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Flare spot is one type of flare artifact caused by a number of conditions, frequently provoked by one or more high-luminance sources within or close to the camera field of view. When light rays coming from a high-luminance source reach the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Patricia Vitoria , Coloma Ballester

Lens flare is a degradation phenomenon caused by strong light sources. Existing researches on flare removal have mainly focused on images, while the spatiotemporal characteristics of video flare remain largely unexplored. Video flare…

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Lens flare significantly degrades image quality, impacting critical computer vision tasks like object detection and autonomous driving. Recent Single Image Flare Removal (SIFR) methods perform poorly when off-frame light sources are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shr-Ruei Tsai , Wei-Cheng Chang , Jie-Ying Lee , Chih-Hai Su , Yu-Lun Liu

Due to the lack of a large-scale reflection removal dataset with diverse real-world scenes, many existing reflection removal methods are trained on synthetic data plus a small amount of real-world data, which makes it difficult to evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Chenyang Lei , Xuhua Huang , Chenyang Qi , Yankun Zhao , Wenxiu Sun , Qiong Yan , Qifeng Chen

Restoring nighttime images affected by multiple adverse weather conditions is a practical yet under-explored research problem, as multiple weather conditions often coexist in the real world alongside various lighting effects at night. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yuetong Liu , Yunqiu Xu , Yang Wei , Xiuli Bi , Bin Xiao

Event cameras have the potential to revolutionize vision systems with their high temporal resolution and dynamic range, yet they remain susceptible to lens flare, a fundamental optical artifact that causes severe degradation. In event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Haiqian Han , Lingdong Kong , Jianing Li , Ao Liang , Chengtao Zhu , Jiacheng Lyu , Lai Xing Ng , Xiangyang Ji , Wei Tsang Ooi , Benoit R. Cottereau

Specular highlights are commonplace in images, however, methods for detecting them and in turn removing the phenomenon are particularly challenging. A reason for this, is due to the difficulty of creating a dataset for training or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Mohamed Dahy Elkhouly , Theodore Tsesmelis , Alessio Del Bue , Stuart James

Reflection removal is challenging due to complex light interactions, where reflections obscure important details and hinder scene understanding. Polarization naturally provides a powerful cue to distinguish between reflected and transmitted…

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Lens flare removal is challenging due to the large spatial extent of flare artifacts and their entanglement with scene structures, while existing methods heavily rely on large-scale paired data. We propose a semi-supervised flare removal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xiyu Zhu , Wei Wang , Kui Jiang , Zhengguo Li

Haze removal is important for computational photography and computer vision applications. However, most of the existing methods for dehazing are designed for daytime images, and cannot always work well in the nighttime. Different from the…

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Archives of long photometric surveys, like the Kepler database, are a gold mine for studying flares. However, identifying them is a complex task; while in the case of single-target observations it can be easily done manually by visual…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Krisztián Vida , Rachael M. Roettenbacher

Detecting diffusion-generated images has recently grown into an emerging research area. Existing diffusion-based datasets predominantly focus on general image generation. However, facial forgeries, which pose a more severe social risk, have…

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AI-generated synthetic media are increasingly used in real-world scenarios, often with the purpose of spreading misinformation and propaganda through social media platforms, where compression and other processing can degrade fake detection…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Stefano Dell'Anna , Andrea Montibeller , Giulia Boato

The recovery of high-quality images from images corrupted by lens flare presents a significant challenge in low-level vision. Contemporary deep learning methods frequently entail training a lens flare removing model from scratch. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Tianwen Zhou , Qihao Duan , Zitong Yu

Accurately modeling how real-world materials reflect light remains a core challenge in inverse rendering, largely due to the scarcity of real measured reflectance data. Existing approaches rely heavily on synthetic datasets with simplified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jing Yang , Krithika Dharanikota , Emily Jia , Haiwei Chen , Yajie Zhao

Although huge progress has been made on scene analysis in recent years, most existing works assume the input images to be in day-time with good lighting conditions. In this work, we aim to address the night-time scene parsing (NTSP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Xin Tan , Ke Xu , Ying Cao , Yiheng Zhang , Lizhuang Ma , Rynson W. H. Lau

Nighttime photographers are often troubled by light pollution of unwanted artificial lights. Artificial lights, after scattered by aerosols in the atmosphere, can inundate the starlight and degrade the quality of nighttime images, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Chang Liu , Xiaolin Wu

While nighttime image dehazing has been extensively studied, converting nighttime hazy images to daytime-equivalent brightness remains largely unaddressed. Existing methods face two critical limitations: (1) datasets overlook the brightness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xiaofeng Cong , Yu-Xin Zhang , Haoran Wei , Yeying Jin , Junming Hou , Jie Gui , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

In current object detection, algorithms require the object to be directly visible in order to be detected. As humans, however, we intuitively use visual cues caused by the respective object to already make assumptions about its appearance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Sascha Saralajew , Lars Ohnemus , Lukas Ewecker , Ebubekir Asan , Simon Isele , Stefan Roos

One of the key challenges of detecting AI-generated images is spotting images that have been created by previously unseen generative models. We argue that the limited diversity of the training data is a major obstacle to addressing this…

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