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Crowd-Powered Photo Enhancement Featuring an Active Learning Based Local Filter
Satoshi Kosugi, Toshihiko Yamasaki
In this study, we address local photo enhancement to improve the aesthetic quality of an input image by applying different effects to different regions. Existing photo enhancement methods are either not content-aware or not local; therefore, we propose a crowd-powered local enhancement method for content-aware local enhancement, which is achieved by asking crowd workers to locally optimize parameters for image editing functions. To make it easier to locally optimize the parameters, we propose an active learning based local filter. The parameters need to be determined at only a few key pixels selected by an active learning method, and the parameters at the other pixels are automatically predicted using a regression model. The parameters at the selected key pixels are independently optimized, breaking down the optimization problem into a sequence of single-slider adjustments. Our experiments show that the proposed filter outperforms existing filters, and our enhanced results are more visually pleasing than the results by the existing enhancement methods. Our source code and results are available at https://github.com/satoshi-kosugi/crowd-powered.
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