produces artifact-free HDR images. Our method is fast, and scales to an arbitrary number of input images. Additionally, we prepare a large dataset of 582 varying exposure images with corresponding deghosted HDR images to train our model. We test the efficacy of our algorithm on publicly available datasets, and achieve significant improvements over existing state-of-the-art methods. Through experimental results, we demonstrate that our method produces artifact-free results, and offers a speed-up of around 54× over existing state-of-the-art HDR fusion methods.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publication:	2019 IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography, ICCP 2019
Publisher:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Keywords:	Color photography; Large dataset, Arbitrary number; Deghosting; Exposure fusions; High dynamic range imaging; Multi-exposure images; Optimization techniques; State of the art; State-of-the-art methods, Image fusion
Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Computational and Data Sciences
Date Deposited:	28 Dec 2022 04:40
Last Modified:	28 Dec 2022 04:40
URI:	https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/78592

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