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Most digital videos are stored in 8-bit low dynamic range (LDR) formats, where much of the original high dynamic range (HDR) scene radiance is lost due to saturation and quantization. This loss of highlight and shadow detail precludes…

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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,…

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High Dynamic Range (HDR) content (i.e., images and videos) has a broad range of applications. However, capturing HDR content from real-world scenes is expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, the challenging task of reconstructing visually…

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Increasing popularity of high-dynamic-range (HDR) image and video content brings the need for metrics that could predict the severity of image impairments as seen on displays of different brightness levels and dynamic range. Such metrics…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Aliaksei Mikhailiuk , Maria Perez-Ortiz , Dingcheng Yue , Wilson Suen , Rafal K. Mantiuk

As an important and practical way to obtain high dynamic range (HDR) video, HDR video reconstruction from sequences with alternating exposures is still less explored, mainly due to the lack of large-scale real-world datasets. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yong Shu , Liquan Shen , Xiangyu Hu , Mengyao Li , Zihao Zhou

As demands for high-quality videos continue to rise, high-resolution and high-dynamic range (HDR) imaging techniques are drawing attention. To generate an HDR video from low dynamic range (LDR) images, one of the critical steps is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Haesoo Chung , Nam Ik Cho

We conducted a large-scale study of human perceptual quality judgments of High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) videos subjected to scaling and compression levels and viewed on three different display devices. HDR videos…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Joshua P. Ebenezer , Zaixi Shang , Yixu Chen , Yongjun Wu , Hai Wei , Sriram Sethuraman , Alan C. Bovik

Digital cameras can only capture a limited range of real-world scenes' luminance, producing images with saturated pixels. Existing single image high dynamic range (HDR) reconstruction methods attempt to expand the range of luminance, but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-18 Marcel Santana Santos , Tsang Ing Ren , Nima Khademi Kalantari

We present a no-reference video quality model and algorithm that delivers standout performance for High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos, which we call HDR-ChipQA. HDR videos represent wider ranges of luminances, details, and colors than Standard…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Joshua P. Ebenezer , Zaixi Shang , Yongjun Wu , Hai Wei , Sriram Sethuraman , Alan C. Bovik

High-Dynamic-Range Visual-Difference-Predictor version 3, or HDR-VDP-3, is a visual metric that can fulfill several tasks, such as full-reference image/video quality assessment, prediction of visual differences between a pair of images, or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Rafal K. Mantiuk , Dounia Hammou , Param Hanji

Recently, Deep Learning-based methods for inverse tone-mapping standard dynamic range (SDR) images to obtain high dynamic range (HDR) images have become very popular. These methods manage to fill over-exposed areas convincingly both in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Francesco Banterle , Demetris Marnerides , Kurt Debattista , Thomas Bashford-Rogers

Inverse Tone Mapping (ITM) methods attempt to reconstruct High Dynamic Range (HDR) information from Low Dynamic Range (LDR) image content. The dynamic range of well-exposed areas must be expanded and any missing information due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Demetris Marnerides , Thomas Bashford-Rogers , Kurt Debattista

Recovering the shape and appearance of real-world objects from natural 2D images is a long-standing and challenging inverse rendering problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel hybrid differentiable rendering method to efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiangyang Zhu , Yiling Pan , Bailin Deng , Bin Wang

The prime goal of digital imaging techniques is to reproduce the realistic appearance of a scene. Low Dynamic Range (LDR) cameras are incapable of representing the wide dynamic range of the real-world scene. The captured images turn out to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Prarabdh Raipurkar , Rohil Pal , Shanmuganathan Raman

High Dynamic Range (HDR) generation remains challenging for generative models, which are largely limited to low dynamic range outputs. Recent diffusionbased approaches approximate HDR by generating multiple exposure-conditioned samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Pedram Fekri , WenChen Li , William Chen , Peter Altamirano

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging under extreme illumination remains challenging for conventional cameras due to overexposure. Event cameras provide microsecond temporal resolution and high dynamic range, while spatially varying exposure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Pengju Sun , Banglei Guan , Jing Tao , Zhenbao Yu , Xuanyu Bai , Yang Shang , Qifeng Yu

High dynamic range (HDR) photography is becoming increasingly popular and available by DSLR and mobile-phone cameras. While deep neural networks (DNN) have greatly impacted other domains of image manipulation, their use for HDR tone-mapping…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Yael Vinker , Inbar Huberman-Spiegelglas , Raanan Fattal

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

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

Thanks to High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging methods, the scope of photography has seen profound changes recently. To be more specific, such methods try to reconstruct the lost luminosity of the real world caused by the limitation of regular…

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