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We demonstrated a CMOS imaging system that adapts each pixel's exposure and sampling rate to capture high dynamic range (HDR) videos. The system consist of a custom designed image sensor with pixel-wise exposure configurability and a…

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Traditional image signal processing (ISP) pipeline consists of a set of individual image processing components onboard a camera to reconstruct a high-quality sRGB image from the sensor raw data. Due to the hand-crafted nature of the ISP…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-09 Zhetong Liang , Jianrui Cai , Zisheng Cao , Lei Zhang

Single-image HDR reconstruction aims to recover high dynamic range radiance from a single low dynamic range (LDR) input, but remains highly ill-posed due to detail saturation in over-exposed regions and noise amplification in under-exposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Aoyu Liu , Zhen Liu , Ziyi Wang , Dian Chen , Bing Zeng , Shuaicheng Liu

We seek to reconstruct sharp and noise-free high-dynamic range (HDR) video from a dual-exposure sensor that records different low-dynamic range (LDR) information in different pixel columns: Odd columns provide low-exposure, sharp, but noisy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Uğur Çoğalan , Mojtaba Bemana , Karol Myszkowski , Hans-Peter Seidel , Tobias Ritschel

High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging aims to replicate the high visual quality and clarity of real-world scenes. Due to the high costs associated with HDR imaging, the literature offers various data-driven methods for HDR image reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Hrishav Bakul Barua , Ganesh Krishnasamy , KokSheik Wong , Abhinav Dhall , Kalin Stefanov

High-dynamic-range (HDR) photography involves fusing a bracket of images taken at different exposure settings in order to compensate for the low dynamic range of digital cameras such as the ones used in smartphones. In this paper, a method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Reza Pourreza , Nasser Kehtarnavaz

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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely used for illumination estimation, which is time-consuming and requires sensor-specific data collection. Our proposed method uses a dual-mapping strategy and only requires a simple white point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Shuwei Yue , Minchen Wei

Mueller matrix (MM) polarimetry is an effective, non-invasive tool for retrieving information from complex media. However, the finite dynamic range of optical detectors poses a significant challenge when measurements involve strong…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-27 Lourdes Camblor-Navarro , Iago Pardo , Oriol Arteaga

Gated cameras flood-illuminate a scene and capture the time-gated impulse response of a scene. By employing nanosecond-scale gates, existing sensors are capable of capturing mega-pixel gated images, delivering dense depth improving on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Samuel Brucker , Stefanie Walz , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

Achieving high-quality High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging on resource-constrained edge devices is a critical challenge in computer vision, as its performance directly impacts downstream tasks such as intelligent surveillance and autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yu-Shen Huang , Tzu-Han Chen , Cheng-Yen Hsiao , Shaou-Gang Miaou

In many image-related tasks, learning expressive and discriminative representations of images is essential, and deep learning has been studied for automating the learning of such representations. Some user-centric tasks, such as image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Chenyi Lei , Dong Liu , Weiping Li , Zheng-Jun Zha , Houqiang Li

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

Current HDR acquisition techniques are based on either (i) fusing multibracketed, low dynamic range (LDR) images, (ii) modifying existing hardware and capturing different exposures simultaneously with multiple sensors, or (iii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Ana Serrano , Felix Heide , Diego Gutierrez , Gordon Wetzstein , Belen Masia

Event cameras such as DAVIS can simultaneously output high temporal resolution events and low frame-rate intensity images, which own great potential in capturing scene motion, such as optical flow estimation. Most of the existing optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Zhexiong Wan , Yuchao Dai , Yuxin Mao

Image correction aims to adjust an input image into a visually pleasing one. Existing approaches are proposed mainly from the perspective of image pixel manipulation. They are not effective to recover the details in the under/over exposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Xin Yang , Ke Xu , Yibing Song , Qiang Zhang , Xiaopeng Wei , Rynson Lau

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) task aims at improving contrast while restoring details and textures for images captured in low-light conditions. HVI color space has made significant progress in this task by enabling precise decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xin Xu , Hao Liu , Wei Liu , Wei Wang , Jiayi Wu , Kui Jiang

We describe a method aiming at increasing the dynamic range of X-ray detectors. Two X-ray exposures of an object are acquired at different dose levels and constitute the only input data. The values of the parameters which are needed to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Evangelos Matsinos , Wolfgang Kaissl

Real-world imaging systems acquire measurements that are degraded by noise, optical aberrations, and other imperfections that make image processing for human viewing and higher-level perception tasks challenging. Conventional cameras…

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In this work we describe a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to accurately predict the scene illumination. Taking image patches as input, the CNN works in the spatial domain without using hand-crafted features that are employed by most…

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