Food Photo Enhancer of One Sample Generative Adversarial Network

Abstract

Image enhancement is an important branch in the field of image processing. A few existing methods leverage Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for this task. However, they have several defects when applied to a specific type of images, such as food photo. First, a large set of original-enhanced image pairs are required to train GANs that have millions of parameters. Such image pairs are expensive to acquire. Second, color distribution of enhanced images generated by previous methods is not consistent with the original ones, which is not expected. To alleviate the issues above, we propose a novel method for food photo enhancement. No original-enhanced image pairs are required except only original images. We investigate Food Faithful Color Semantic Rules in Enhanced Dataset Photo Enhancement (Faith-EDPE) and also carefully design a light generator which can preserve semantic relations among colors. We evaluate the proposed method on public benchmark databases to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method through visual results and user studies.