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Oneta: Multi-Style Image Enhancement Using Eigentransformation Functions

T0 review · 3 major / 5 minor · reviewed 2026-08-06 · deepseek-v4-flash

Pith's one-line read A single vision transformer with switchable style tokens can handle six image-enhancement tasks across 30 datasets.

desk verdict A clever multi-style enhancement framework with a mislabeled oracle ceiling and an overstated headline claim; worth refereeing for the mechanism, not for the numbers. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.23547 v1 pith:WIHXVBO6 submitted 2025-06-30 cs.CV

classification cs.CV
keywords Onetamulti-styleimageenhancementstyletokeneigentransformationfunctionvisiontransformerintensitylookuptablecolorcorrectionmatrixlow-light
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

Oneta is presented as the first multi-style image enhancement network: one model that can retouch, process camera raw signals, brighten low-light images, dehaze, enhance underwater photos, and white-balance by switching a learned style token. The paper's central claim is that all 30 datasets' enhancement mappings reduce to two global pixelwise operations—an intensity transformation function followed by a $3\times3$ color correction matrix—and that this two-step model has a high PSNR (peak signal-to-noise ratio) upper bound on most datasets. To make the intensity curve tractable, Oneta represents it in an 'eigentransformation function' basis, predicting only ten coefficients. On 20 of the 30 datasets the single network reports PSNR comparable to task-specific algorithms, which would matter because it replaces many separately trained systems with one checkpoint.

What carries the argument

The central object is the eigentransformation function (eigenTF): the first $M$ left singular vectors of the matrix of per-image optimal intensity transformation functions, obtained by SVD, so that any $256$-point lookup table is reconstructed as a linear combination of $M$ basis curves. Oneta's Y-Net regresses the $M$ coefficients from image patches attended by the selected style token, and C-Net regresses the six free entries of the $3\times3$ color correction matrix from the intermediate image. Quadratic programming supplies both the upper-bound ceiling and the regression targets for this two-step model, and the style tokens make the same weights switchable across datasets.

What would settle it

Recompute the QP upper bound on a held-out split for each of the 30 datasets: any dataset where that ceiling is below the best specialized baseline falsifies the claim that Oneta's global two-step model can match specialized methods there, and any dataset where Oneta sits far below its own ceiling would show a network-capacity failure instead.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

Oneta's discovery is that multi-style enhancement can be organized as a single token-conditioned prediction problem. The network uses a ViT-based Y-Net to predict coefficients of the intensity transformation function and a ViT-based C-Net to predict the color correction matrix, with a learned style token selecting which of $K$ enhancement styles is active. The paper derives the optimal transformation function and color matrix for each training pair by quadratic programming, uses those solutions both as an upper-bound analysis and as training targets, and compresses the $256$-point intensity functions into an $M$-dimensional eigenTF space by SVD, with $M=10$. The reported result is that this single network matches specialized per-task models on 20 datasets and beats the best low-light baseline on LOL-v2-real by more than 5 dB.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that every dataset's input-to-output mapping can be represented by one global $256$-step intensity lookup table followed by one $3\times3$ color matrix applied identically to all pixels; the paper's own upper-bound numbers show this premise fails on SID and SOTS, where the model-class ceiling is 20.40 dB versus 24.44 dB and 22.35 dB versus 42.56 dB, respectively.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • With one trained checkpoint, a user can retouch the same photo in eight expert styles, enhance a low-light photo in seven styles, or apply styles in series by switching or combining tokens.
  • Multi-style training is the better training strategy: on most datasets it beats training the same architecture on each dataset alone, and on the 689-image LOL-v2-real set it gains more than 5 dB over the best single-task baseline.
  • Interpolating style tokens yields output images in intermediate styles, so the token set behaves like a discrete sampling of a continuous enhancement-style space.
  • The QP upper bound is a hard ceiling for the two-point-operator model class; on SID and SOTS it is already below specialized baselines, so no extra capacity in this class can close those gaps.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The paper leaves unexplored the possibility of treating style tokens as a continuous control dial, letting users blend styles or extrapolate to enhancement styles not present in training.
  • The QP ceiling calculation is reusable as a cheap feasibility test for any global enhancement design: compute the two-point-operator ceiling on a target dataset before training to decide whether global operations suffice or local refinements are required.
  • Because LLIE and ISP inputs are preprocessed differently from the baselines, a direct comparison on identical preprocessed inputs would separate preprocessing effects from the model's own behavior, especially on SID and SOTS.
  • If the eigenTF basis is shared across all 30 styles, each style reduces to ten coefficients plus six color matrix entries, which could serve as a compact style descriptor for transferring or editing enhancement styles between images.
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Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Oneta, a single ViT-based network that performs multi-style image enhancement across six tasks (retouching, ISP, LLIE, dehazing, UIE, white balancing) using K learnable style tokens. The enhancement model consists of an intensity transformation function (TF), compactly represented in an eigenTF basis, followed by a color correction matrix (CCM). The authors report PSNR comparisons against task-specific baselines on 30 datasets, and they present a quadratic-programming-based oracle analysis intended to show that the two-step model class has high performance ceilings. The paper is candid about several weak points, including failure cases and datasets where Oneta underperforms.

