Reversed Image Signal Processing and RAW Reconstruction. AIM 2022 Challenge Report

Cameras capture sensor RAW images and transform them into pleasant RGB images, suitable for the human eyes, using their integrated Image Signal Processor (ISP). Numerous low-level vision tasks operate in the RAW domain (e.g. image denoising, white balance) due to its linear relationship with the scene irradiance, wide-range of information at 12bits, and sensor designs. Despite this, RAW image datasets are scarce and more expensive to collect than the already large and public RGB datasets. This paper introduces the AIM 2022 Challenge on Reversed Image Signal Processing and RAW Reconstruction. We aim to recover raw sensor images from the corresponding RGBs without metadata and, by doing this, "reverse" the ISP transformation. The proposed methods and benchmark establish the state-of-the-art for this low-level vision inverse problem, and generating realistic raw sensor readings can potentially benefit other tasks such as denoising and super-resolution.

Marcos V. Conde, Radu Timofte, Yibin Huang, Jingyang Peng, Chang Chen, Cheng Li, Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero, Fenglong Song, Furui Bai, Shuai Liu, Chaoyu Feng, Xiaotao Wang, Lei Lei, Yu Zhu, Chenghua Li, Yingying Jiang, Yong A, Peisong Wang, Cong Leng, Jian Cheng, Xiaoyu Liu, Zhicun Yin, Zhilu Zhang, Junyi Li, Ming Liu, Wangmeng Zuo, Jun Jiang, Jinha Kim, Yue Zhang, Beiji Zou, Zhikai Zong, Xiaoxiao Liu, Juan Marín Vega, Michael Sloth, Peter Schneider-Kamp, Richard Röttger, Furkan K\inl\i, Bar\iş Özcan, Furkan K\iraç, Li Leyi, SM Nadim Uddin, Dipon Kumar Ghosh, Yong Ju Jung · 2022