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Multiple transformation function estimation for image enhancement

1 Sep 2023Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation 2023 9archive 2025-07-28

Jaemin Park, An Gia Vien, Minhee Cha, Thuy Thi Pham, HanUl Kim, and Chul Lee

Most deep learning-based image enhancement algorithms have been developed based on the image-to-image translation approach, in which enhancement processes are difficult to interpret. In this paper, we propose a novel interpretable image enhancement algorithm that estimates multiple transformation functions to describe complex color mapping. First, we develop a histogram-based multiple transformation function estimation network (HMTF-Net) to estimate multiple transformation functions by exploiting both the spatial and statistical information of the input images. Second, we estimate pixel-wise weight maps, which indicate the contribution of each transformation function at each pixel, based on the local structures of the input image and the transformed images obtained by each transformation function. Finally, we obtain the enhanced image as the weighted sum of the transformed images using the estimated weight maps. Extensive experiments confirm the effectiveness of the proposed approach and demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art image enhancement algorithms for different image enhancement tasks.

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Image EnhancementImage-to-Image TranslationLow-Light Image EnhancementUnderwater Image Restoration

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Enhancement MIT-Adobe 5k MTFE PSNR on proRGB 25.46 #7 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Low-Light Image Enhancement LOL MTFE Average PSNR 22.86 #33 of 40 Archive leaderboard report

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