AIM 2020 Challenge on Learned Image Signal Processing Pipeline

This paper reviews the second AIM learned ISP challenge and provides the description of the proposed solutions and results. The participating teams were solving a real-world RAW-to-RGB mapping problem, where to goal was to map the original low-quality RAW images captured by the Huawei P20 device to the same photos obtained with the Canon 5D DSLR camera. The considered task embraced a number of complex computer vision subtasks, such as image demosaicing, denoising, white balancing, color and contrast correction, demoireing, etc. The target metric used in this challenge combined fidelity scores (PSNR and SSIM) with solutions' perceptual results measured in a user study. The proposed solutions significantly improved the baseline results, defining the state-of-the-art for practical image signal processing pipeline modeling.

Andrey Ignatov, Radu Timofte, Zhilu Zhang, Ming Liu, Haolin Wang, Wangmeng Zuo, Jiawei Zhang, Ruimao Zhang, Zhanglin Peng, Sijie Ren, Linhui Dai, Xiaohong Liu, Chengqi Li, Jun Chen, Yuichi Ito, Bhavya Vasudeva, Puneesh Deora, Umapada Pal, Zhenyu Guo, Yu Zhu, Tian Liang, Chenghua Li, Cong Leng, Zhihong Pan, Baopu Li, Byung-Hoon Kim, Joonyoung Song, Jong Chul Ye, JaeHyun Baek, Magauiya Zhussip, Yeskendir Koishekenov, Hwechul Cho Ye, Xin Liu, Xueying Hu, Jun Jiang, Jinwei Gu, Kai Li, Pengliang Tan, Bingxin Hou · 2020