Boosting HDR Image Reconstruction via Semantic Knowledge Transfer

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Main Authors: Hu, Tao, Wu, Longyao, Dong, Wei, Wu, Peng, Sun, Jinqiu, Xu, Xiaogang, Yan, Qingsen, Zhang, Yanning
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author Hu, Tao
Wu, Longyao
Dong, Wei
Wu, Peng
Sun, Jinqiu
Xu, Xiaogang
Yan, Qingsen
Zhang, Yanning
author_facet Hu, Tao
Wu, Longyao
Dong, Wei
Wu, Peng
Sun, Jinqiu
Xu, Xiaogang
Yan, Qingsen
Zhang, Yanning
contents Recovering High Dynamic Range (HDR) images from multiple Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) images become challenging when the SDR images exhibit noticeable degradation and missing content. Leveraging scene-specific semantic priors offers a promising solution for restoring heavily degraded regions. However, these priors are typically extracted from sRGB SDR images, the domain/format gap poses a significant challenge when applying it to HDR imaging. To address this issue, we propose a general framework that transfers semantic knowledge derived from SDR domain via self-distillation to boost existing HDR reconstruction. Specifically, the proposed framework first introduces the Semantic Priors Guided Reconstruction Model (SPGRM), which leverages SDR image semantic knowledge to address ill-posed problems in the initial HDR reconstruction results. Subsequently, we leverage a self-distillation mechanism that constrains the color and content information with semantic knowledge, aligning the external outputs between the baseline and SPGRM. Furthermore, to transfer the semantic knowledge of the internal features, we utilize a Semantic Knowledge Alignment Module (SKAM) to fill the missing semantic contents with the complementary masks. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our framework significantly boosts HDR imaging quality for existing methods without altering the network architecture.
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spellingShingle Boosting HDR Image Reconstruction via Semantic Knowledge Transfer
Hu, Tao
Wu, Longyao
Dong, Wei
Wu, Peng
Sun, Jinqiu
Xu, Xiaogang
Yan, Qingsen
Zhang, Yanning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Recovering High Dynamic Range (HDR) images from multiple Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) images become challenging when the SDR images exhibit noticeable degradation and missing content. Leveraging scene-specific semantic priors offers a promising solution for restoring heavily degraded regions. However, these priors are typically extracted from sRGB SDR images, the domain/format gap poses a significant challenge when applying it to HDR imaging. To address this issue, we propose a general framework that transfers semantic knowledge derived from SDR domain via self-distillation to boost existing HDR reconstruction. Specifically, the proposed framework first introduces the Semantic Priors Guided Reconstruction Model (SPGRM), which leverages SDR image semantic knowledge to address ill-posed problems in the initial HDR reconstruction results. Subsequently, we leverage a self-distillation mechanism that constrains the color and content information with semantic knowledge, aligning the external outputs between the baseline and SPGRM. Furthermore, to transfer the semantic knowledge of the internal features, we utilize a Semantic Knowledge Alignment Module (SKAM) to fill the missing semantic contents with the complementary masks. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our framework significantly boosts HDR imaging quality for existing methods without altering the network architecture.
title Boosting HDR Image Reconstruction via Semantic Knowledge Transfer
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15361