AIM 2019 Challenge on Image Demoireing: Methods and Results
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Shanxin Yuan, Radu Timofte, Gregory Slabaugh, Ales Leonardis, Bolun Zheng, Xin Ye, Xiang Tian, Yaowu Chen, Xi Cheng, Zhenyong Fu
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Jian Yang, Ming Hong, Wenying Lin, Wenjin Yang, Yanyun Qu, Hong-Kyu Shin, Joon-Yeon Kim, Sung-Jea Ko, Hang Dong, Yu Guo, Jie Wang, Xuan Ding, Zongyan Han, Sourya Dipta Das, Kuldeep Purohit, Praveen Kandula, Maitreya Suin, A. N. Rajagopalan
/ Abstract
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.