Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
Hybrid framework-based image bit-depth expansion method and device
The present disclosure provides a hybrid framework-based image bit-depth expansion method and device. The invention fuses a traditional de-banding algorithm and a depth network-based learning algorithm, and can remove unnatural effects in an image flat area whilst more realistically restoring numerical information of missing bits. The method comprises the extraction of image flat areas, local adaptive pixel value adjustment-based flat area bit-depth expansion and convolutional neural network-based non-flat area bit-depth expansion. The present invention uses a learning-based method to train an effective depth network to solve the problem of realistically restoring missing bits, whilst using a simple and robust local adaptive pixel value adjustment method in an flat area to effectively inhibit unnatural effects in the flat area such as banding, a ringing and flat noise, improving subjective visual quality of the flat area.
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