Presentation 2017-03-06
A Study on HDR Image Generation Method from an SDR Image Using Deep Neural Networks
Katsuhiko Hirao, Masaru Takeuchi, Jiro Katto,
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Abstract(in English) In this paper, we propose a deep learning method to generate an HDR image from a single SDR image with restoring over and under exposed regions. Firstly, as a preliminary experiment, we regard SDR images as pseudo HDR images, linearly reduce their dynamic ranges as pseudo SDR images, and then train DNN (Deep Neural Network) to generate the end-to-end mapping from pseudo SDR images to pseudo HDR images. Thereafter we show the effectivity of our method by PSNR evaluation. Secondly, as a main experiment, we generate SDR images from HDR images using tone mapping, then try to generate an HDR image from an SDR image using DNN.
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Keyword(in English) Deep Learning / HDR / SDR / Image Restoration
Paper # IMQ2016-26,IE2016-141,MVE2016-49
Date of Issue 2017-02-27 (IMQ, IE, MVE)

Conference Information
Committee MVE / IE / CQ / IMQ
Conference Date 2017/3/6(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Kyusyu Univ. Ohashi Campus
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Five senses media, Multimedia, Virtual Environment, Image encoding, Ultra realistic, Network quality and reliability, Image media quality, etc.
Chair Yoshinari Kameda(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Seishi Takamura(NTT) / Kyoko Yamori(Asahi Univ.) / Yuukou Horita(Univ. of Toyama)
Vice Chair Kenji Mase(Nagoya Univ.) / Takayuki Hamamoto(Tokyo Univ. of Science) / Atsuro Ichigaya(NHK) / Takanori Hayashi(NTT) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(NEC) / Kenji Sugiyama(Seikei Univ.) / Toshiya Nakaguchi(Chiba Univ.)
Secretary Kenji Mase(Kyushu Univ.) / Takayuki Hamamoto(Kyoto Univ.) / Atsuro Ichigaya(NTT) / Takanori Hayashi(NTT) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(Chiba Inst. of Tech.) / Kenji Sugiyama(Osaka Univ.) / Toshiya Nakaguchi(Keio Univ.)
Assistant Hideaki Uchiyama(Kyushu Univ.) / Takatsugu Hirayama(Nagoya Univ.) / Ryosuke Aoki(NTT) / Kei Kawamura(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Keita Takahashi(Nagoya Univ.) / Hirantha Abeysekera(NTT) / Norihiro Fukumoto(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Shinichiro Saito(Sony) / Masaru Tsuchida(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Multimedia and Virtual Environment / Technical Committee on Image Engineering / Technical Committee on Communication Quality / Technical Committee on Image Media Quality
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) A Study on HDR Image Generation Method from an SDR Image Using Deep Neural Networks
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Deep Learning
Keyword(2) HDR
Keyword(3) SDR
Keyword(4) Image Restoration
1st Author's Name Katsuhiko Hirao
1st Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Masaru Takeuchi
2nd Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Jiro Katto
3rd Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
Date 2017-03-06
Paper # IMQ2016-26,IE2016-141,MVE2016-49
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) IMQ-494,IE-495,MVE-496
Page pp.pp.37-42(IMQ), pp.37-42(IE), pp.37-42(MVE),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-02-27 (IMQ, IE, MVE)