Significance. If the claims were fully supported, the paper would demonstrate that a single, parameter-light network with switchable tokens can cover a broad range of enhancement tasks, and that a simple global two-step model has substantial representational capacity. The oracle analysis, style-token mechanism, and extensive dataset coverage are valuable. However, the validity of the oracle computation and the fairness of the preprocessing protocol are load-bearing; until these are resolved, the central claims about model-class sufficiency and cross-task effectiveness are not established.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. 3.2, Eqs. (5)-(6)] The numbers labeled 'Upper bound' in Table 1 are not valid upper bounds on the two-step model class. The optimization of the TF in Eq. (5) and the CCM in Eq. (6) is performed sequentially, not jointly. The full objective is bilinear in the TF x and the CCM kappa because the intermediate image, and hence the matrix B in Eq. (6), depends on x. The reported procedure therefore yields a feasible point, and the resulting PSNR is a lower bound on the true oracle optimum, not an upper bound. For instance, the SOTS-in row reports 22.35 dB, but a jointly optimized TF+CCM could in principle achieve a higher PSNR, potentially even exceeding the 42.56 dB of C2PNet. This weakens the conclusion in Sec. 4.3 that the two-step global model is insufficient for dehazing and SID. The authors should either compute a proper upper bound (e.g., by alternating optimization or a discretized search over TFs) or relabel the row as 'QP feasible PSNR' and rephrase the model-sufficiency conclusions accordingly.
  2. [Sec. 4.1 and Supplement A] The input preprocessing protocol may confound the comparison with baselines. LLIE images are pre-processed with BT.709 gamma correction and a bilateral filter, and ISP images are gamma-corrected, but the paper does not state that the baselines (Retinexformer, SNR-Net, InvISP, ParamISP, etc.) received the same preprocessing. If they did not, the 5.1 dB margin over Retinexformer on LOL-v2-real (27.91 dB vs. 22.80 dB) could be entirely due to the input transformation rather than to Oneta's enhancement capability. The authors should rerun all baselines under identical preprocessing, or provide a clear justification (e.g., showing that gamma correction alone changes baseline PSNR negligibly).
  3. [Abstract and Sec. 4.3] The abstract claims that Oneta 'can effectively undertake six enhancement tasks across 30 datasets,' but the paper's own Table 1 shows substantial failures: On SOTS-in and SOTS-out, Oneta is about 20-22 dB behind the best dehazing baselines, and on SID it is more than 6 dB behind Retinexformer. While Sec. 4.3 and footnote 1 narrow this claim, the abstract and introduction do not. The authors should qualify the claim in the abstract to say that Oneta achieves comparable performance on 20 of the 30 datasets and underperforms on the remaining ones, matching the more cautious language in Sec. 4.3.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Fig. 31] The caption reads 'Dehzing results' and should be corrected to 'Dehazing results.'
  2. [Eq. (7)] The row sum constraint is written as 'P3 j=1 κij = 1for each i' with a missing space; it should be 'Σ_{j=1}^3 κ_ij = 1 for each i.'
  3. [Sec. 3.2] The definition of the matrix A would be clearer if the paper explicitly stated that each row of A is a one-hot vector with a single 1 at the column corresponding to the input intensity, and that the number of rows N equals the number of pixels.
  4. [Table 1 caption] The caption lists 'Upper bound' without explaining the methodology; a short note pointing to Sec. 3.2 and Supplement B would help readers interpret this row.
  5. [Supplement D.4] The inference-only monotonicity post-processing (setting x_k = x_{k-1} when x_k < x_{k-1}) is an ad-hoc fix; the authors should state whether any monotonicity regularization is included in the training loss, because otherwise the train/test setup is inconsistent.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged · score 2.0 of 10

No material circularity; oracle ceilings are external model-class estimates, and self-citations are background only.

