ZeroVision (incorporating Aurora Studio) is a desktop workstation application (WPF, .NET 8) for high-fidelity image management, color grading, and computer vision enhancement. Part of the sovereign ZeroUniverse ecosystem, it combines a non-destructive 32-bit float Linear Light develop pipeline (similar to Adobe Lightroom / Darktable) with autonomous DirectML ONNX AI engines for super-resolution upscaling, face restoration, and intelligent auto-tagging.
All adjustments operate in linear light float RGBA color space through an intelligent DAG pipeline, preventing color banding and preserving maximum highlight/shadow dynamic range.
- Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks
- Tone Curve & Parametric Curve with interactive drag-point editing and presets (Linear, Medium, Strong, Faded)
- Filmic, Filmic RGB, Sigmoid, Tone Equalizer, Dehaze
- Levels (per-channel histogram stretching, Auto Levels, Auto Color for color cast removal)
- Interactive Histogram with direct tone adjustment by dragging
- White Balance (Kelvin temperature slider, Auto WB, eyedropper tool, standard illuminant presets)
- HSL 8-Channel Mixer + Targeted Adjustment Tool (TAT) (click-drag directly on image canvas for rapid HSL tuning)
- Color Balance RGB 4-Way and Color Grading wheels
- Split Toning, Channel Mixer, Selective Color, Color Unify, Velvia, Color Contrast (Lab)
- 3D LUT (.cube) support and ICC input color profiles (sRGB, AdobeRGB, Rec2020, Display P3)
- Black & White: Deep channel mixing with classic color filters and toning simulation
- Film Negative (negadoctor): High-precision negative film scan inversion and color reconstruction
- Sharpen (radius control + intelligent edge Masking)
- Noise Reduction (Luminance, Color, Chroma)
- Diffuse-or-sharpen (PDE) filter, Hot Pixel removal, CA Correct, Defringe
- Texture, Clarity, Grain (monochrome and chromatic film grain synthesis)
- Crop with free or standard aspect ratios (1:1, 16:9, 4:3, golden ratio) and composition guide overlays
- Straighten, Rotate, Flip with EXIF-based auto-rotation
- Perspective / Upright correction, Liquify/Warp with intuitive handle-based editing
- Lens Correction: Automatic distortion and vignetting correction via lensfun database (EXIF-based) or manual adjustment
- Linear Gradient Mask, Radial Mask, Brush Mask
- Luminance Mask and Color Range Mask for targeted tonal edits
- Mask inversion, feathering, opacity, and multi-mask stacking
ZeroVision decouples heavy AI inference into isolated background host processes (ImageTool.Host) via DirectML / ONNX Runtime:
| AI Plugin | Model Architecture | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Upscaler | Real-ESRGAN / AuraSR | 2x / 4x super-resolution upscaling with DirectML acceleration |
| Face Restorer | GFPGAN / CodeFormer | High-fidelity portrait reconstruction and eye/facial feature enhancement |
| Vision Tagger | MobileNet / ResNet ONNX | Semantic multi-label scene and object classification |
ZeroVision/
├── ImageTool.Core/ # Domain models, preset system, pipeline abstractions
├── ImageTool.Imaging/ # 32-bit float linear light image processing kernels
├── ImageTool.Host/ # Out-of-process DirectML ONNX AI runner
├── ImageTool.Shared/ # IPC contracts, cross-process shared memory buffers
├── ImageTool.Plugins.*/ # Autonomous plugin modules (Upscaler, FaceRestorer, VisionTagger)
├── TestDML/ # DirectML hardware acceleration diagnostic harness
└── ImageTool.Tests/ # ~800 automated unit and integration tests
- Windows 10 (build 1809+) or Windows 11 (64-bit)
- .NET 8 SDK
- DirectX 12 capable GPU (for DirectML AI acceleration)
# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/kzxl/ZeroVision.git
cd ZeroVision
# Build solution
dotnet build ImageTool.slnx -c Release
# Run automated test suite
dotnet test ImageTool.Tests/ImageTool.Tests.csprojTo generate optimized Lite and Full deployment packages:
pwsh ./publish.ps1Licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Part of the sovereign ZeroUniverse industrial computing ecosystem.