4.5CVJul 9
Leveraging Color Naming for Image EnhancementDavid Serrano-Lozano, Luis Herranz, Michael S. Brown et al.
Enhancing images to make them visually appealing is a persistent challenge in computer vision. Many deep-learning methods train models on paired datasets to replicate expert editing styles. However, these approaches struggle with two key issues: (1) interpretability and (2) a parametrization suitable for user adjustments. To address these challenges, we present NamedCurves+, an approach inspired by the concept of Color Naming, a universal set of familiar colors widely used in software tools for intuitive editing. Our method integrates color names into a learning-based framework, enabling global adjustments for each named color through tone curves. To address local image variations, we incorporate a transformer block that captures spatial dependencies, enabling context-aware edits across the image. NamedCurves+ enhances the retouching process's interpretability and supports user interaction, allowing flexible modifications of individual tone curves to refine the retouched image according to personal preferences. Extensive experiments on tasks such as image retouching, tone mapping, and exposure correction demonstrate that NamedCurves+ outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Notably, our approach is both explainable, as the tone curves explicitly represent how each color name contributes to the enhancement, and interactive, allowing users to customize the retouching process and achieve results tailored to their liking.
8.6GRMay 19
GLUT: 3D Gaussian Lookup Table for Continuous Color TransformationDanna Xue, David Serrano-Lozano, Shaolin Su et al.
3D Lookup Tables (3D LUTs) are widely used for color mapping, but their grid-based representation requires discretizing the RGB space, leading to a capacity-memory trade-off that becomes prohibitive when storing large numbers of LUTs. Recent approaches adopt implicit neural representations to improve scalability, yet their black-box nature limits interpretability and hinders intuitive, localized editing. In this paper, we propose Gaussian LUT (GLUT), a continuous and explicit color representation that models color transformations using a set of learnable 3D Gaussian primitives. By avoiding fixed-resolution grids, GLUT achieves flexible representational capacity while maintaining a compact memory footprint. Its explicit, spatially localized formulation further enables both accurate modeling and interpretability. Building on this representation, we introduce a compact conditional generator (CGLUT) that predicts GLUT parameters for multiple LUT instances, encoding diverse color styles in a single framework to enable smooth and controllable LUT style blending. Moreover, GLUT supports efficient, user-friendly editing by allowing localized adjustments to specific color regions without global retraining. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach outperforms prior neural LUT representations in both accuracy and efficiency, while offering improved interpretability and interactive control.
NamedCurves: Learned Image Enhancement via Color NamingDavid Serrano-Lozano, Luis Herranz, Michael S. Brown et al.
A popular method for enhancing images involves learning the style of a professional photo editor using pairs of training images comprised of the original input with the editor-enhanced version. When manipulating images, many editing tools offer a feature that allows the user to manipulate a limited selection of familiar colors. Editing by color name allows easy adjustment of elements like the "blue" of the sky or the "green" of trees. Inspired by this approach to color manipulation, we propose NamedCurves, a learning-based image enhancement technique that separates the image into a small set of named colors. Our method learns to globally adjust the image for each specific named color via tone curves and then combines the images using an attention-based fusion mechanism to mimic spatial editing. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method against several competing methods on the well-known Adobe 5K dataset and the PPR10K dataset, showing notable improvements.
4.0CVJan 23
SyncLight: Controllable and Consistent Multi-View RelightingDavid Serrano-Lozano, Anand Bhattad, Luis Herranz et al.
We present SyncLight, the first method to enable consistent, parametric relighting across multiple uncalibrated views of a static scene. While single-view relighting has advanced significantly, existing generative approaches struggle to maintain the rigorous lighting consistency essential for multi-camera broadcasts, stereoscopic cinema, and virtual production. SyncLight addresses this by enabling precise control over light intensity and color across a multi-view capture of a scene, conditioned on a single reference edit. Our method leverages a multi-view diffusion transformer trained using a latent bridge matching formulation, achieving high-fidelity relighting of the entire image set in a single inference step. To facilitate training, we introduce a large-scale hybrid dataset comprising diverse synthetic environments -- curated from existing sources and newly designed scenes -- alongside high-fidelity, real-world multi-view captures under calibrated illumination. Surprisingly, though trained only on image pairs, SyncLight generalizes zero-shot to an arbitrary number of viewpoints, effectively propagating lighting changes across all views, without requiring camera pose information. SyncLight enables practical relighting workflows for multi-view capture systems.
Adaptive Blind All-in-One Image RestorationDavid Serrano-Lozano, Luis Herranz, Shaolin Su et al.
Blind all-in-one image restoration models aim to recover a high-quality image from an input degraded with unknown distortions. However, these models require all the possible degradation types to be defined during the training stage while showing limited generalization to unseen degradations, which limits their practical application in complex cases. In this paper, we introduce ABAIR, a simple yet effective adaptive blind all-in-one restoration model that not only handles multiple degradations and generalizes well to unseen distortions but also efficiently integrates new degradations by training only a small subset of parameters. We first train our baseline model on a large dataset of natural images with multiple synthetic degradations. To enhance its ability to recognize distortions, we incorporate a segmentation head that estimates per-pixel degradation types. Second, we adapt our initial model to varying image restoration tasks using independent low-rank adapters. Third, we learn to adaptively combine adapters to versatile images via a flexible and lightweight degradation estimator. This specialize-then-merge approach is both powerful in addressing specific distortions and flexible in adapting to complex tasks. Moreover, our model not only surpasses state-of-the-art performance on five- and three-task IR setups but also demonstrates superior generalization to unseen degradations and composite distortions.
8.4CVMar 18, 2025
Revisiting Image Fusion for Multi-Illuminant White-Balance CorrectionDavid Serrano-Lozano, Aditya Arora, Luis Herranz et al.
White balance (WB) correction in scenes with multiple illuminants remains a persistent challenge in computer vision. Recent methods explored fusion-based approaches, where a neural network linearly blends multiple sRGB versions of an input image, each processed with predefined WB presets. However, we demonstrate that these methods are suboptimal for common multi-illuminant scenarios. Additionally, existing fusion-based methods rely on sRGB WB datasets lacking dedicated multi-illuminant images, limiting both training and evaluation. To address these challenges, we introduce two key contributions. First, we propose an efficient transformer-based model that effectively captures spatial dependencies across sRGB WB presets, substantially improving upon linear fusion techniques. Second, we introduce a large-scale multi-illuminant dataset comprising over 16,000 sRGB images rendered with five different WB settings, along with WB-corrected images. Our method achieves up to 100\% improvement over existing techniques on our new multi-illuminant image fusion dataset.