full rationale

The paper's central derivation—a two-step global TF+CCM model with eigenTF compression and token-switched ViT predictors—is evaluated against external benchmarks. The 'Upper bound' row in Table 1 is obtained by fitting the model's parameters with quadratic programming to ground-truth test images (Eqs. 5-6), which is a legitimate oracle/capacity analysis, not a network prediction; the network is then trained on training pairs (Eq. 12) and tested on held-out data, so the reported PSNRs are not fitted inputs renamed as predictions. The eigenTF basis is a standard SVD low-rank approximation of oracle TFs, not a self-justifying construction. The paper's few self-citations (e.g., [21], [24]) appear only as related-work background and do not carry the argument. Two issues noted by the reader—the sequential QP solution of Eqs. (5)-(6) means the reported 'upper bound' may not be a true joint upper bound, and LLIE/ISP inputs are preprocessed differently from baselines—are correctness/fairness concerns rather than circularity. The paper itself narrows the 'all' claim in footnote 1 and acknowledges SID/dehazing shortcomings in Sec. 4.3, further reducing any concern that the headline overpromises by construction.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on a dominant modeling assumption: that a spatially uniform two-step point-operator model suffices for all six tasks. The paper's own QP ceiling refutes this for dehazing (SOTS-in ceiling 22.35 dB vs C2PNet 42.56 dB) and hard low-light (SID ceiling 20.40 dB vs 24.44 dB), so the assumption is false by the paper's numbers on those tasks. The two learned components, the eigentransformation basis and the 30 style tokens, are both fit to the training data and are not externally verified. Hyperparameters M=10 and lambda=0.1 are set by a partial ablation and by hand. One ad hoc inference-only rule (monotonicity post-processing) introduces a train/test mismatch. Net: the honest contribution is a demonstrated multi-style conditioning mechanism plus an oracle-ceiling methodology, with the model class itself being the principal limitation.

free parameters (4)
  • M, number of eigentransformation basis vectors = 10
    Set by the ablation in Figure 9 on a 9-dataset subset of 500 train and 50 test images; PSNR saturates around M=10. The choice affects the capacity of every predicted transformation function.
  • eigentransformation basis U_10 (256 by 10 matrix) = top-10 left singular vectors of the oracle TF matrix (Eq. 8)
    The basis is fit to the training set's QP-optimal transformations, so the 10 coefficients predicted by Y-Net are expressed in data-fitted coordinates rather than a fixed analytic family.
  • lambda, loss weight on coefficient regression = 0.1
    Chosen by hand in Eq. 12; no ablation or sensitivity analysis is reported.
  • LLIE preprocessing parameters (BT.709 gamma and bilateral filter settings) = not reported
    The bilateral filter parameters (sigma space and range) are unspecified, yet this preprocessing is load-bearing for low-light inputs because the model cannot remove noise itself (Section 4.1).
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption A single global intensity transformation function and a single 3x3 color correction matrix, applied identically to every pixel, can represent the input-to-output mapping of each of the 30 datasets.
    Entered in Section 3.1 (two-step point operators, Eqs. 1 to 3). The paper attempts to justify the model class with the QP oracle ceiling in Section 4.3, but the same ceiling is below existing algorithms for SOTS-in (22.35 vs 42.56), SOTS-out (29.92 vs 36.68), SID (20.40 vs 24.44), and ISP 20D, D7000, and D90, so the assumption fails for those tasks by the paper's own numbers.
  • domain assumption Noise in low-light inputs can be removed by preprocessing (BT.709 gamma plus bilateral filtering) without changing the task being compared.
    Section 4.1: LLIE images are preprocessed to reduce noise, which is not removable by point operators, and ISP images are gamma-corrected. This moves Oneta's input distribution toward the point-operator model and may differ from what baselines such as SNR-Net or Retinexformer received.
  • domain assumption The top-10 eigentransformation basis, computed once from the oracle transformations of the training set, is a sufficient coordinate system for all 30 styles.
    Section 3.3 (Eqs. 8 to 11): a single basis serves all styles. The M ablation (Figure 9) covers only 9 of the 30 datasets, so the adequacy of the basis for the other 21 styles is untested.
  • standard math Best rank-M approximation via SVD and convexity of the quadratic programs (Eqs. 5 and 6).
    Invoked with citations [6] (rank-M approximation) and [7] (Boyd and Vandenberghe) in Sections 3.2 and 3.3; these are standard results applied correctly as far as can be checked from the text.
  • ad hoc to paper The inference-only monotonicity enforcement (setting xk = xk-1 when xk < xk-1) preserves the learned enhancement behavior.
    Supplement D.4: applied only at inference, creating a train/test mismatch; Table 4 shows small PSNR effects (up to +0.58 dB), but the rule is hand-designed and not derived from the QP optimum of Eq. 5.
invented entities (1)
  • Style tokens (30 learnable vectors, one per dataset or expert)
    purpose: Condition the two ViT encoders so a single network emits the enhancement style of the selected dataset; token interpolation provides intermediate styles.
    All evidence for token behavior is internal to the paper: t-SNE of the tokens (Figures 10 to 12) and Oneta's own outputs (Figures 5 to 7). The closest external handle, transferring the LSUI token to UIEB, yields 19.87 dB versus 22.15 dB with the UIEB token, so token specificity is not independently confirmed. The vectors are learned parameters, not externally verified entities.

