Photo Retouching

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

3 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 3 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted.

Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

Libraries

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

3 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

16 shown of 16 papers with code (27 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Retinexformer: One-stage Retinex-based Transformer for Low-light Image Enhancement
  12 Mar 2023 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 10 samples · 8 unverified
  When enhancing low-light images, many deep learning algorithms are based on the Retinex theory.
• MAXIM: Multi-Axis MLP for Image Processing
  9 Jan 2022 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 27 of 46 samples · 19 unverified
  In this work, we present a multi-axis MLP based architecture called MAXIM, that can serve as an efficient and flexible general-purpose vision backbone for image processing tasks.
• CURL: Neural Curve Layers for Global Image Enhancement
  29 Nov 2019 3 repositories listed
  We present a novel approach to adjust global image properties such as colour, saturation, and luminance using human-interpretable image enhancement curves, inspired by the Photoshop curves tool.
• IDEA-Bench: How Far are Generative Models from Professional Designing?
  16 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  Real-world design tasks - such as picture book creation, film storyboard development using character sets, photo retouching, visual effects, and font transfer - are highly diverse and complex, requiring deep…
• NILUT: Conditional Neural Implicit 3D Lookup Tables for Image Enhancement
  20 Jun 2023 1 repository listed
  Moreover, a NILUT can be extended to incorporate multiple styles into a single network with the ability to blend styles implicitly.
• RSFNet: A White-Box Image Retouching Approach using Region-Specific Color Filters
  15 Mar 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 12 samples · 9 unverified · 12 pointer-only (licence)
  Therefore, there is a need for white-box approaches that produce satisfying results and enable users to conveniently edit their images simultaneously.
• One-shot Detail Retouching with Patch Space Neural Transformation Blending
  3 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  Our method accurately transfers complex detail retouching edits.
• SepLUT: Separable Image-adaptive Lookup Tables for Real-time Image Enhancement
  18 Jul 2022 1 repository listed
  Image-adaptive lookup tables (LUTs) have achieved great success in real-time image enhancement tasks due to their high efficiency for modeling color transforms.
• AdaInt: Learning Adaptive Intervals for 3D Lookup Tables on Real-time Image Enhancement
  29 Apr 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
  They adopt a sub-optimal uniform sampling point allocation, limiting the expressiveness of the learned LUTs since the (tri-)linear interpolation between uniform sampling points in the LUT transform might fail to model…
• Structure-Aware Flow Generation for Human Body Reshaping
  9 Mar 2022 1 repository listed
  Body reshaping is an important procedure in portrait photo retouching.
• ABPN: Adaptive Blend Pyramid Network for Real-Time Local Retouching of Ultra High-Resolution Photo
  1 Jan 2022 1 repository listed
  The network is mainly composed of two components: a context-aware local retouching layer (LRL) and an adaptive blend pyramid layer (BPL).
• High-Resolution Photorealistic Image Translation in Real-Time: A Laplacian Pyramid Translation Network
  19 May 2021 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 5 samples · 2 unverified
  Existing image-to-image translation (I2IT) methods are either constrained to low-resolution images or long inference time due to their heavy computational burden on the convolution of high-resolution feature maps.
• PPR10K: A Large-Scale Portrait Photo Retouching Dataset with Human-Region Mask and Group-Level Consistency
  19 May 2021 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 7 samples · 7 unverified
  HRP requires that more attention should be paid to human regions, while GLC requires that a group of portrait photos should be retouched to a consistent tone.
• STAR: A Structure-Aware Lightweight Transformer for Real-Time Image Enhancement
  1 Jan 2021 1 repository listed
  STAR is a general architecture that can be easily adapted to different image enhancement tasks.
• Conditional Sequential Modulation for Efficient Global Image Retouching
  22 Sep 2020 1 repository listed
  The base network acts like an MLP that processes each pixel independently and the condition network extracts the global features of the input image to generate a condition vector.
• Automatic Photo Adjustment Using Deep Neural Networks
  24 Dec 2014 1 repository listed
  Many photographic styles rely on subtle adjustments that depend on the image content and even its semantics.

Syntology lines on 6 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.