Learning Weighting Map for Bit-Depth Expansion within a Rational Range

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liu, Yuqing, Jia, Qi, Zhang, Jian, Fan, Xin, Wang, Shanshe, Ma, Siwei, Gao, Wen
Format: Preprint
Published: 2022
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866910668323553280
author Liu, Yuqing
Jia, Qi
Zhang, Jian
Fan, Xin
Wang, Shanshe
Ma, Siwei
Gao, Wen
author_facet Liu, Yuqing
Jia, Qi
Zhang, Jian
Fan, Xin
Wang, Shanshe
Ma, Siwei
Gao, Wen
contents Bit-depth expansion (BDE) is one of the emerging technologies to display high bit-depth (HBD) image from low bit-depth (LBD) source. Existing BDE methods have no unified solution for various BDE situations, and directly learn a mapping for each pixel from LBD image to the desired value in HBD image, which may change the given high-order bits and lead to a huge deviation from the ground truth. In this paper, we design a bit restoration network (BRNet) to learn a weight for each pixel, which indicates the ratio of the replenished value within a rational range, invoking an accurate solution without modifying the given high-order bit information. To make the network adaptive for any bit-depth degradation, we investigate the issue in an optimization perspective and train the network under progressive training strategy for better performance. Moreover, we employ Wasserstein distance as a visual quality indicator to evaluate the difference of color distribution between restored image and the ground truth. Experimental results show our method can restore colorful images with fewer artifacts and false contours, and outperforms state-of-the-art methods with higher PSNR/SSIM results and lower Wasserstein distance. The source code will be made available at https://github.com/yuqing-liu-dut/bit-depth-expansion
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2204_12039
institution arXiv
publishDate 2022
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Learning Weighting Map for Bit-Depth Expansion within a Rational Range
Liu, Yuqing
Jia, Qi
Zhang, Jian
Fan, Xin
Wang, Shanshe
Ma, Siwei
Gao, Wen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
Bit-depth expansion (BDE) is one of the emerging technologies to display high bit-depth (HBD) image from low bit-depth (LBD) source. Existing BDE methods have no unified solution for various BDE situations, and directly learn a mapping for each pixel from LBD image to the desired value in HBD image, which may change the given high-order bits and lead to a huge deviation from the ground truth. In this paper, we design a bit restoration network (BRNet) to learn a weight for each pixel, which indicates the ratio of the replenished value within a rational range, invoking an accurate solution without modifying the given high-order bit information. To make the network adaptive for any bit-depth degradation, we investigate the issue in an optimization perspective and train the network under progressive training strategy for better performance. Moreover, we employ Wasserstein distance as a visual quality indicator to evaluate the difference of color distribution between restored image and the ground truth. Experimental results show our method can restore colorful images with fewer artifacts and false contours, and outperforms state-of-the-art methods with higher PSNR/SSIM results and lower Wasserstein distance. The source code will be made available at https://github.com/yuqing-liu-dut/bit-depth-expansion
title Learning Weighting Map for Bit-Depth Expansion within a Rational Range
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.12039