CapHDR2IR: Caption-Driven Transfer from Visible Light to Infrared Domain

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Hauptverfasser: Peng, Jingchao, Bashford-Rogers, Thomas, Shao, Zhuang, Zhao, Haitao, Singh, Aru Ranjan, Goswami, Abhishek, Debattista, Kurt
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author Peng, Jingchao
Bashford-Rogers, Thomas
Shao, Zhuang
Zhao, Haitao
Singh, Aru Ranjan
Goswami, Abhishek
Debattista, Kurt
author_facet Peng, Jingchao
Bashford-Rogers, Thomas
Shao, Zhuang
Zhao, Haitao
Singh, Aru Ranjan
Goswami, Abhishek
Debattista, Kurt
contents Infrared (IR) imaging offers advantages in several fields due to its unique ability of capturing content in extreme light conditions. However, the demanding hardware requirements of high-resolution IR sensors limit its widespread application. As an alternative, visible light can be used to synthesize IR images but this causes a loss of fidelity in image details and introduces inconsistencies due to lack of contextual awareness of the scene. This stems from a combination of using visible light with a standard dynamic range, especially under extreme lighting, and a lack of contextual awareness can result in pseudo-thermal-crossover artifacts. This occurs when multiple objects with similar temperatures appear indistinguishable in the training data, further exacerbating the loss of fidelity. To solve this challenge, this paper proposes CapHDR2IR, a novel framework incorporating vision-language models using high dynamic range (HDR) images as inputs to generate IR images. HDR images capture a wider range of luminance variations, ensuring reliable IR image generation in different light conditions. Additionally, a dense caption branch integrates semantic understanding, resulting in more meaningful and discernible IR outputs. Extensive experiments on the HDRT dataset show that the proposed CapHDR2IR achieves state-of-the-art performance compared with existing general domain transfer methods and those tailored for visible-to-infrared image translation.
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spellingShingle CapHDR2IR: Caption-Driven Transfer from Visible Light to Infrared Domain
Peng, Jingchao
Bashford-Rogers, Thomas
Shao, Zhuang
Zhao, Haitao
Singh, Aru Ranjan
Goswami, Abhishek
Debattista, Kurt
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Infrared (IR) imaging offers advantages in several fields due to its unique ability of capturing content in extreme light conditions. However, the demanding hardware requirements of high-resolution IR sensors limit its widespread application. As an alternative, visible light can be used to synthesize IR images but this causes a loss of fidelity in image details and introduces inconsistencies due to lack of contextual awareness of the scene. This stems from a combination of using visible light with a standard dynamic range, especially under extreme lighting, and a lack of contextual awareness can result in pseudo-thermal-crossover artifacts. This occurs when multiple objects with similar temperatures appear indistinguishable in the training data, further exacerbating the loss of fidelity. To solve this challenge, this paper proposes CapHDR2IR, a novel framework incorporating vision-language models using high dynamic range (HDR) images as inputs to generate IR images. HDR images capture a wider range of luminance variations, ensuring reliable IR image generation in different light conditions. Additionally, a dense caption branch integrates semantic understanding, resulting in more meaningful and discernible IR outputs. Extensive experiments on the HDRT dataset show that the proposed CapHDR2IR achieves state-of-the-art performance compared with existing general domain transfer methods and those tailored for visible-to-infrared image translation.
title CapHDR2IR: Caption-Driven Transfer from Visible Light to Infrared Domain
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16327