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While consumer displays increasingly support more than 10 stops of dynamic range, most image assets such as internet photographs and generative AI content remain limited to 8-bit low dynamic range (LDR), constraining their utility across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Chao Wang , Zhihao Xia , Thomas Leimkuehler , Karol Myszkowski , Xuaner Zhang

Synthesizing high dynamic range (HDR) images from multiple low-dynamic range (LDR) exposures in dynamic scenes is challenging. There are two major problems caused by the large motions of foreground objects. One is the severe misalignment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Yuzhen Niu , Jianbin Wu , Wenxi Liu , Wenzhong Guo , Rynson W. H. Lau

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved state-of-the-art results for image synthesis tasks as well as density estimation. Applied in the latent space of a powerful pretrained autoencoder (LDM), their immense computational requirements can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jeremias Traub

Mapping a single exposure low dynamic range (LDR) image into a high dynamic range (HDR) is considered among the most strenuous image to image translation tasks due to exposure-related missing information. This study tackles the challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 SMA Sharif , Rizwan Ali Naqvi , Mithun Biswas , Kim Sungjun

In this paper, we propose a deep snapshot high dynamic range (HDR) imaging framework that can effectively reconstruct an HDR image from the RAW data captured using a multi-exposure color filter array (ME-CFA), which consists of a mosaic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Takeru Suda , Masayuki Tanaka , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

Clear imaging under hazy conditions is a critical task. Prior-based and neural methods have improved results. However, they operate on RGB frames, which suffer from limited dynamic range. Therefore, dehazing remains ill-posed and can erase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ling Wang , Yunfan Lu , Wenzong Ma , Huizai Yao , Pengteng Li , Hui Xiong

In recent years, Diffusion Models have become the new state-of-the-art in deep generative modeling, ending the long-time dominance of Generative Adversarial Networks. Inspired by the Regularization by Denoising principle, we introduce an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Pasquale Cascarano , Lorenzo Stacchio , Andrea Sebastiani , Alessandro Benfenati , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Gustavo Marfia

The high dynamic range (HDR) video ecosystem is approaching maturity, but the problem of upconverting legacy standard dynamic range (SDR) videos persists without a convincing solution. We propose a framework for HDR video synthesis from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 SaiKiran Tedla , Francesco Banterle , Trevor Canham , Karanpreet Raja , David B. Lindell , Kiriakos N. Kutulakos , Jiacheng Li , Feiran Li , Daisuke Iso

Most consumer-grade digital cameras can only capture a limited range of luminance in real-world scenes due to sensor constraints. Besides, noise and quantization errors are often introduced in the imaging process. In order to obtain high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Xiangyu Chen , Yihao Liu , Zhengwen Zhang , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have recently attracted increasing attention by showing impressive synthesis quality. DDMs are built on a diffusion process that pushes data to the noise distribution and the models learn to denoise. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jaemoo Choi , Yesom Park , Myungjoo Kang

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

High dynamic range (HDR) video reconstruction from sequences captured with alternating exposures is a very challenging problem. Existing methods often align low dynamic range (LDR) input sequence in the image space using optical flow, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Guanying Chen , Chaofeng Chen , Shi Guo , Zhetong Liang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Lei Zhang

Recently, diffusion models have shown remarkable results in image synthesis by gradually removing noise and amplifying signals. Although the simple generative process surprisingly works well, is this the best way to generate image data? For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Sangyun Lee , Hyungjin Chung , Jaehyeon Kim , Jong Chul Ye

There are shadow and highlight regions in a low dynamic range (LDR) image which is captured from a high dynamic range (HDR) scene. It is an ill-posed problem to restore the saturated regions of the LDR image. In this paper, the saturated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Chaobing Zheng , Zhengguo Li , Shiqian Wu

Low Dynamic Range (LDR) to High Dynamic Range (HDR) image translation is a fundamental task in many computational vision problems. Numerous data-driven methods have been proposed to address this problem; however, they lack explicit modeling…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Hrishav Bakul Barua , Kalin Stefanov , Ganesh Krishnasamy , KokSheik Wong , Abhinav Dhall

Merging multi-exposure images is a common approach for obtaining high dynamic range (HDR) images, with the primary challenge being the avoidance of ghosting artifacts in dynamic scenes. Recent methods have proposed using deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Zhilu Zhang , Haoyu Wang , Shuai Liu , Xiaotao Wang , Lei Lei , Wangmeng Zuo

Most digital videos are stored in 8-bit low dynamic range (LDR) formats, where much of the original high dynamic range (HDR) scene radiance is lost due to saturation and quantization. This loss of highlight and shadow detail precludes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhengming Yu , Li Ma , Mingming He , Leo Isikdogan , Yuancheng Xu , Dmitriy Smirnov , Pablo Salamanca , Dao Mi , Pablo Delgado , Ning Yu , Julien Philip , Xin Li , Wenping Wang , Paul Debevec

While today's high dynamic range (HDR) image fusion algorithms are capable of blending multiple exposures, the acquisition is often controlled so that the dynamic range within one exposure is narrow. For HDR imaging in photon-limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Yiheng Chi , Xingguang Zhang , Stanley H. Chan

Denoising diffusion models have gained popularity as a generative modeling technique for producing high-quality and diverse images. Applying these models to downstream tasks requires conditioning, which can take the form of text, class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Alexandros Graikos , Srikar Yellapragada , Dimitris Samaras

Most in-the-wild images are stored in Low Dynamic Range (LDR) form, serving as a partial observation of the High Dynamic Range (HDR) visual world. Despite limited dynamic range, these LDR images are often captured with different exposures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Chao Wang , Ana Serrano , Xingang Pan , Bin Chen , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt , Karol Myszkowski , Thomas Leimkuehler