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abstract

The first algorithm, called Oneta, for a novel task of multi-style image enhancement is proposed in this work. Oneta uses two point operators sequentially: intensity enhancement with a transformation function (TF) and color correction with a color correction matrix (CCM). This two-step enhancement model, though simple, achieves a high performance upper bound. Also, we introduce eigentransformation function (eigenTF) to represent TF compactly. The Oneta network comprises Y-Net and C-Net to predict eigenTF and CCM parameters, respectively. To support $K$ styles, Oneta employs $K$ learnable tokens. During training, each style token is learned using image pairs from the corresponding dataset. In testing, Oneta selects one of the $K$ style tokens to enhance an image accordingly. Extensive experiments show that the single Oneta network can effectively undertake six enhancement tasks -- retouching, image signal processing, low-light image enhancement, dehazing, underwater image enhancement, and white balancing -- across 30 datasets.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Given an input image Iin and a style token, the proposed Oneta algorithm generates an output image Iout in the desired style. Oneta can retouch an identical image in different styles and perform a variety of tasks, including LLIE and WB, simply by changing the style token. respectively. All these algorithms were designed to undertake each specific task only. Meanwhile, at￾tempts have been made to perform multiple im… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Oneta can cope with retouching, ISP, LLIE, de [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Overview of the proposed Oneta algorithm: In Oneta, a user selects one of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Illustration of the eigenTF representation. As [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Oneta enhancement results for the retouching task: the left five images are for experts A, B, C, D, and E in MIT [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Oneta enhancement results for the LLIE, dehazing, UIE, ISP, and WB tasks. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: (d) illustrates that a user can perform the enhancement by employing multiple style tokens in series. These use cases show that users can utilize the single Oneta network to enhance images in vari￾ous manners according to their preferences. The supplemental document pr…
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Ablation study on the number M of eigenTFs. (b) Retouching ISP LLIE Dehazing UIE WB (a) Epoch 0 Epoch 15 Epoch 40 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: t-SNE visualization: (a) clustering of style tokens [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: visualizes how style tokens si , s ′ i , and s ′′ i are aligned through training. Also, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: t-SNE visualization of style tokens si, s ′ i , and s ′′ i for each task [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Retouching examples on the FiveK dataset. For each image, the retouching results of expert styles A, B, C, D, E, a, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_13.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Retouching examples on the PPR10K dataset. For each image, the retouching results of expert styles A, B, C, D, E, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_14.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: ISP results on the FiveK-Canon EOS 20D dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_15.png]
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Figure 16. Figure 16: ISP results on the FiveK-Canon EOS 40D dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_16.png]
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Figure 17. Figure 17: ISP results on the FiveK-Canon EOS 5D dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_17.png]
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Figure 18. Figure 18: ISP results on the FiveK-Canon EOS XSi dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_18.png]
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Figure 19. Figure 19: ISP results on the FiveK-Nikon D700 dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_19.png]
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Figure 20. Figure 20: ISP results on the FiveK-Nikon D70s dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_20.png]
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Figure 21. Figure 21: ISP results on the RAISE-Nikon D7000 dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_21.png]
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Figure 22. Figure 22: ISP results on the Samsung Galaxy D90 dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_22.png]
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Figure 23. Figure 23: ISP results on the RAISE-Nikon S7 dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_23.png]
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Figure 24. Figure 24: LLIE results on the LOL-v2-real dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_24.png]
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Figure 25. Figure 25: LLIE results on the LOL-v2-syn dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_25.png]
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Figure 26. Figure 26: LLIE results on the LOL-v1 dataset. Input Output Ground-truth Input Output Ground-truth [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_26.png]
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Figure 27. Figure 27: LLIE results on the SID dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_27.png]
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Figure 28. Figure 28: LLIE results on the SMID dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_28.png]
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Figure 29. Figure 29: LLIE results on the SDSD-indoor dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_29.png]
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Figure 30. Figure 30: LLIE results on the SDSD-outdoor dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_30.png]
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Figure 31. Figure 31: Dehzing results on the SOTS-in dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_31.png]
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Figure 32. Figure 32: Dehazing results on the SOTS-out dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_32.png]
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Figure 33. Figure 33: UIE results on the LSUI dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_33.png]
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Figure 34. Figure 34: Underwater image enhancement results on the UIEB dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_34.png]
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Figure 35. Figure 35: WB results on the WB dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_35.png]
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Figure 36. Figure 36: WB results on the Cube+ dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_36.png]

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