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A major challenge for high dynamic range (HDR) image reconstruction from multi-exposed low dynamic range (LDR) images, especially with dynamic scenes, is the extraction and merging of relevant contextual features in order to suppress any…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-09 Lingkai Zhu , Fei Zhou , Bozhi Liu , Orcun Göksel

This paper describes a physics-based end-to-end software simulation for image systems. We use the software to explore sensors designed to enhance performance in high dynamic range (HDR) environments, such as driving through daytime tunnels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Zhenyi Liu , Devesh Shah , Brian Wandell

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is vital for capturing the full range of light tones in scenes, essential for computer vision tasks such as autonomous driving. Standard commercial imaging systems face limitations in capacity for well…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Brayan Monroy , Kebin Contreras , Jorge Bacca

The ability to image high-dynamic-range (HDR) scenes is crucial in many computer vision applications. The dynamic range of conventional sensors, however, is fundamentally limited by their well capacity, resulting in saturation of bright…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-22 Haley M. So , Julien N. P. Martel , Piotr Dudek , Gordon Wetzstein

Photo-realistic novel view synthesis from multi-view images, such as neural radiance field (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), has gained significant attention for its superior performance. However, most existing methods rely on low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shucheng Gong , Lingzhe Zhao , Wenpu Li , Hong Xie , Yin Zhang , Shiyu Zhao , Peidong Liu

Accurate environment maps are a key component to modelling real-world outdoor scenes. They enable captivating visual arts, immersive virtual reality and a wide range of scientific and engineering applications. To alleviate the burden of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ian J. Maquignaz

Existing methods for enhancing dark images captured in a very low-light environment assume that the intensity level of the optimal output image is known and already included in the training set. However, this assumption often does not hold,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Evgeny Hershkovitch Neiterman , Michael Klyuchka , Gil Ben-Artzi

Conventional methods for outdoor environment reconstruction rely predominantly on vision-based techniques like photogrammetry and LiDAR, facing limitations such as constrained coverage, susceptibility to environmental conditions, and high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-13 Hrant Khachatrian , Rafayel Mkrtchyan , Theofanis P. Raptis

Tone mapping is a commonly used technique that maps the set of colors in high-dynamic-range (HDR) images to another set of colors in low-dynamic-range (LDR) images, to fit the need for print-outs, LCD monitors and projectors. Unfortunately,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Zhuming Zhang , Xinghong Hu , Xueting Liu , Tien-Tsin Wong

We propose high dynamic range (HDR) radiance fields, HDR-Plenoxels, that learn a plenoptic function of 3D HDR radiance fields, geometry information, and varying camera settings inherent in 2D low dynamic range (LDR) images. Our voxel-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Kim Jun-Seong , Kim Yu-Ji , Moon Ye-Bin , Tae-Hyun Oh

Most consumer-grade digital cameras can only capture a limited range of luminance in real-world scenes due to sensor constraints. Besides, noise and quantization errors are often introduced in the imaging process. In order to obtain high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Xiangyu Chen , Yihao Liu , Zhengwen Zhang , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

We describe a new method for comparing frame appearance in a frame-to-model 3-D mapping and tracking system using an low dynamic range (LDR) RGB-D camera which is robust to brightness changes caused by auto exposure. It is based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Shuda Li , Ankur Handa , Yang Zhang , Andrew Calway

Transferring a low-dynamic-range (LDR) image to a high-dynamic-range (HDR) image, which is the so-called inverse tone mapping (iTM), is an important imaging technique to improve visual effects of imaging devices. In this paper, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-23 Shiyu Ning , Hongteng Xu , Li Song , Rong Xie , Wenjun Zhang

Single-image HDR reconstruction or inverse tone mapping (iTM) is a challenging task. In particular, recovering information in over-exposed regions is extremely difficult because details in such regions are almost completely lost. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-19 Kanglin Liu , Gaofeng Cao , Jiang Duan , Guoping Qiu

Deep learning based methods have achieved remarkable success in image restoration and enhancement, but most such methods rely on RGB input images. These methods fail to take into account the rich spectral distribution of natural images. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Harsh Sinha , Aditya Mehta , Murari Mandal , Pratik Narang

An accurate depth map of the environment is critical to the safe operation of autonomous robots and vehicles. Currently, either light detection and ranging (LIDAR) or stereo matching algorithms are used to acquire such depth information.…

Image correction aims to adjust an input image into a visually pleasing one. Existing approaches are proposed mainly from the perspective of image pixel manipulation. They are not effective to recover the details in the under/over exposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Xin Yang , Ke Xu , Yibing Song , Qiang Zhang , Xiaopeng Wei , Rynson Lau

High-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging is crucial for many computer graphics and vision applications. Yet, acquiring HDR images with a single shot remains a challenging problem. Whereas modern deep learning approaches are successful at…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Christopher A. Metzler , Hayato Ikoma , Yifan Peng , Gordon Wetzstein

Low dynamic range (LDR) cameras cannot deal with wide dynamic range inputs, frequently leading to local overexposure issues. We present a learning-based system to reduce these artifacts without resorting to complex acquisition mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yazhou Xing , Amrita Mazumdar , Anjul Patney , Chao Liu , Hongxu Yin , Qifeng Chen , Jan Kautz , Iuri Frosio

A novel approach towards depth map super-resolution using multi-view uncalibrated photometric stereo is presented. Practically, an LED light source is attached to a commodity RGB-D sensor and is used to capture objects from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Lu Sang , Bjoern Haefner , Daniel Cremers