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Fieldscale: Locality-Aware Field-based Adaptive Rescaling for Thermal Infrared Image

arXiv 2405.15395 ↗First posted 24 May 2024cs.CVcited by 8

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Abstract (arXiv)

Thermal infrared (TIR) cameras are emerging as promising sensors in safety-related fields due to their robustness against external illumination. However, RAW TIR image has 14 bits of pixel depth and needs to be rescaled into 8 bits for general applications. Previous works utilize a global 1D look-up table to compute pixel-wise gain solely based on its intensity, which degrades image quality by failing to consider the local nature of the heat. We propose Fieldscale, a rescaling based on locality-aware 2D fields where both the intensity value and spatial context of each pixel within an image are embedded. It can adaptively determine the pixel gain for each region and produce spatially consistent 8-bit rescaled images with minimal information loss and high visibility. Consistent performance improvement on image quality assessment and two other downstream tasks support the effectiveness and usability of Fieldscale. All the codes are publicly opened to facilitate research advancements in this field. https://github.com/hyeonjaegil/fieldscale

Key facts. Cited by 8 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 26 of its 45 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 24 May 2024.

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Citing papers per year: 2024: 1; 2025: 4; 2026: 3.

8 papers.

  1. 2025Deep Depth Estimation from Thermal Image: Dataset, Benchmark, and Challengescited by 4
  2. 2024Thermal Chameleon: Task-Adaptive Tone-mapping for Radiometric Thermal-Infrared imagescited by 3
  3. 2025RGB-Thermal Infrared Fusion for Robust Depth Estimation in Complex Environmentscited by 1
  4. 2025TIR-Diffusion: Diffusion-based Thermal Infrared Image Denoising via Latent and Wavelet Domain Optimizationcited by 1
  5. 2025Layer Decomposition and Morphological Reconstruction for Task-Oriented Infrared Image Enhancementcited by 0
  6. 2026PTC-Depth: Pose-Refined Monocular Depth Estimation with Temporal Consistencycited by 0
  7. 2026TIDY: Thermal Infrared Image Denoising via Wavelet Domain Entropy and Directional Stripe Indexcited by 0
  8. 2026Aligned Radiometric RGB-Thermal Fusion for UAV Facade Anomaly Screeningcited by 0