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A major challenge for high dynamic range (HDR) image reconstruction from multi-exposed low dynamic range (LDR) images, especially with dynamic scenes, is the extraction and merging of relevant contextual features in order to suppress any…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-09 Lingkai Zhu , Fei Zhou , Bozhi Liu , Orcun Göksel

This paper tackles high-dynamic-range (HDR) image reconstruction given only a single low-dynamic-range (LDR) image as input. While the existing methods focus on minimizing the mean-squared-error (MSE) between the target and reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Kenta Moriwaki , Ryota Yoshihashi , Rei Kawakami , Shaodi You , Takeshi Naemura

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

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging provides the capability of handling real world lighting as opposed to the traditional low dynamic range (LDR) which struggles to accurately represent images with higher dynamic range. However, most imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Demetris Marnerides , Thomas Bashford-Rogers , Jonathan Hatchett , Kurt Debattista

Single LDR to HDR reconstruction remains challenging for over-exposed regions where traditional methods often fail due to complete information loss. We present a training-free approach that enhances existing indirect and direct HDR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yo-Tin Lin , Su-Kai Chen , Hou-Ning Hu , Yen-Yu Lin , Yu-Lun Liu

High dynamic range (HDR) photography is becoming increasingly popular and available by DSLR and mobile-phone cameras. While deep neural networks (DNN) have greatly impacted other domains of image manipulation, their use for HDR tone-mapping…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Yael Vinker , Inbar Huberman-Spiegelglas , Raanan Fattal

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

Capturing scenes with a high dynamic range is crucial to reproducing images that appear similar to those seen by the human visual system. Despite progress in developing data-driven deep learning approaches for converting low dynamic range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Edwin Pan , Anthony Vento

We propose an automatic method to infer high dynamic range illumination from a single, limited field-of-view, low dynamic range photograph of an indoor scene. In contrast to previous work that relies on specialized image capture, user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Marc-André Gardner , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Ersin Yumer , Xiaohui Shen , Emiliano Gambaretto , Christian Gagné , Jean-François Lalonde

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

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

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

This paper reviews the first challenge on high-dynamic range (HDR) imaging that was part of the New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (NTIRE) workshop, held in conjunction with CVPR 2021. This manuscript focuses on the newly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero , Sibi Catley-Chandar , Aleš Leonardis , Radu Timofte

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

Regular cameras and cell phones are able to capture limited luminosity. Thus, in terms of quality, most of the produced images from such devices are not similar to the real world. They are overly dark or too bright, and the details are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Ali Reza Omrani , Davide Moroni

HDR reconstruction is an important task in computer vision with many industrial needs. The traditional approaches merge multiple exposure shots to generate HDRs that correspond to the physical quantity of illuminance of the scene. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Wei Wei , Li Guan , Yue Liu , Hao Kang , Haoxiang Li , Ying Wu , Gang Hua

Capturing High Dynamic Range (HDR) scenery using 8-bit cameras often suffers from over-/underexposure, loss of fine details due to low bit-depth compression, skewed color distributions, and strong noise in dark areas. Traditional LDR image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Baiang Li , Sizhuo Ma , Yanhong Zeng , Xiaogang Xu , Youqing Fang , Zhao Zhang , Jian Wang , Kai Chen

Inverse rendering seeks to recover 3D geometry, surface material, and lighting from captured images, enabling advanced applications such as novel-view synthesis, relighting, and virtual object insertion. However, most existing techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Chih-Hao Lin , Jia-Bin Huang , Zhengqin Li , Zhao Dong , Christian Richardt , Tuotuo Li , Michael Zollhöfer , Johannes Kopf , Shenlong Wang , Changil Kim

Low dynamic range (LDR) cameras cannot deal with wide dynamic range inputs, frequently leading to local overexposure issues. We present a learning-based system to reduce these artifacts without resorting to complex acquisition mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yazhou Xing , Amrita Mazumdar , Anjul Patney , Chao Liu , Hongxu Yin , Qifeng Chen , Jan Kautz , Iuri Frosio

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