Realistic Saliency Guided Image Enhancement
Authors: name: S. Mahdi H. Miangoleh; name: Zoya Bylinskii; name: Eric Kee; name: Eli Shechtman; name: Yağız Aksoy
Published: 2023-06-09 17:52:34

Abstract: Common editing operations performed by professional photographers include the
cleanup operations: de-emphasizing distracting elements and enhancing subjects.
These edits are challenging, requiring a delicate balance between manipulating
the viewer's attention while maintaining photo realism. While recent approaches
can boast successful examples of attention attenuation or amplification, most
of them also suffer from frequent unrealistic edits. We propose a realism loss
for saliency-guided image enhancement to maintain high realism across varying
image types, while attenuating distractors and amplifying objects of interest.
Evaluations with professional photographers confirm that we achieve the dual
objective of realism and effectiveness, and outperform the recent approaches on
their own datasets, while requiring a smaller memory footprint and runtime. We
thus offer a viable solution for automating image enhancement and photo cleanup
operations.