학술논문

NTIRE 2022 Challenge on High Dynamic Range Imaging: Methods and Results
Document Type
Conference
Source
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) CVPRW Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on. :1008-1022 Jun, 2022
Subject
Computing and Processing
Computer vision
Runtime
Conferences
Imaging
Dynamic range
Particle measurements
Market research
Language
ISSN
2160-7516
Abstract
This paper reviews the challenge on constrained high dynamic range (HDR) imaging that was part of the New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (NTIRE) workshop, held in conjunction with CVPR 2022. This manuscript focuses on the competition set-up, datasets, the proposed methods and their results. The challenge aims at estimating an HDR image from multiple respective low dynamic range (LDR) observations, which might suffer from under-or over-exposed regions and different sources of noise. The challenge is composed of two tracks with an emphasis on fidelity and complexity constraints: In Track 1, participants are asked to optimize objective fidelity scores while imposing a low-complexity constraint (i.e. solutions can not exceed a given number of operations). In Track 2, participants are asked to minimize the complexity of their solutions while imposing a constraint on fidelity scores (i.e. solutions are required to obtain a higher fidelity score than the prescribed baseline). Both tracks use the same data and metrics: Fidelity is measured by means of PSNR with respect to a ground-truth HDR image (computed both directly and with a canonical tonemapping operation), while complexity metrics include the number of Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) operations and runtime (in seconds).