Burstormer: Burst Image Restoration and Enhancement TransformerShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: 2023 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION, CVPR, IEEE COMPUTER SOC , 2023, p. 5703-5712Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
On a shutter press, modern handheld cameras capture multiple images in rapid succession and merge them to generate a single image. However, individual frames in a burst are misaligned due to inevitable motions and contain multiple degradations. The challenge is to properly align the successive image shots and merge their complimentary information to achieve high-quality outputs. Towards this direction, we propose Burstormer: a novel transformer-based architecture for burst image restoration and enhancement. In comparison to existing works, our approach exploits multi-scale local and non-local features to achieve improved alignment and feature fusion. Our key idea is to enable inter-frame communication in the burst neighborhoodsf or information aggregation and progressive fusion while modeling the burst-wide context. However, the input burst frames need to be properly aligned before fusing their information. Therefore, we propose an enhanced deformable alignment module for aligning burst features with regards to the reference frame. Unlike existing methods, the proposed alignment module not only aligns burst features but also exchanges feature information and maintains focused communication with the reference frame through the proposed reference-based feature enrichment mechanism, which facilitates handling complex motions. Aft er multi-level alignment and enrichment, we re-emphasize on inter-frame communication within burst using a cyclic burst sampling module. Finally, the inter-frame information is aggregated using the proposed burst feature fusion module followed by progressive upsampling. Our Burstormer outperforms state-of-the-art methods on burst super-resolution, burst denoising and burst low-light enhancement. Our codes and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/akshaydudhane16/Burstormer.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE COMPUTER SOC , 2023. p. 5703-5712
Series
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, ISSN 1063-6919, E-ISSN 2575-7075
National Category
Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-199149DOI: 10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.00552ISI: 001058542606005ISBN: 9798350301298 (electronic)ISBN: 9798350301304 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-199149DiVA, id: diva2:1811866
Conference
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vancouver, CANADA, jun 17-24, 2023
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