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Estimating scene lighting from a single image or video remains a longstanding challenge in computer vision and graphics. Learning-based approaches are constrained by the scarcity of ground-truth HDR environment maps, which are expensive to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ruofan Liang , Kai He , Zan Gojcic , Igor Gilitschenski , Sanja Fidler , Nandita Vijaykumar , Zian Wang

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

Editing High Dynamic Range (HDR) environment maps using an inverse differentiable rendering architecture is a complex inverse problem due to the sparsity of relevant pixels and the challenges in balancing light sources and background. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Antonio D'Orazio , Davide Sforza , Fabio Pellacini , Iacopo Masi

Pre-trained Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) have recently shown strong perceptual priors for low-level vision tasks, making them a promising direction for multi-exposure High Dynamic Range (HDR) reconstruction. However, directly applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tao Hu , Weiyu Zhou , Yanjie Tu , Peng Wu , Wei Dong , Qingsen Yan , Yanning Zhang

Latent diffusion models have proven to be state-of-the-art in the creation and manipulation of visual outputs. However, as far as we know, the generation of depth maps jointly with RGB is still limited. We introduce LDM3D-VR, a suite of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Gabriela Ben Melech Stan , Diana Wofk , Estelle Aflalo , Shao-Yen Tseng , Zhipeng Cai , Michael Paulitsch , Vasudev Lal

High Dynamic Range (HDR) generation remains challenging for generative models, which are largely limited to low dynamic range outputs. Recent diffusionbased approaches approximate HDR by generating multiple exposure-conditioned samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Pedram Fekri , WenChen Li , William Chen , Peter Altamirano

Recent illumination estimation methods have focused on enhancing the resolution and improving the quality and diversity of the generated textures. However, few have explored tailoring the neural network architecture to the Equirectangular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Jack Hilliard , Adrian Hilton , Jean-Yves Guillemaut

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

Digital imaging aims to replicate realistic scenes, but Low Dynamic Range (LDR) cameras cannot represent the wide dynamic range of real scenes, resulting in under-/overexposed images. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Dwip Dalal , Gautam Vashishtha , Prajwal Singh , Shanmuganathan Raman

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) typically focuses on restoring various degraded low-resolution (LR) images to a single high-resolution (HR) image. However, during SISR tasks, it is often challenging for models to simultaneously…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-10 Xin Wang , Jing-Ke Yan , Jing-Ye Cai , Jian-Hua Deng , Qin Qin , Yao Cheng

With the rapid advancement of remote sensing technology, super-resolution image reconstruction is of great research and practical significance. Existing deep learning methods have made progress but still face limitations in handling complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Shijie Lyu

Image rescaling aims to learn the optimal low-resolution (LR) image that can be accurately reconstructed to its original high-resolution (HR) counterpart, providing an efficient image processing and storage method for ultra-high definition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ce Wang , Zhenyu Hu , Wanjie Sun , Zhenzhong Chen

By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Dominik Lorenz , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

While latent diffusion models (LDMs), such as Stable Diffusion, are designed for high-resolution (HR) image generation, they often struggle with significant structural distortions when generating images at resolutions higher than their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Boyuan Cao , Jiaxin Ye , Yujie Wei , Hongming Shan

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

We present DualMat, a novel dual-path diffusion framework for estimating Physically Based Rendering (PBR) materials from single images under complex lighting conditions. Our approach operates in two distinct latent spaces: an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Yifeng Huang , Zhang Chen , Yi Xu , Minh Hoai , Zhong Li

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) suffer from inefficient inference due to their slow sampling and high memory consumption, which limits their applicability to various medical imaging applications. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Fahim Ahmed Zaman , Mathews Jacob , Amanda Chang , Kan Liu , Milan Sonka , Xiaodong Wu

Generating complete 360-degree panoramas from narrow field of view images is ongoing research as omnidirectional RGB data is not readily available. Existing GAN-based approaches face some barriers to achieving higher quality output, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Tianhao Wu , Chuanxia Zheng , Tat-Jen Cham

We present a simple yet effective technique to estimate lighting in a single input image. Current techniques rely heavily on HDR panorama datasets to train neural networks to regress an input with limited field-of-view to a full environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Pakkapon Phongthawee , Worameth Chinchuthakun , Nontaphat Sinsunthithet , Amit Raj , Varun Jampani , Pramook Khungurn , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Diffusion models face a fundamental trade-off between generation quality and computational efficiency. Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) offer an efficient solution but suffer from potential information loss and non-end-to-end training. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhennan Chen , Junwei Zhu , Xu Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Hanzhen Zhao , Chengjie Wang , Jian Yang , Ying Tai
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