| Travis Portz | Li Zhang | Hongrui Jiang |
| (a) Constant Exposure | (b) Motion-based Auto Exposure | (c) Denoised Result of (b) |
Traditional cameras set exposure time based on scene brightness; camera or subject motion leads to motion blur (a). New cameras (e.g., Canon SD1100 and Nikon COOLPIX S8100) compenstate exposure time for photo capture using motion detection; large motion results in noisy images with short exposure and high ISO. We build a prototype camera system that uses this idea in video capture (b) and propose a new method for video denoising in the context of motion-based exposure control (c). Our method outperforms previous methods by exploiting high quality frames in a video to enhance low quality frames and selectively operating in whichever regime state-of-the-art spatial or temporal denoising methods work best.
Related project: Optical Flow in the Presence of Spatially-Varying Motion Blur
Travis Portz, Li Zhang, Hongrui Jiang. High-quality Video Denoising for Motion-based Exposure Control. IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Vision, November 2011. [PDF 2.8MB] Best Paper Honorable Mention.
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This work is supported in part by NSF EFRI-0937847, NSF IIS-0845916, NSF IIS-0916441, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Travis Portz is also supported by a University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate fellowship.
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If optical flow is involved in comparing denosing performance, we use our flow as input for both our denoising and others (e.g. Liu and Freeman [13]) for fair comparison, unless otherwise specified.