A Maximum <italic>a Posteriori</italic> Estimation Framework for Robust High Dynamic Range Video Synthesis

DOI10.1109/TIP.2016.2642790zbMATH Open1409.94408DBLPjournals/tip/LiLM17arXiv1612.02761WikidataQ39062598 ScholiaQ39062598MaRDI QIDQ4618655FDOQ4618655

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Publication date: 5 February 2019

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: High dynamic range (HDR) image synthesis from multiple low dynamic range (LDR) exposures continues to be actively researched. The extension to HDR video synthesis is a topic of significant current interest due to potential cost benefits. For HDR video, a stiff practical challenge presents itself in the form of accurate correspondence estimation of objects between video frames. In particular, loss of data resulting from poor exposures and varying intensity make conventional optical flow methods highly inaccurate. We avoid exact correspondence estimation by proposing a statistical approach via maximum a posterior (MAP) estimation, and under appropriate statistical assumptions and choice of priors and models, we reduce it to an optimization problem of solving for the foreground and background of the target frame. We obtain the background through rank minimization and estimate the foreground via a novel multiscale adaptive kernel regression technique, which implicitly captures local structure and temporal motion by solving an unconstrained optimization problem. Extensive experimental results on both real and synthetic datasets demonstrate that our algorithm is more capable of delivering high-quality HDR videos than current state-of-the-art methods, under both subjective and objective assessments. Furthermore, a thorough complexity analysis reveals that our algorithm achieves better complexity-performance trade-off than conventional methods.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02761

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08)

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