Deep unsupervised image smoothing with dynamic guidance
摘要
Image smoothing plays a critical role in various image processing tasks such as detail enhancement, HDR tone mapping and non-photorealistic rendering. The global optimization model is an essential instrument for image smoothing, due to the excellent smoothing quality. However, most of them are based on static guidance, thus may struggle to balance between detail smoothing and edge preservation. In this paper, we propose a novel optimization model with dynamic guidance for image smoothing, which significantly improves the smoothing quality. To solve the proposed model, we proposed a novel iterative solution based on the plug and play framework, where the main computational burden in each iteration is a weighted least square model that can be efficiently solved with unsupervised learning. We have conducted extensive experiments to evaluate the proposed filter. Both quantitative and qualitative results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method on various applications. Our filter is efficient, it is able to process 720P color images at interactive rates.