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Variational models for color image correction inspired by visual perception and neuroscience

Thomas Batard
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Johannes Hertrich
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Gabriele Steidl
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Abstract

Reproducing the perception of a real-world scene on a display device is a very challenging task which requires the understanding of the camera processing pipeline, the display process, and the way the human visual system processes the light it captures. Mathematical models based on psychophysical and physiological laws on color vision, named Retinex, provide efficient tools to handle degradations produced during the camera processing pipeline like the reduction of the contrast. In particular, Batard and Bertalmío [J Math. Imag. Vis. 60(6), 849-881 (2018)] described some psy-chophysical laws on brightness perception as covariant derivatives, included them into a variational model, and observed that the quality of the color image correction is correlated with the accuracy of the vision model it includes. Based on this observation, we postulate that this model can be improved by including more accurate data on vision with a special attention on visual neuro-science here. Then, inspired by the presence of neurons responding to different visual attributes in the area V1 of the visual cortex as orientation, color or movement, to name a few, and horizontal connections modeling the interactions between those neurons, we construct two variational models to process both local (edges, textures) and global (contrast) features. This is an improvement with respect to the model of Batard and Bertalmío as the latter can not process local and global features independently and simultaneously. Finally, we conduct experiments on color images which corroborate the improvement provided by the new models.
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hal-02463731 , version 1 (01-02-2020)
hal-02463731 , version 2 (17-06-2020)

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Thomas Batard, Johannes Hertrich, Gabriele Steidl. Variational models for color image correction inspired by visual perception and neuroscience. 2020. ⟨hal-02463731v2⟩
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