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Traditional image quality assessment metrics like Mean Squared Error and Structural Similarity Index often fail to reflect perceptual quality under complex distortions. We propose the Hybrid Image Resolution Quality Metric (HIRQM),…

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Novel view synthesis from low dynamic range (LDR) blurry images, which are common in the wild, struggles to recover high dynamic range (HDR) and sharp 3D representations in extreme lighting conditions. Although existing methods employ event…

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This paper proposes a novel learning based high-dynamic-range (HDR) reconstruction method using a polarization camera. We utilize a previous observation that polarization filters with different orientations can attenuate natural light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Juiwen Ting , Moein Shakeri , Hong Zhang

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

High dynamic range (HDR) novel view synthesis (NVS) aims to reconstruct HDR scenes from multi-exposure low dynamic range (LDR) images. Existing HDR pipelines heavily rely on known camera poses, well-initialized dense point clouds, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Dingqiang Ye , Jiacong Xu , Jianglu Ping , Yuxiang Guo , Chao Fan , Vishal M. Patel

Super-resolution results are usually measured by full-reference image quality metrics or human rating scores. However, these evaluation methods are general image quality measurement, and do not account for the nature of the super-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sheng Cheng

Reconstructing high dynamic range (HDR) images from low dynamic range (LDR) bursts plays an essential role in the computational photography. Impressive progress has been achieved by learning-based algorithms which require LDR-HDR image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Wei Jiang , Jiahao Cui , Yizheng Wu , Zhan Peng , Zhiyu Pan , Zhiguo Cao

Reconstruction of high-quality HDR images is at the core of modern computational photography. Significant progress has been made with multi-frame HDR reconstruction methods, producing high-resolution, rich and accurate color reconstructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Richard Shaw , Sibi Catley-Chandar , Ales Leonardis , Eduardo Perez-Pellitero

Reconstructing High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos from sequences of alternating-exposure Low Dynamic Range (LDR) frames remains highly challenging, especially under dynamic scenes where cross-exposure inconsistencies and complex motion make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Huanjing Yue , Dawei Li , Shaoxiong Tu , Jingyu Yang

This paper considers the problem of generating an HDR image of a scene from its LDR images. Recent studies employ deep learning and solve the problem in an end-to-end fashion, leading to significant performance improvements. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Qian Ye , Jun Xiao , Kin-man Lam , Takayuki Okatani

High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging aims to generate an artifact-free HDR image with realistic details by fusing multi-exposure Low Dynamic Range (LDR) images. Caused by large motion and severe under-/over-exposure among input LDR images, HDR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Shuaikang Shang , Xuejing Kang , Anlong Ming

High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging is gaining increased attention due to its realistic content, for not only regular displays but also smartphones. Before sufficient HDR content is distributed, HDR visualization still relies mostly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Subhayan Mukherjee , Guan-Ming Su , Irene Cheng

Modern high dynamic range (HDR) imaging pipelines align and fuse multiple low dynamic range (LDR) images captured at different exposure times. While these methods work well in static scenes, dynamic scenes remain a challenge since the LDR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-29 Nico Messikommer , Stamatios Georgoulis , Daniel Gehrig , Stepan Tulyakov , Julius Erbach , Alfredo Bochicchio , Yuanyou Li , Davide Scaramuzza

We introduce HIDRO-VQA, a no-reference (NR) video quality assessment model designed to provide precise quality evaluations of High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos. HDR videos exhibit a broader spectrum of luminance, detail, and color than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Shreshth Saini , Avinab Saha , Alan C. Bovik

Snapshot HDR imaging is essential to capture the full dynamic range of a scene in a single exposure, making it essential for video and dynamic environments where motion prevents the use of multi-exposure techniques or complex hardware…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Teresa Stürzenhofäcker , Moritz Klimm , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Despite a rapid rise in the quality of built-in smartphone cameras, their physical limitations - small sensor size, compact lenses and the lack of specific hardware, - impede them to achieve the quality results of DSLR cameras. In this work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Andrey Ignatov , Nikolay Kobyshev , Radu Timofte , Kenneth Vanhoey , Luc Van Gool

Photographs captured by smartphones and mid-range cameras have limited spatial resolution and dynamic range, with noisy response in underexposed regions and color artefacts in saturated areas. This paper introduces the first approach (to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Bruno Lecouat , Thomas Eboli , Jean Ponce , Julien Mairal

Numerous image superresolution (SR) algorithms have been proposed for reconstructing high-resolution (HR) images from input images with lower spatial resolutions. However, effectively evaluating the perceptual quality of SR images remains a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-15 Wei Zhou , Qiuping Jiang , Yuwang Wang , Zhibo Chen , Weiping Li

High dynamic range (HDR) images are important for a range of tasks, from navigation to consumer photography. Accordingly, a host of specialized HDR sensors have been developed, the most successful of which are based on capturing variable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Mingyang Xie , Matthew Chan , Christopher Metzler

Photographing scenes with high dynamic range (HDR) poses great challenges to consumer cameras with their limited sensor bit depth. To address this, Zhao et al. recently proposed a novel sensor concept - the modulo camera - which captures…

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