AIM 2019 Challenge on Image Demoireing: Methods and Results
This challenge addresses the problem of image quality restoration for photography and display applications, but it is incremental as it builds on existing demoireing methods.
The paper reviews the first image demoireing challenge, which tackled the problem of removing moire patterns from images, resulting in a new dataset of 10,200 synthetic pairs and participation from 60 and 39 teams across two tracks.
This paper reviews the first-ever image demoireing challenge that was part of the Advances in Image Manipulation (AIM) workshop, held in conjunction with ICCV 2019. This paper describes the challenge, and focuses on the proposed solutions and their results. Demoireing is a difficult task of removing moire patterns from an image to reveal an underlying clean image. A new dataset, called LCDMoire was created for this challenge, and consists of 10,200 synthetically generated image pairs (moire and clean ground truth). The challenge was divided into 2 tracks. Track 1 targeted fidelity, measuring the ability of demoire methods to obtain a moire-free image compared with the ground truth, while Track 2 examined the perceptual quality of demoire methods. The tracks had 60 and 39 registered participants, respectively. A total of eight teams competed in the final testing phase. The entries span the current the state-of-the-art in the image demoireing problem.