Very lightweight photo retouching network with conditional sequential modulation

Y Liu, J He, X Chen, Z Zhang, H Zhao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2022ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photo retouching aims at improving the aesthetic visual quality of images that suffer from
photographic defects, especially for poor contrast, over/under exposure, and inharmonious
saturation. In practice, photo retouching can be accomplished by a series of image
processing operations. As most commonly-used retouching operations are pixel-
independent, ie, the manipulation on one pixel is uncorrelated with its neighboring pixels,
we can take advantage of this property and design a specialized algorithm for efficient …
Photo retouching aims at improving the aesthetic visual quality of images that suffer from photographic defects, especially for poor contrast, over/under exposure, and inharmonious saturation. In practice, photo retouching can be accomplished by a series of image processing operations. As most commonly-used retouching operations are pixel-independent, i.e., the manipulation on one pixel is uncorrelated with its neighboring pixels, we can take advantage of this property and design a specialized algorithm for efficient global photo retouching. We analyze these global operations and find that they can be mathematically formulated by a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP). Based on this observation, we propose an extremely lightweight framework – Conditional Sequential Retouching Network (CSRNet). Benefiting from the utilization of convolution, CSRNet only contains less than 37 K trainable parameters, which are orders of magnitude smaller than existing learning-based methods. Experiments show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on the benchmark MIT-Adobe FiveK dataset quantitively and qualitatively. In addition to achieve global photo retouching, the proposed framework can be easily extended to learn local enhancement effects. The extended model, namely CSRNet-L, also achieves competitive results in various local enhancement tasks.
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