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Neural augmentation based panoramic high dynamic range stitching

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Chaobing Zheng
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Yilun Xu
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Weihai Chen
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Shiqian Wu
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Sen Zhang
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Zhengguo Li *
DOI:10.1016/j.neucom.2025.129726delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Due to saturated regions of inputting low dynamic range (LDR) images and large intensity changes among the LDR images caused by different exposures, it is challenging to produce an information enriched panoramic LDR image without visual artifacts fora high dynamic range (HDR) scene through stitching multiple geometrically synchronized LDR images with different exposures and pairwise overlapping fields of views (OFOVs). Fortunately, the stitching of such images is innately a perfect scenario for the fusion of a physics- driven approach and a data-driven approach due to their OFOVs. Based on this new insight, a novel neural augmentation based panoramic HDR stitching algorithm is proposed in this paper. The physics-driven approach is built up using the OFOVs. Different exposed images of each view are initially generated by using the physics- driven approach, are then refined by a data-driven approach, and are finally used to produce panoramic LDR images with different exposures. All the panoramic LDR images with different exposures are combined together via a multi-scale exposure fusion algorithm to produce the final panoramic LDR image. Experimental results demonstrate the proposed algorithm outperforms existing panoramic stitching algorithms.
Keywords:
High dynamic range imaging
Panoramic stitching
Computational photography
Weighted histogram averaging
Neural augmentation
Multi-scale exposure fusion

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Neurocomputing
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Beihang University
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agency for science technology & research (a*star)
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