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Recovering ghost-free High Dynamic Range (HDR) images from multiple Low Dynamic Range (LDR) images becomes challenging when the LDR images exhibit saturation and significant motion. Recent Diffusion Models (DMs) have been introduced in HDR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Tao Hu , Qingsen Yan , Yuankai Qi , Yanning Zhang

Conventional image quality metrics (IQMs), such as PSNR and SSIM, are designed for perceptually uniform gamma-encoded pixel values and cannot be directly applied to perceptually non-uniform linear high-dynamic-range (HDR) colors. Similarly,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Andrei Chubarau , Hyunjin Yoo , Tara Akhavan , James Clark

High dynamic range (HDR) image is widely-used in graphics and photography due to the rich information it contains. Recently the community has started using deep neural network (DNN) to reconstruct standard dynamic range (SDR) images into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Cheng Guo , Xiuhua Jiang

Continuous video monitoring in surveillance, robotics, and wearable systems faces a fundamental power constraint: conventional RGB cameras consume substantial energy through fixed-rate capture. Event cameras offer sparse, motion-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Dmitrii Torbunov , Onur Okuducu , Yi Huang , Odera Dim , Rebecca Coles , Yonggang Cui , Yihui Ren

Most of the real world scenes have a very high dynamic range (HDR). The mobile phone cameras and the digital cameras available in markets are limited in their capability in both the range and spatial resolution. Same argument can be posed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Govind Salvi , Puneet Sharma , Shanmuganathan Raman

Single-image HDR reconstruction aims to recover high dynamic range radiance from a single low dynamic range (LDR) input, but remains highly ill-posed due to detail saturation in over-exposed regions and noise amplification in under-exposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Aoyu Liu , Zhen Liu , Ziyi Wang , Dian Chen , Bing Zeng , Shuaicheng Liu

Modulo imaging enables high dynamic range (HDR) acquisition by cyclically wrapping saturated intensities, but accurate reconstruction remains challenging due to ambiguities between natural image edges and artificial wrap discontinuities.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Brayan Monroy , Jorge Bacca

Diffusion models have attained impressive visual quality for image synthesis. However, how to interpret and manipulate the latent space of diffusion models has not been extensively explored. Prior work diffusion autoencoders encode the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Zeyu Lu , Chengyue Wu , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Lei Bai , Yu Qiao , Xihui Liu

This paper considers the problem of generating an HDR image of a scene from its LDR images. Recent studies employ deep learning and solve the problem in an end-to-end fashion, leading to significant performance improvements. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Qian Ye , Jun Xiao , Kin-man Lam , Takayuki Okatani

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

High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) for real-world dynamic scenes is challenging because moving objects may lead to hybrid degradation of low dynamic range and motion blur. Existing event-based approaches only focus on a separate task, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Li Xiaopeng , Zeng Zhaoyuan , Fan Cien , Zhao Chen , Deng Lei , Yu Lei

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved performance in super-resolution (SR) tasks. However, previous research often overlooks the fundamental differences between SR and general image generation. General image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Hanlin Wu , Jiangwei Mo , Xiaohui Sun , Jie Ma

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

Recent work leverages Vision Foundation Models as image encoders to boost the generative performance of latent diffusion models (LDMs), as their semantic feature distributions are easy to learn. However, such semantic features often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Siyu Liu , Chujie Qin , Hubery Yin , Qixin Yan , Zheng-Peng Duan , Chen Li , Jing Lyu , Chun-Le Guo , Chongyi Li

The development of generative models in the past decade has allowed for hyperrealistic data synthesis. While potentially beneficial, this synthetic data generation process has been relatively underexplored in cancer histopathology. One…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Aakash Madhav Rao , Debayan Gupta

We propose a multi-layer variational autoencoder method, we call HR-VQVAE, that learns hierarchical discrete representations of the data. By utilizing a novel objective function, each layer in HR-VQVAE learns a discrete representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Mohammad Adiban , Kalin Stefanov , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Giampiero Salvi

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) power state-of-the-art high-resolution generative image models. LDMs learn the data distribution in the latent space of an autoencoder (AE) and produce images by mapping the generated latents into RGB image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Tariq Berrada , Pietro Astolfi , Melissa Hall , Marton Havasi , Yohann Benchetrit , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Karteek Alahari , Michal Drozdzal , Jakob Verbeek

We seek to reconstruct sharp and noise-free high-dynamic range (HDR) video from a dual-exposure sensor that records different low-dynamic range (LDR) information in different pixel columns: Odd columns provide low-exposure, sharp, but noisy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Uğur Çoğalan , Mojtaba Bemana , Karol Myszkowski , Hans-Peter Seidel , Tobias Ritschel

Reconstruction of High Dynamic Range (HDR) from Low Dynamic Range (LDR) images is an important computer vision task. There is a significant amount of research utilizing both conventional non-learning methods and modern data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hrishav Bakul Barua , Kalin Stefanov , Lemuel Lai En Che , Abhinav Dhall , KokSheik Wong , Ganesh Krishnasamy

As generative technologies advance, visual content has evolved into a complex mix of natural and AI-generated images, driving the need for more efficient coding techniques that prioritize perceptual quality. Traditional codecs and learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jianhui Chang