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Vision-centric perception systems for autonomous driving have gained considerable attention recently due to their cost-effectiveness and scalability, especially compared to LiDAR-based systems. However, these systems often struggle in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jinlong Li , Baolu Li , Zhengzhong Tu , Xinyu Liu , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Runsheng Xu , Hongkai Yu

Autonomous vehicles rely heavily upon their perception subsystems to see the environment in which they operate. Unfortunately, the effect of variable weather conditions presents a significant challenge to object detection algorithms, and…

Scene simulation in autonomous driving has gained significant attention because of its huge potential for generating customized data. However, existing editable scene simulation approaches face limitations in terms of user interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Yuxi Wei , Zi Wang , Yifan Lu , Chenxin Xu , Changxing Liu , Hao Zhao , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

Collections of images under a single, uncontrolled illumination have enabled the rapid advancement of core computer vision tasks like classification, detection, and segmentation. But even with modern learning techniques, many inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Lukas Murmann , Michael Gharbi , Miika Aittala , Fredo Durand

Recovering the geometry and materials of objects from a single image is challenging due to its under-constrained nature. In this paper, we present Neural LightRig, a novel framework that boosts intrinsic estimation by leveraging auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zexin He , Tengfei Wang , Xin Huang , Xingang Pan , Ziwei Liu

Detecting a diverse range of objects under various driving scenarios is essential for the effectiveness of autonomous driving systems. However, the real-world data collected often lacks the necessary diversity presenting a long-tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Aqeel Anwar , Tae Eun Choe , Zian Wang , Sanja Fidler , Minwoo Park

Deep image relighting is gaining more interest lately, as it allows photo enhancement through illumination-specific retouching without human effort. Aside from aesthetic enhancement and photo montage, image relighting is valuable for domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Majed El Helou , Ruofan Zhou , Johan Barthas , Sabine Süsstrunk

Participating media are a pervasive and intriguing visual effect in virtual environments. Unfortunately, rendering such phenomena in real-time is notoriously difficult due to the computational expense of estimating the volume rendering…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Wei Li , Hanxiao Sun , Tao Huang , Haoxiang Wang , Tongtong Wang , Zherong Pan , Kui Wu

Enhancing low-light traffic images is crucial for reliable perception in autonomous driving, intelligent transportation, and urban surveillance systems. Nighttime and dimly lit traffic scenes often suffer from poor visibility due to low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Siddiqua Namrah

Traffic light detection is essential for self-driving cars to navigate safely in urban areas. Publicly available traffic light datasets are inadequate for the development of algorithms for detecting distant traffic lights that provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Harindu Jayarathne , Tharindu Samarakoon , Hasara Koralege , Asitha Divisekara , Ranga Rodrigo , Peshala Jayasekara

Semantic segmentation is an important task for autonomous driving. A powerful autonomous driving system should be capable of handling images under all conditions, including nighttime. Generating accurate and diverse nighttime semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Shutong Zhang

Existing methods for enhancing dark images captured in a very low-light environment assume that the intensity level of the optimal output image is known and already included in the training set. However, this assumption often does not hold,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Evgeny Hershkovitch Neiterman , Michael Klyuchka , Gil Ben-Artzi

We present the first neural relighting approach for rendering high-fidelity personalized hands that can be animated in real-time under novel illumination. Our approach adopts a teacher-student framework, where the teacher learns appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Shun Iwase , Shunsuke Saito , Tomas Simon , Stephen Lombardi , Timur Bagautdinov , Rohan Joshi , Fabian Prada , Takaaki Shiratori , Yaser Sheikh , Jason Saragih

Reconstructing an object from photos and placing it virtually in a new environment goes beyond the standard novel view synthesis task as the appearance of the object has to not only adapt to the novel viewpoint but also to the new lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Benjamin Ummenhofer , Sanskar Agrawal , Rene Sepulveda , Yixing Lao , Kai Zhang , Tianhang Cheng , Stephan Richter , Shenlong Wang , German Ros

Outdoor scene relighting is a challenging problem that requires good understanding of the scene geometry, illumination and albedo. Current techniques are completely supervised, requiring high quality synthetic renderings to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Ye Yu , Abhimitra Meka , Mohamed Elgharib , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt , William A. P. Smith

Simulation has the potential to massively scale evaluation of self-driving systems enabling rapid development as well as safe deployment. To close the gap between simulation and the real world, we need to simulate realistic multi-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Simon Suo , Sebastian Regalado , Sergio Casas , Raquel Urtasun

This paper presents a method for image relighting that enables precise and continuous control over multiple illumination attributes in a photograph. We formulate relighting as a conditional image generation task and introduce attribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sumit Chaturvedi , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Mengwei Ren , Jingyuan Liu , He Zhang , Yiqun Mei , Julie Dorsey , Zhixin Shu

The use of computer generated images to train Deep Neural Networks is a viable alternative to real images when the latter are scarce or expensive. In this paper, we study how the illumination model used by the rendering software affects the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Xin Zhang , Ning Jia , Ioannis Ivrissimtzis

Generative models trained on internet data have revolutionized how text, image, and video content can be created. Perhaps the next milestone for generative models is to simulate realistic experience in response to actions taken by humans,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Sherry Yang , Yilun Du , Kamyar Ghasemipour , Jonathan Tompson , Leslie Kaelbling , Dale Schuurmans , Pieter Abbeel

Lighting understanding plays an important role in virtual object composition, including mobile augmented reality (AR) applications. Prior work often targets recovering lighting from the physical environment to support photorealistic AR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yiqin Zhao , Sean Fanello , Tian Guo