FreeEnhance: Tuning-Free Image Enhancement via Content-Consistent Noising-and-Denoising Process

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Auteurs principaux: Luo, Yang, Zhang, Yiheng, Qiu, Zhaofan, Yao, Ting, Chen, Zhineng, Jiang, Yu-Gang, Mei, Tao
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author Luo, Yang
Zhang, Yiheng
Qiu, Zhaofan
Yao, Ting
Chen, Zhineng
Jiang, Yu-Gang
Mei, Tao
author_facet Luo, Yang
Zhang, Yiheng
Qiu, Zhaofan
Yao, Ting
Chen, Zhineng
Jiang, Yu-Gang
Mei, Tao
contents The emergence of text-to-image generation models has led to the recognition that image enhancement, performed as post-processing, would significantly improve the visual quality of the generated images. Exploring diffusion models to enhance the generated images nevertheless is not trivial and necessitates to delicately enrich plentiful details while preserving the visual appearance of key content in the original image. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, namely FreeEnhance, for content-consistent image enhancement using the off-the-shelf image diffusion models. Technically, FreeEnhance is a two-stage process that firstly adds random noise to the input image and then capitalizes on a pre-trained image diffusion model (i.e., Latent Diffusion Models) to denoise and enhance the image details. In the noising stage, FreeEnhance is devised to add lighter noise to the region with higher frequency to preserve the high-frequent patterns (e.g., edge, corner) in the original image. In the denoising stage, we present three target properties as constraints to regularize the predicted noise, enhancing images with high acutance and high visual quality. Extensive experiments conducted on the HPDv2 dataset demonstrate that our FreeEnhance outperforms the state-of-the-art image enhancement models in terms of quantitative metrics and human preference. More remarkably, FreeEnhance also shows higher human preference compared to the commercial image enhancement solution of Magnific AI.
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spellingShingle FreeEnhance: Tuning-Free Image Enhancement via Content-Consistent Noising-and-Denoising Process
Luo, Yang
Zhang, Yiheng
Qiu, Zhaofan
Yao, Ting
Chen, Zhineng
Jiang, Yu-Gang
Mei, Tao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
The emergence of text-to-image generation models has led to the recognition that image enhancement, performed as post-processing, would significantly improve the visual quality of the generated images. Exploring diffusion models to enhance the generated images nevertheless is not trivial and necessitates to delicately enrich plentiful details while preserving the visual appearance of key content in the original image. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, namely FreeEnhance, for content-consistent image enhancement using the off-the-shelf image diffusion models. Technically, FreeEnhance is a two-stage process that firstly adds random noise to the input image and then capitalizes on a pre-trained image diffusion model (i.e., Latent Diffusion Models) to denoise and enhance the image details. In the noising stage, FreeEnhance is devised to add lighter noise to the region with higher frequency to preserve the high-frequent patterns (e.g., edge, corner) in the original image. In the denoising stage, we present three target properties as constraints to regularize the predicted noise, enhancing images with high acutance and high visual quality. Extensive experiments conducted on the HPDv2 dataset demonstrate that our FreeEnhance outperforms the state-of-the-art image enhancement models in terms of quantitative metrics and human preference. More remarkably, FreeEnhance also shows higher human preference compared to the commercial image enhancement solution of Magnific AI.
title FreeEnhance: Tuning-Free Image Enhancement via Content-Consistent Noising-and-Denoising Process
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07451