Neural Color Operators for Sequential Image Retouching
Abstract
We propose a novel image retouching method by modeling the retouching process as performing a sequence of newly introduced trainable neural color operators. The neural color operator mimics the behavior of traditional color operators and learns pixelwise color transformation while its strength is controlled by a scalar. To reflect the homomorphism property of color operators, we employ equivariant mapping and adopt an encoder-decoder structure which maps the non-linear color transformation to a much simpler transformation (i.e., translation) in a high dimensional space. The scalar strength of each neural color operator is predicted using CNN based strength predictors by analyzing global image statistics. Overall, our method is rather lightweight and offers flexible controls. Experiments and user studies on public datasets show that our method consistently achieves the best results compared with SOTA methods in both quantitative measures and visual qualities. The code and pretrained models are provided at https://github.com/amberwangyili/neurop
Cite
@article{arxiv.2207.08080,
title = {Neural Color Operators for Sequential Image Retouching},
author = {Yili Wang and Xin Li and Kun Xu and Dongliang He and Qi Zhang and Fu Li and Errui Ding},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08080},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
Accepted to ECCV 2022. Code is available at https://github.com/amberwangyili/neurop