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High Dynamic Range (HDR) images can be recovered from several Low Dynamic Range (LDR) images by existing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) techniques. Despite the remarkable progress, DNN-based methods still generate ghosting artifacts when LDR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Qingsen Yan , Tao Hu , Yuan Sun , Hao Tang , Yu Zhu , Wei Dong , Luc Van Gool , Yanning Zhang

Recent generative methods for single-shot high dynamic range (HDR) image reconstruction show promising results, but often struggle with preserving fidelity to the input image. They require separate models to handle highlights and shadows,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Chinmay Talegaonkar , Jinshi He , Christopher McKenna , Nicholas Antipa

Light fields (LFs), conducive to comprehensive scene radiance recorded across angular dimensions, find wide applications in 3D reconstruction, virtual reality, and computational photography.However, the LF acquisition is inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Ruisheng Gao , Yutong Liu , Zeyu Xiao , Zhiwei Xiong

Diffusion models has underpinned much recent advances of dataset augmentation in various computer vision tasks. However, when involving generating multi-object images as real scenarios, most existing methods either rely entirely on text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Haoyu Wang , Lei Zhang , Wei Wei , Chen Ding , Yanning Zhang

Image harmonization, which involves adjusting the foreground of a composite image to attain a unified visual consistency with the background, can be conceptualized as an image-to-image translation task. Diffusion models have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Pengfei Zhou , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang

High dynamic range (HDR) video reconstruction aims to generate HDR videos from low dynamic range (LDR) frames captured with alternating exposures. Most existing works solely rely on the regression-based paradigm, leading to adverse effects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yuanshen Guan , Ruikang Xu , Mingde Yao , Ruisheng Gao , Lizhi Wang , Zhiwei Xiong

We consider the challenging problem of outdoor lighting estimation for the goal of photorealistic virtual object insertion into photographs. Existing works on outdoor lighting estimation typically simplify the scene lighting into an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Zian Wang , Wenzheng Chen , David Acuna , Jan Kautz , Sanja Fidler

This paper addresses the task of estimating the light arriving from all directions to a 3D point observed at a selected pixel in an RGB image. This task is challenging because it requires predicting a mapping from a partial scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Shuran Song , Thomas Funkhouser

The correct insertion of virtual objects in images of real-world scenes requires a deep understanding of the scene's lighting, geometry and materials, as well as the image formation process. While recent large-scale diffusion models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ruofan Liang , Zan Gojcic , Merlin Nimier-David , David Acuna , Nandita Vijaykumar , Sanja Fidler , Zian Wang

Image classification systems often inherit biases from uneven group representation in training data. For example, in face datasets for hair color classification, blond hair may be disproportionately associated with females, reinforcing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Abhipsa Basu , Aviral Gupta , Abhijnya Bhat , R. Venkatesh Babu

We describe a new method for comparing frame appearance in a frame-to-model 3-D mapping and tracking system using an low dynamic range (LDR) RGB-D camera which is robust to brightness changes caused by auto exposure. It is based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Shuda Li , Ankur Handa , Yang Zhang , Andrew Calway

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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Gowri Somanath , Daniel Kurz

Controlling illumination in images is essential for photography and visual content creation. While closed-source models have demonstrated impressive illumination control, open-source alternatives either require heavy control inputs like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Nishit Anand , Manan Suri , Christopher Metzler , Dinesh Manocha , Ramani Duraiswami

Estimating a scene's lighting is a very important task when compositing synthetic content within real environments, with applications in mixed reality and post-production. In this work we present a data-driven model that estimates an HDR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Vasileios Gkitsas , Nikolaos Zioulis , Federico Alvarez , Dimitrios Zarpalas , Petros Daras

We demonstrate generating HDR images using the concerted action of multiple black-box, pre-trained LDR image diffusion models. Relying on a pre-trained LDR generative diffusion models is vital as, first, there is no sufficiently large HDR…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Mojtaba Bemana , Thomas Leimkühler , Karol Myszkowski , Hans-Peter Seidel , Tobias Ritschel

While burst Low-Resolution (LR) images are useful for improving their Super Resolution (SR) image compared to a single LR image, prior burst SR methods are trained in a deterministic manner, which produces a blurry SR image. Since such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Kento Kawai , Takeru Oba , Kyotaro Tokoro , Kazutoshi Akita , Norimichi Ukita

Diffusion models have shown great promise in synthesizing visually appealing images. However, it remains challenging to condition the synthesis at a fine-grained level, for instance, synthesizing image pixels following some generic color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ka Chun Shum , Binh-Son Hua , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Sai-Kit Yeung

Image deblurring is an ill-posed problem with multiple plausible solutions for a given input image. However, most existing methods produce a deterministic estimate of the clean image and are trained to minimize pixel-level distortion. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jay Whang , Mauricio Delbracio , Hossein Talebi , Chitwan Saharia , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Peyman Milanfar

This paper presents a novel method for exerting fine-grained lighting control during text-driven diffusion-based image generation. While existing diffusion models already have the ability to generate images under any lighting condition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Chong Zeng , Yue Dong , Pieter Peers , Youkang Kong , Hongzhi Wu , Xin Tong

High dynamic range (HDR) rendering has the ability to faithfully reproduce the wide luminance ranges in natural scenes, but how to accurately assess the rendering quality is relatively underexplored. Existing quality models are mostly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Peibei Cao , Rafal K. Mantiuk , Kede Ma