LowPowAR: Power-Constrained Tone Mapping for Augmented Reality
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Published on: June 27, 2025
Abstract:
Everyday-wearable Augmented Reality (AR) glasses must meet strict power limits, making displays a key target for optimization. We cast display power optimization as a power-constrained tone-mapping problem and propose a human-vision-grounded, learning-based framework that maximizes perceptual quality under a given power budget. We introduce an optimization-friendly tonemapping operator (TMO) parameterization along with a progressive optimization strategy to effectively navigate the quality-vs-power landscape. We distill the iterative optimization into a lightweight feed-forward neural network for real-time deployment. Subjective experiments show that our method yields better perceptual quality than prior work at the same power budget.
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