Pan-Sharpening with Color-Aware Perceptual Loss and Guided Re-Colorization

We present a novel color-aware perceptual (CAP) loss for learning the task of pan-sharpening. Our CAP loss is designed to focus on the deep features of a pre-trained VGG network that are more sensitive to spatial details and ignore color information to allow the network to extract the structural inf...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2020-06
Main Authors: Gonzalez Bello, Juan Luis, Seo, Soomin, Kim, Munchurl
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Color
Colorization
Image enhancement
Pixels
Sharpening
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Summary:We present a novel color-aware perceptual (CAP) loss for learning the task of pan-sharpening. Our CAP loss is designed to focus on the deep features of a pre-trained VGG network that are more sensitive to spatial details and ignore color information to allow the network to extract the structural information from the PAN image while keeping the color from the lower resolution MS image. Additionally, we propose "guided re-colorization", which generates a pan-sharpened image with real colors from the MS input by "picking" the closest MS pixel color for each pan-sharpened pixel, as a human operator would do in manual colorization. Such a re-colorized (RC) image is completely aligned with the pan-sharpened (PS) network output and can be used as a self-supervision signal during training, or to enhance the colors in the PS image during test. We present several experiments where our network trained with our CAP loss generates naturally looking pan-sharpened images with fewer artifacts and outperforms the state-of-the-arts on the WorldView3 dataset in terms of ERGAS, SCC, and QNR metrics.
ISSN:2331-8422