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Stereo camera systems play an important role in robotics applications to perceive the 3D world. However, conventional cameras have drawbacks such as low dynamic range, motion blur and latency due to the underlying frame-based mechanism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Ziwei Wang , Liyuan Pan , Yonhon Ng , Zheyu Zhuang , Robert Mahony

Ghosting artifacts, motion blur, and low fidelity in highlight are the main challenges in High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging from multiple Low Dynamic Range (LDR) images. These issues come from using the medium-exposed image as the reference…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Wei Li , Shuai Xiao , Tianhong Dai , Shanxin Yuan , Tao Wang , Cheng Li , Fenglong Song

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

In this paper, we propose a novel method for image fusion with a high-resolution panchromatic image and a low-resolution multispectral image at the same geographical location. The fusion is formulated as a convex optimization problem which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Chen Chen , Yeqing Li , Wei Liu , Junzhou Huang

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging aims to obtain a high-quality HDR image by fusing information from multiple low dynamic range (LDR) images. Numerous learning-based HDR imaging methods have been proposed to achieve this for static and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Yu Yuan , Yiheng Chi , Xingguang Zhang , Stanley Chan

There are shadow and highlight regions in a low dynamic range (LDR) image which is captured from a high dynamic range (HDR) scene. It is an ill-posed problem to restore the saturated regions of the LDR image. In this paper, the saturated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Chaobing Zheng , Zhengguo Li , Shiqian Wu

It is essential to have a method to map an unknown terrain for various applications. For places where human access is not possible, a method should be proposed to identify the environment. Exploration, disaster relief, transportation and…

Reliable depth estimation under real optical conditions remains a core challenge for camera vision in systems such as autonomous robotics and augmented reality. Despite recent progress in depth estimation and depth-of-field rendering,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nisarg K. Trivedi , Vinayak A. Belludi , Li-Yun Wang

High dynamic range (HDR) video reconstruction is attracting more and more attention due to the superior visual quality compared with those of low dynamic range (LDR) videos. The availability of LDR-HDR training pairs is essential for the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Huanjing Yue , Yubo Peng , Biting Yu , Xuanwu Yin , Zhenyu Zhou , Jingyu Yang

With the popularity of stereo cameras in computer assisted surgery techniques, a second viewpoint would provide additional information in surgery. However, how to effectively access and use stereo information for the super-resolution (SR)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-20 Tianyi Zhang , Yun Gu , Xiaolin Huang , Enmei Tu , Jie Yang

Most novel view synthesis methods -- including Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) -- struggle to capture the high dynamic range (HDR) radiance required for realistic image-based lighting (IBL). This limitation stems from a reliance on low…

Computational stereo has reached a high level of accuracy, but degrades in the presence of occlusions, repeated textures, and correspondence errors along edges. We present a novel approach based on neural networks for depth estimation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yinda Zhang , Neal Wadhwa , Sergio Orts-Escolano , Christian Häne , Sean Fanello , Rahul Garg

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

We present a metasurface camera that jointly performs high-dynamic range (HDR) and hyperspectral imaging in a snapshot. The system integrates exposure bracketing and computed tomography imaging spectrometry (CTIS) by simultaneously forming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Yuxuan Liu , Qi Guo

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 technique aims to create realistic HDR images from low dynamic range (LDR) inputs. Specifically, Multi-exposure HDR imaging uses multiple LDR frames taken from the same scene to improve reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Keuntek Lee , Jaehyun Park , Nam Ik Cho

Radiance of real-world scenes typically spans a much wider dynamic range than what standard cameras can capture. While conventional HDR methods merge alternating-exposure frames, these approaches are inherently constrained to 2D pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Shin Dong-Yeon , Kim Jun-Seong , Kwon Byung-Ki , Tae-Hyun Oh

This paper addresses the problem of range-stereo fusion, for the construction of high-resolution depth maps. In particular, we combine low-resolution depth data with high-resolution stereo data, in a maximum a posteriori (MAP) formulation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Georgios D. Evangelidis , Miles Hansard , Radu Horaud

Merging multi-exposure image stacks into a high dynamic range (HDR) image requires knowledge of accurate exposure times. When exposure times are inaccurate, for example, when they are extracted from a camera's EXIF metadata, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Param Hanji , Rafał K. Mantiuk

Camera sensors can only capture a limited range of luminance simultaneously, and in order to create high dynamic range (HDR) images a set of different exposures are typically combined. In this paper we address the problem of predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Gabriel Eilertsen , Joel Kronander , Gyorgy Denes , Rafał K. Mantiuk , Jonas Unger