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Lens flare is a common nighttime artifact caused by strong light sources scattering within camera lenses, leading to hazy streaks, halos, and glare that degrade visual quality. However, existing methods usually fail to effectively address…

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Recent advances in inverse problem solving have increasingly adopted flow priors over diffusion models due to their ability to construct straight probability paths from noise to data, thereby enhancing efficiency in both training and…

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Despite diffusion models' superior capabilities in modeling complex distributions, there are still non-trivial distributional discrepancies between generated and ground-truth images, which has resulted in several notable problems in image…

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Single-image relighting is a challenging task that involves reasoning about the complex interplay between geometry, materials, and lighting. Many prior methods either support only specific categories of images, such as portraits, or require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Haian Jin , Yuan Li , Fujun Luan , Yuanbo Xiangli , Sai Bi , Kai Zhang , Zexiang Xu , Jin Sun , Noah Snavely

Recent work has shown that diffusion models can serve as powerful neural rendering engines that can be leveraged for inserting virtual objects into images. However, unlike typical physics-based renderers, these neural rendering engines are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Frédéric Fortier-Chouinard , Zitian Zhang , Louis-Etienne Messier , Mathieu Garon , Anand Bhattad , Jean-François Lalonde

Image inpainting is the task of reconstructing missing or damaged parts of an image in a way that seamlessly blends with the surrounding content. With the advent of advanced generative models, especially diffusion models and generative…

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Artificial lights commonly leave strong lens flare artifacts on images captured at night. Nighttime flare not only affects the visual quality but also degrades the performance of vision algorithms. Existing flare removal methods mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yuekun Dai , Chongyi Li , Shangchen Zhou , Ruicheng Feng , Chen Change Loy

Images can be viewed as layered compositions, foreground objects over background, with potential occlusions. This layered representation enables independent editing of elements, offering greater flexibility for content creation. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jingxi Chen , Yixiao Zhang , Xiaoye Qian , Zongxia Li , Cornelia Fermuller , Caren Chen , Yiannis Aloimonos

We present a novel framework for free-viewpoint facial performance relighting using diffusion-based image-to-image translation. Leveraging a subject-specific dataset containing diverse facial expressions captured under various lighting…

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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

Face video restoration (FVR) is a challenging but important problem where one seeks to recover a perceptually realistic face videos from a low-quality input. While diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have been shown to achieve remarkable…

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Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting have advanced novel view synthesis, yet still rely on dense inputs and often degrade at extrapolated views. Recent approaches leverage generative models, such as diffusion models, to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hongyu Zhou , Zisen Shao , Sheng Miao , Pan Wang , Dongfeng Bai , Bingbing Liu , Yiyi Liao

We present a diffusion-based portrait shadow removal approach that can robustly produce high-fidelity results. Unlike previous methods, we cast shadow removal as diffusion-based inpainting. To this end, we first train a shadow-independent…

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Recent advances in diffusion-based Large Restoration Models (LRMs) have significantly improved photo-realistic image restoration by leveraging the internal knowledge embedded within model weights. However, existing LRMs often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Hang Guo , Tao Dai , Zhihao Ouyang , Taolin Zhang , Yaohua Zha , Bin Chen , Shu-tao Xia

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

Event cameras have the potential to revolutionize vision systems with their high temporal resolution and dynamic range, yet they remain susceptible to lens flare, a fundamental optical artifact that causes severe degradation. In event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Haiqian Han , Lingdong Kong , Jianing Li , Ao Liang , Chengtao Zhu , Jiacheng Lyu , Lai Xing Ng , Xiangyang Ji , Wei Tsang Ooi , Benoit R. Cottereau

Fringe projection profilometry-based 3-D reconstruction of objects with high reflectivity and low surface roughness remains a significant challenge. When measuring such glossy surfaces, specular reflection and indirect illumination often…

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While burst Low-Resolution (LR) images are useful for improving their Super Resolution (SR) image compared to a single LR image, prior burst SR methods are trained in a deterministic manner, which produces a blurry SR image. Since such…

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Mesh reconstruction from multi-view images is a fundamental problem in computer vision, but its performance degrades significantly under sparse-view conditions, especially in unseen regions where no ground-truth observations are available.…

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