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

Image degradation caused by complex lighting conditions such as low-light and backlit scenarios is commonly encountered in real-world environments, significantly affecting image quality and downstream vision tasks. Most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ziang Wang , Xiaoqin Wang , Dingyi Wang , Qiang Li , Shushan Qiao

Rigorous testing of autonomous robots, such as self-driving vehicles, is essential to ensure their safety in real-world deployments. This requires building high-fidelity simulators to test scenarios beyond those that can be safely or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Haithem Turki , Qi Wu , Xin Kang , Janick Martinez Esturo , Shengyu Huang , Ruilong Li , Zan Gojcic , Riccardo de Lutio

Sensor fusion is a crucial augmentation technique for improving the accuracy and reliability of perception systems for automated vehicles under diverse driving conditions. However, adverse weather and low-light conditions remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Can Cui , Yunsheng Ma , Juanwu Lu , Ziran Wang

We present a novel Relightable Neural Renderer (RNR) for simultaneous view synthesis and relighting using multi-view image inputs. Existing neural rendering (NR) does not explicitly model the physical rendering process and hence has limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Zhang Chen , Anpei Chen , Guli Zhang , Chengyuan Wang , Yu Ji , Kiriakos N. Kutulakos , Jingyi Yu

Reinforcement learning for traffic signal control is bottlenecked by simulators: training in SUMO takes hours, reproducing results often requires days of platform-specific setup, and the slow iteration cycle discourages the multi-seed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Haoran Su , Hanxiao Deng

Full-image relighting remains a challenging problem due to the difficulty of collecting large-scale structured paired data, the difficulty of maintaining physical plausibility, and the limited generalizability imposed by data-driven priors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhexin Liang , Zhaoxi Chen , Yongwei Chen , Tianyi Wei , Tengfei Wang , Xingang Pan

With the growing demand for real-time video enhancement in live applications, existing methods often struggle to balance speed and effective exposure control, particularly under uneven lighting. We introduce RRNet (Rendering Relighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Wenlong Yang , Canran Jin , Weihang Yuan , Chao Wang , Lifeng Sun

Autonomous systems rely on sensors to estimate the environment around them. However, cameras, LiDARs, and RADARs have their own limitations. In nighttime or degraded environments such as fog, mist, or dust, thermal cameras can provide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Shruti Bansal , Wenshan Wang , Yifei Liu , Parv Maheshwari

Ensuring the safe and reliable operation of autonomous vehicles under adverse weather remains a significant challenge. To address this, we have developed a comprehensive dataset composed of sensor data acquired in a real test track and…

We introduce a neural relighting algorithm for captured indoors scenes, that allows interactive free-viewpoint navigation. Our method allows illumination to be changed synthetically, while coherently rendering cast shadows and complex…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Julien Philip , Sébastien Morgenthaler , Michaël Gharbi , George Drettakis

We introduce SynthLight, a diffusion model for portrait relighting. Our approach frames image relighting as a re-rendering problem, where pixels are transformed in response to changes in environmental lighting conditions. Using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Sumit Chaturvedi , Mengwei Ren , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Jingyuan Liu , Julie Dorsey , Zhixin Shu

Nighttime scenes are hard to semantically perceive with learned models and annotate for humans. Thus, realistic synthetic nighttime data become all the more important for learning robust semantic perception at night, thanks to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Konstantinos Tzevelekakis , Shutong Zhang , Luc Van Gool , Christos Sakaridis

Scalable sensor simulation is an important yet challenging open problem for safety-critical domains such as self-driving. Current works in image simulation either fail to be photorealistic or do not model the 3D environment and the dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yun Chen , Frieda Rong , Shivam Duggal , Shenlong Wang , Xinchen Yan , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Shangjie Xue , Ersin Yumer , Raquel Urtasun

Videos captured under low light conditions suffer from severe noise. A variety of efforts have been devoted to image/video noise suppression and made large progress. However, in extremely dark scenarios, extensive photon starvation would…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-16 Yuxiao Cheng , Runzhao Yang , Zhihong Zhang , Jinli Suo , Qionghai Dai

Image retrieval under varying illumination conditions, such as day and night images, is addressed by image preprocessing, both hand-crafted and learned. Prior to extracting image descriptors by a convolutional neural network, images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Tomas Jenicek , Ondřej Chum

We introduce Neural Point Light Fields that represent scenes implicitly with a light field living on a sparse point cloud. Combining differentiable volume rendering with learned implicit density representations has made it possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Julian Ost , Issam Laradji , Alejandro Newell , Yuval Bahat , Felix Heide

Image relighting has emerged as a problem of significant research interest inspired by augmented reality applications. Physics-based traditional methods, as well as black box deep learning models, have been developed. The existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Amirsaeed Yazdani , Tiantong Guo , Vishal Monga

We propose FreeSim, a camera simulation method for autonomous driving. FreeSim emphasizes high-quality rendering from viewpoints beyond the recorded ego trajectories. In such viewpoints, previous methods have unacceptable degradation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Lue Fan , Hao Zhang , Qitai Wang , Hongsheng Li , Zhaoxiang Zhang

We design and implement an end-to-end system for real-time crime detection in low-light environments. Unlike Closed-Circuit Television, which performs reactively, the Low-Light Environment Neural Surveillance provides real time crime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Michael Potter , Henry Gridley , Noah Lichtenstein , Kevin Hines , John Nguyen , Jacob Walsh