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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

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve illumination while preserving high-quality color and texture. However, existing methods often fail to extract reliable feature representations due to severely degraded pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xu Wu , Zhihui Lai , Xianxu Hou , Jie Zhou , Ya-nan Zhang , Linlin Shen

Recently, plain vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive performance on various computer vision tasks, thanks to their strong modeling capacity and large-scale pretraining. However, they have not yet conquered the problem of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Jingfeng Yao , Xinggang Wang , Shusheng Yang , Baoyuan Wang

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

We present a method for estimating detailed scene illumination using human faces in a single image. In contrast to previous works that estimate lighting in terms of low-order basis functions or distant point lights, our technique estimates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Renjiao Yi , Chenyang Zhu , Ping Tan , Stephen Lin

Illuminant estimation plays a key role in digital camera pipeline system, it aims at reducing color casting effect due to the influence of non-white illuminant. Recent researches handle this task by using Convolution Neural Network (CNN) as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Yongjie Liu , Sijie Shen

Real-time rendering with global illumination is crucial to afford the user realistic experience in virtual environments. We present a learning-based estimator to predict diffuse indirect illumination in screen space, which then is combined…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Meng Gai , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Inverse path tracing has recently been applied to joint material and lighting estimation, given geometry and multi-view HDR observations of an indoor scene. However, it has two major limitations: path tracing is expensive to compute, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Liwen Wu , Rui Zhu , Mustafa B. Yaldiz , Yinhao Zhu , Hong Cai , Janarbek Matai , Fatih Porikli , Tzu-Mao Li , Manmohan Chandraker , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Progress in lighting estimation is tracked by computing existing image quality assessment (IQA) metrics on images from standard datasets. While this may appear to be a reasonable approach, we demonstrate that doing so does not correlate to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Justine Giroux , Mohammad Reza Karimi Dastjerdi , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Jean-François Lalonde

As critical visual details become obscured, the low visibility and high ISO noise in extremely low-light images pose a significant challenge to human pose estimation. Current methods fail to provide high-quality representations due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Feng Zhang , Ze Li , Xiatian Zhu , Lei Chen

Advances in high dynamic range (HDR) lighting estimation from a single image have opened new possibilities for augmented reality (AR) applications. Predicting complex lighting environments from a single input image allows for the realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zitian Zhang , Joshua Urban Davis , Jeanne Phuong Anh Vu , Jiangtao Kuang , Jean-François Lalonde

Low-light image enhancement is a promising solution to tackle the problem of insufficient sensitivity of human vision system (HVS) to perceive information in low light environments. Previous Retinex-based works always accomplish enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-18 Xiaoxiao Li , Xiaopeng Guo , Liye Mei , Mingyu Shang , Jie Gao , Maojing Shu , Xiang Wang

In this paper we present a deep learning method to estimate the illuminant of an image. Our model is not trained with illuminant annotations, but with the objective of improving performance on an auxiliary task such as object recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Marco Buzzelli , Joost van de Weijer , Raimondo Schettini

Inferring the scene illumination from a single image is an essential yet challenging task in computer vision and computer graphics. Existing works estimate lighting by regressing representative illumination parameters or generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Fangneng Zhan , Yingchen Yu , Changgong Zhang , Rongliang Wu , Wenbo Hu , Shijian Lu , Feiying Ma , Xuansong Xie , Ling Shao

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

Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely used to solve the illuminant estimation problem and have often led to state-of-the-art results. Standard approaches operate directly on the input image. In this paper, we argue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Firas Laakom , Jenni Raitoharju , Jarno Nikkanen , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

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

We design a family of image classification architectures that optimize the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency in a high-speed regime. Our work exploits recent findings in attention-based architectures, which are competitive on highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ben Graham , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Hugo Touvron , Pierre Stock , Armand Joulin , Hervé Jégou , Matthijs Douze

When one captures images in low-light conditions, the images often suffer from low visibility. This poor quality may significantly degrade the performance of many computer vision and multimedia algorithms that are primarily designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Xiaojie Guo

How can we accurately quantize a pre-trained Vision Transformer model? Quantization algorithms compress Vision Transformers (ViTs) into low-bit formats, reducing memory and computation demands with minimal accuracy degradation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Minjun Kim , Jaeri Lee , Jongjin Kim , Jeongin Yun , Yongmo Kwon , U Kang
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