How do I remove extra luminescence in a image which cause feature lost in a image?

Question

I am having a person's face image which has extra luminescence while capturing the photo. I want reduce or remove the luminescence of the image so that face is clearly visible.

Example of the Image is :

I am using python and OpenCV to do it.I have converted it to gray scale and perform histogram equalization but it didn't give desired output.

Try sharpening: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4993082/how-can-i-sharpen-an-image-in-opencv — iGian, Jul 12 '20 at 13:08
Thanks for the suggestion.But it does not work on given examples as light effect is not changing. — Ashwin Singh, Jul 12 '20 at 15:43

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '20 at 07:47

The images you want to correct are lost color information, overexposed regions become white. And you cant restore their color with traditional cv methods. The only way I see is to train GAN network for this task. But no guaranty that result will be perfect.

How do I remove extra luminescence in a image which cause feature lost in a image?

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