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Exposure: A White-Box Photo Post-Processing Framework

Hu, Yuanming, He, Hao, Xu, Chenxi, Wang, Baoyuan, Lin, Stephen·2018·ACM Transactions on Graphics
DOI 10.1145/3181974
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Retouching can significantly elevate the visual appeal of photos, but many casual photographers lack the expertise to do this well. To address this problem, previous works have proposed automatic retouching systems based on supervised learning from paired training images acquired before and after manual editing. As it is difficult for users to acquire paired images that reflect their retouching preferences, we present in this article a deep learning approach that is instead trained on unpaired data, namely, a set of photographs that exhibits a retouching style the user likes, which is much easier to collect. Our system is formulated using deep convolutional neural networks that learn to apply different retouching operations on an input image. Network training with respect to various types of edits is enabled by modeling these retouching operations in a unified manner as resolution-independent differentiable filters. To apply the filters in a proper sequence and with suitable parameters, we employ a deep reinforcement learning approach that learns to make decisions on what action to take next, given the current state of the image. In contrast to many deep learning systems, ours provides users with an understandable solution in the form of conventional retouching edits rather than just a “black-box” result. Through quantitative comparisons and user studies, we show that this technique generates retouching results consistent with the provided photo set.

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Authors
Hu, Y., He, H., Xu, C., Wang, B., & Lin, S.
Venue
ACM Transactions on Graphics
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Published
2018-04-30
Volume
37
Issue
2
Pages
1-17
ISSN
  • 0730-0301 (ISSN-L)
  • 1557-7368
DOI
10.1145/3181974
OpenAlex
W2963466723
Cited by
279
References
13
FWCI
14.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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