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Accurate environment maps are a key component for rendering photorealistic outdoor scenes with coherent illumination. They enable captivating visual arts, immersive virtual reality, and a wide range of engineering and scientific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ian J. Maquignaz

We present a learning-based method to infer plausible high dynamic range (HDR), omnidirectional illumination given an unconstrained, low dynamic range (LDR) image from a mobile phone camera with a limited field of view (FOV). For training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Chloe LeGendre , Wan-Chun Ma , Graham Fyffe , John Flynn , Laurent Charbonnel , Jay Busch , Paul Debevec

We propose a physically-motivated deep learning framework to solve a general version of the challenging indoor lighting estimation problem. Given a single LDR image with a depth map, our method predicts spatially consistent lighting at any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zhengqin Li , Li Yu , Mikhail Okunev , Manmohan Chandraker , Zhao Dong

Digital imaging aims to replicate realistic scenes, but Low Dynamic Range (LDR) cameras cannot represent the wide dynamic range of real scenes, resulting in under-/overexposed images. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Dwip Dalal , Gautam Vashishtha , Prajwal Singh , Shanmuganathan Raman

We present a method to edit complex indoor lighting from a single image with its predicted depth and light source segmentation masks. This is an extremely challenging problem that requires modeling complex light transport, and disentangling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhengqin Li , Jia Shi , Sai Bi , Rui Zhu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Miloš Hašan , Zexiang Xu , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Manmohan Chandraker

HDR reconstruction is an important task in computer vision with many industrial needs. The traditional approaches merge multiple exposure shots to generate HDRs that correspond to the physical quantity of illuminance of the scene. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Wei Wei , Li Guan , Yue Liu , Hao Kang , Haoxiang Li , Ying Wu , Gang Hua

High dynamic range (HDR) image generation from a single exposure low dynamic range (LDR) image has been made possible due to the recent advances in Deep Learning. Various feed-forward Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Zeeshan Khan , Mukul Khanna , Shanmuganathan Raman

As global climate change intensifies, accurate weather forecasting has become increasingly important, affecting agriculture, energy management, environmental protection, and daily life. This study introduces a hybrid model combining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yuhao Gong , Yuchen Zhang , Fei Wang , Chi-Han Lee

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging provides the capability of handling real world lighting as opposed to the traditional low dynamic range (LDR) which struggles to accurately represent images with higher dynamic range. However, most imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Demetris Marnerides , Thomas Bashford-Rogers , Jonathan Hatchett , Kurt Debattista

In this work, we focus on outdoor lighting estimation by aggregating individual noisy estimates from images, exploiting the rich image information from wide-angle cameras and/or temporal image sequences. Photographs inherently encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Haebom Lee , Christian Homeyer , Robert Herzog , Jan Rexilius , Carsten Rother

This paper introduces a novel image-based rendering technique for jointly estimating indoor lighting and thermal conditions from paired indoor-outdoor high dynamic range (HDR) panoramas. Our method uses the indoor panorama to estimate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Guanzhou Ji , Sriram Narayanan , Azadeh Sawyer , Srinivasa Narasimhan

We present a new lighting estimation and editing framework to generate high-dynamic-range (HDR) indoor panorama lighting from a single limited field-of-view (LFOV) image captured by low-dynamic-range (LDR) cameras. Existing lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Guangcong Wang , Yinuo Yang , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

Manipulating the light source of given images is an interesting task and useful in various applications, including photography and cinematography. Existing methods usually require additional information like the geometric structure of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Li-Wen Wang , Wan-Chi Siu , Zhi-Song Liu , Chu-Tak Li , Daniel P. K. Lun

Extracting information related to weather and visual conditions at a given time and space is indispensable for scene awareness, which strongly impacts our behaviours, from simply walking in a city to riding a bike, driving a car, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Mohamed R. Ibrahim , James Haworth , Tao Cheng

We present a scheme for fast environment light estimation from the RGBD appearance of individual objects and their local image areas. Conventional inverse rendering is too computationally demanding for real-time applications, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Xin Wei , Guojun Chen , Yue Dong , Stephen Lin , Xin Tong

Mapping a single exposure low dynamic range (LDR) image into a high dynamic range (HDR) is considered among the most strenuous image to image translation tasks due to exposure-related missing information. This study tackles the challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 SMA Sharif , Rizwan Ali Naqvi , Mithun Biswas , Kim Sungjun

Annual luminance maps provide meaningful evaluations for occupants' visual comfort, preferences, and perception. However, acquiring long-term luminance maps require labor-intensive and time-consuming simulations or impracticable long-term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yue Liu , Alex Colburn , Mehlika Inanici

We present a method to estimate an HDR environment map from a narrow field-of-view LDR camera image in real-time. This enables perceptually appealing reflections and shading on virtual objects of any material finish, from mirror to diffuse,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Gowri Somanath , Daniel Kurz

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is an indispensable technique in modern photography. Traditional methods focus on HDR reconstruction from multiple images, solving the core problems of image alignment, fusion, and tone mapping, yet having a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Phuoc-Hieu Le , Quynh Le , Rang Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua

Outdoor scene relighting is a challenging problem that requires good understanding of the scene geometry, illumination and albedo. Current techniques are completely supervised, requiring high quality synthetic renderings to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Ye Yu , Abhimitra Meka , Mohamed Elgharib , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt , William A. P. Smith