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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…

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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

Recently, high dynamic range (HDR) image reconstruction based on the multiple exposure stack from a given single exposure utilizes a deep learning framework to generate high-quality HDR images. These conventional networks focus on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Jung Hee Kim , Siyeong Lee , Suk-Ju Kang

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

The paper proposes a method to effectively fuse multi-exposure inputs and generate high-quality high dynamic range (HDR) images with unpaired datasets. Deep learning-based HDR image generation methods rely heavily on paired datasets. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-18 Ru Li , Chuan Wang , Jue Wang , Guanghui Liu , Heng-Yu Zhang , Bing Zeng , Shuaicheng Liu

Reconstructing High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos from sequences of alternating-exposure Low Dynamic Range (LDR) frames remains highly challenging, especially under dynamic scenes where cross-exposure inconsistencies and complex motion make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Huanjing Yue , Dawei Li , Shaoxiong Tu , Jingyu Yang

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is an important task in image processing that aims to generate well-exposed images in scenes with varying illumination. Although existing multi-exposure fusion methods have achieved impressive results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jun Xiao , Qian Ye , Tianshan Liu , Cong Zhang , Kin-Man Lam

High Dynamic Range (HDR) content creation has become an important topic for modern media and entertainment sectors, gaming and Augmented/Virtual Reality industries. Many methods have been proposed to recreate the HDR counterparts of input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Hrishav Bakul Barua , Ganesh Krishnasamy , KokSheik Wong , Kalin Stefanov , Abhinav Dhall

Reconstructing high dynamic range (HDR) images from low dynamic range (LDR) bursts plays an essential role in the computational photography. Impressive progress has been achieved by learning-based algorithms which require LDR-HDR image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Wei Jiang , Jiahao Cui , Yizheng Wu , Zhan Peng , Zhiyu Pan , Zhiguo Cao

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging technique aims to create realistic HDR images from low dynamic range (LDR) inputs. Specifically, Multi-exposure HDR imaging uses multiple LDR frames taken from the same scene to improve reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Keuntek Lee , Jaehyun Park , Nam Ik Cho

Modern Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) typically operate in low-level Variational Autoencoder (VAE) latent spaces that are primarily optimized for pixel-level reconstruction. To unify vision generation and understanding, a burgeoning trend…

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Ultra-high dynamic range (UHDR) scenes exhibit significant exposure disparities between bright and dark regions. Such conditions are commonly encountered in nighttime scenes with light sources. Even with standard exposure settings, a…

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High dynamic range (HDR) imaging aims to obtain a high-quality HDR image by fusing information from multiple low dynamic range (LDR) images. Numerous learning-based HDR imaging methods have been proposed to achieve this for static and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Yu Yuan , Yiheng Chi , Xingguang Zhang , Stanley Chan

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

Due to hardware constraints, standard off-the-shelf digital cameras suffers from low dynamic range (LDR) and low frame per second (FPS) outputs. Previous works in high dynamic range (HDR) video reconstruction uses sequence of alternating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Zeeshan Khan , Parth Shettiwar , Mukul Khanna , Shanmuganathan Raman

Sensor fusion can significantly improve the performance of many computer vision tasks. However, traditional fusion approaches are either not data-driven and cannot exploit prior knowledge nor find regularities in a given dataset or they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Fabian Duffhauss , Ngo Anh Vien , Hanna Ziesche , Gerhard Neumann

Recent innovations shows that blending of details captured by single Low Dynamic Range (LDR) sensor overcomes the limitations of standard digital cameras to capture details from high dynamic range scene. We present a method to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Harbinder Singh , Dinesh Arora , Vinay Kumar

Visual generative models (e.g., diffusion models) typically operate in compressed latent spaces to balance training efficiency and sample quality. In parallel, there has been growing interest in leveraging high-quality pre-trained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yuan Gao , Chen Chen , Tianrong Chen , Jiatao Gu

Image compression under ultra-low bitrates remains challenging for both conventional learned image compression (LIC) and generative vector-quantized (VQ) modeling. Conventional LIC suffers from severe artifacts due to heavy quantization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Lei Lu , Yize Li , Yanzhi Wang , Wei Wang , Wei Jiang

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…

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