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Work Presented at CIC31: Color and Imaging 2023
Volume: 67 | Article ID: 050409
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Multi-Attention Guided SKFHDRNet For HDR Video Reconstruction
  DOI :  10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2023.67.5.050409  Published Online :  September 2023
Abstract
Abstract

We propose a three stage learning-based approach for High Dynamic Range (HDR) video reconstruction with alternating exposures. The first stage performs alignment of neighboring frames to the reference frame by estimating the flows between them, the second stage is composed of multi-attention modules and a pyramid cascading deformable alignment module to refine aligned features, and the final stage merges and estimates the final HDR scene using a series of dilated selective kernel fusion residual dense blocks (DSKFRDBs) to fill the over-exposed regions with details. The proposed model variants give HDR-VDP-2 values on a dynamic dataset of 79.12, 78.49, and 78.89 respectively, compared to Chen et al. [“HDR video reconstruction: A coarse-to-fine network and a real-world benchmark dataset,” Proc. IEEE/CVF Int’l. Conf. on Computer Vision (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2021), pp. 2502–2511] 79.09, Yan et al. [“Attention-guided network for ghost-free high dynamic range imaging,” Proc. IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2019), pp. 1751–1760] 78.69, Kalantari et al. [“Patch-based high dynamic range video,” ACM Trans. Graph. 32 (2013) 202–1] 70.36, and Kalantari et al. [“Deep hdr video from sequences with alternating exposures,” Computer Graphics Forum (Wiley Online Library, 2019), Vol. 38, pp. 193–205] 77.91. We achieve better detail reproduction and alignment in over-exposed regions compared to state-of-the-art methods and with a smaller number of parameters.

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Ehsan Ullah, Marius Pedersen, Kjartan Sebastian Waaseth, Bernt-Erik Baltzersen, "Multi-Attention Guided SKFHDRNet For HDR Video Reconstruction"  in Journal of Imaging Science and Technology,  2023,  pp 1 - 19,  https://doi.org/10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2023.67.5.050409

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  • received June 2023
  • accepted August 2023
  • PublishedSeptember 2023