Browsing by Author "Thabet, Ali"

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    Reconfigurable Snapshot HDR Imaging Using Coded Masks and Inception Network
    (The Eurographics Association, 2019) Alghamdi, Masheal; Fu, Qiang; Thabet, Ali; Heidrich, Wolfgang ; Schulz, Hans-Jörg and Teschner, Matthias and Wimmer, Michael
    High Dynamic Range (HDR) image acquisition from a single image capture, also known as snapshot HDR imaging, is challenging because the bit depths of camera sensors are far from sufficient to cover the full dynamic range of the scene. Existing HDR techniques focus either on algorithmic reconstruction or hardware modification to extend the dynamic range. In this paper we propose a joint design for snapshot HDR imaging by devising a spatially-varying modulation mask in the hardware as well as building an inception network to reconstruct the HDR image. We achieve a reconfigurable HDR camera design that does not require custom sensors, and instead can be reconfigured between HDR and conventional mode with very simple calibration steps. We demonstrate that the proposed hardware-software solution offers a flexible yet robust way to modulating per-pixel exposures, and the network requires little knowledge of the hardware to faithfully reconstruct the HDR image. Comparison results show that our method outperforms state of the art in terms of visual perception quality.
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    Transfer Deep Learning for Reconfigurable Snapshot HDR Imaging Using Coded Masks
    (© 2021 Eurographics ‐ The European Association for Computer Graphics and John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2021) Alghamdi, Masheal; Fu, Qiang; Thabet, Ali; Heidrich, Wolfgang; Benes, Bedrich and Hauser, Helwig
    High dynamic range (HDR) image acquisition from a single image capture, also known as snapshot HDR imaging, is challenging because the bit depths of camera sensors are far from sufficient to cover the full dynamic range of the scene. Existing HDR techniques focus either on algorithmic reconstruction or hardware modification to extend the dynamic range. In this paper we propose a joint design for snapshot HDR imaging by devising a spatially varying modulation mask in the hardware and building a deep learning algorithm to reconstruct the HDR image. We leverage transfer learning to overcome the lack of sufficiently large HDR datasets available. We show how transferring from a different large‐scale task (image classification on ImageNet) leads to considerable improvements in HDR reconstruction. We achieve a reconfigurable HDR camera design that does not require custom sensors, and instead can be reconfigured between HDR and conventional mode with very simple calibration steps. We demonstrate that the proposed hardware–software so lution offers a flexible yet robust way to modulate per‐pixel exposures, and the network requires little knowledge of the hardware to faithfully reconstruct the HDR image. Comparison results show that our method outperforms the state of the art in terms of visual perception quality.