Machine Learning Framework for dynamic image style evaluation
Short name: DeepQuality
Fogra no. 13.004
Project leader: M. Wimmer (Fogra) and Prof. Dr D. Merhof (LfB)
Partner: Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision at Aachen University
Funding: BMWK (IGF) via AiF
Timescale: 01.06.2020 - 31.05.2022
Objectives and Relevance
This research project had a closer look at the possibilities of automatization for professional retouch processes. These were investigated with the help of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Currently available tools on the market (2022) offer already a wide range of possibilities to improve the retouching process with AI but often lack in quality. Especially for professional retouches quality is often too low. The main reason for this lies in the data used for training the AI system. This is exactly where professional retouch companies can take a profit. They often have their big, own, and qualitatively high image material, which can be used to train AI systems. This research project shows, how companies can exploit their data resources and implement their own AI systems. That will help to automatize a lot of processes without losing any kind of quality.
Solution Steps
This research project shows how AI may improve, simplify and speed up the professional retouch process. The resulting quality of used AI systems heavily depends on the data used for training the AI system. If the image quality of the used data is low, also the results will be quite unsatisfying. On contrary, if image quality is quite good, one can also expect quite good results from AI systems. In the best case, the data is given in form of image pairs. One image shows the content before retouch and the other one afterward. In some cases, it may be possible to use data from two different categories, but not necessarily in pairs. In this research project, only data-driven AI systems are explored. This means that the quality of learned transformations depends heavily on data used for training.
Results
Further, the developed programming code is made public available in such a way that everyone can access, use and edit it easily directly in the web browser.
Meeting documents
Title | Version | Date | File type | Download |
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Slides of PA-meeting 2021-03-01 | V.1 | 01.03.2021 | Download | |
Slides of PA-meeting 2022-01-18 | 19.01.2022 | Download |