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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

The lack of labeled datasets in 3D vision for surgical scenes inhibits the development of robust 3D reconstruction algorithms in the medical domain. Despite the popularity of Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting in the general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 John J. Han , Jie Ying Wu

Outdoor lighting has extremely high dynamic range. This makes the process of capturing outdoor environment maps notoriously challenging since special equipment must be used. In this work, we propose an alternative approach. We first capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Jinsong Zhang , Jean-François Lalonde

We propose a method for estimating high-definition spatially-varying lighting, reflectance, and geometry of a scene from 360$^{\circ}$ stereo images. Our model takes advantage of the 360$^{\circ}$ input to observe the entire scene with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Junxuan Li , Hongdong Li , Yasuyuki Matsushita

Advances in high dynamic range (HDR) lighting estimation from a single image have opened new possibilities for augmented reality (AR) applications. Predicting complex lighting environments from a single input image allows for the realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zitian Zhang , Joshua Urban Davis , Jeanne Phuong Anh Vu , Jiangtao Kuang , Jean-François Lalonde

Real-time rendering with global illumination is crucial to afford the user realistic experience in virtual environments. We present a learning-based estimator to predict diffuse indirect illumination in screen space, which then is combined…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Meng Gai , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Recent High Dynamic Range (HDR) techniques extend the capabilities of current cameras where scenes with a wide range of illumination can not be accurately captured with a single low-dynamic-range (LDR) image. This is generally accomplished…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Michal Nazarczuk , Sibi Catley-Chandar , Ales Leonardis , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

We present a novel algorithm for light source estimation in scenes reconstructed with a RGB-D camera based on an analytically-derived formulation of path-tracing. Our algorithm traces the reconstructed scene with a custom path-tracer and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Mike Kasper , Nima Keivan , Gabe Sibley , Christoffer Heckman

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

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

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

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 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

Estimating the heightmaps of buildings and vegetation in single remotely sensed images is a challenging problem. Effective solutions to this problem can comprise the stepping stone for solving complex and demanding problems that require 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Savvas Karatsiolis , Andreas Kamilaris

Deep learning based rendering has achieved major improvements in photo-realistic image synthesis, with potential applications including visual effects in movies and photo-realistic scene building in video games. However, a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhuo He , Paul Henderson , Nicolas Pugeault

Illumination estimation is often used in mixed reality to re-render a scene from another point of view, to change the color/texture of an object, or to insert a virtual object consistently lit into a real video or photograph. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Grégoire Nieto , Salma Jiddi , Philippe Robert

Depth estimation, as a necessary clue to convert 2D images into the 3D space, has been applied in many machine vision areas. However, to achieve an entire surrounding 360-degree geometric sensing, traditional stereo matching algorithms for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Keyang Zhou , Kailun Yang , Kaiwei Wang

Mixed Reality scene relighting, where virtual changes to lighting conditions realistically interact with physical objects, producing authentic illumination and shadows, can be used in a variety of applications. One such application in real…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Hanwen Zhao , John Akers , Baback Elmieh , Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman

We propose an efficient lighting estimation pipeline that is suitable to run on modern mobile devices, with comparable resource complexities to state-of-the-art mobile deep learning models. Our pipeline, PointAR, takes a single RGB-D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yiqin Zhao , Tian Guo

We present a method for estimating lighting from a single perspective image of an indoor scene. Previous methods for predicting indoor illumination usually focus on either simple, parametric lighting that lack realism, or on richer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Henrique Weber , Mathieu Garon , Jean-François Lalonde