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Most in-the-wild images are stored in Low Dynamic Range (LDR) form, serving as a partial observation of the High Dynamic Range (HDR) visual world. Despite limited dynamic range, these LDR images are often captured with different exposures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Chao Wang , Ana Serrano , Xingang Pan , Bin Chen , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt , Karol Myszkowski , Thomas Leimkuehler

We present a no-reference video quality model and algorithm that delivers standout performance for High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos, which we call HDR-ChipQA. HDR videos represent wider ranges of luminances, details, and colors than Standard…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Joshua P. Ebenezer , Zaixi Shang , Yongjun Wu , Hai Wei , Sriram Sethuraman , Alan C. Bovik

High Dynamic Range (HDR) video acquisition using the alternating exposure (AE) paradigm has garnered significant attention due to its cost-effectiveness with a single consumer camera. However, despite progress driven by deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Qianyu Zhang , Bolun Zheng , Lingyu Zhu , Hangjia Pan , Zunjie Zhu , Zongpeng Li , Shiqi Wang

We introduce Mono4DGS-HDR, the first system for reconstructing renderable 4D high dynamic range (HDR) scenes from unposed monocular low dynamic range (LDR) videos captured with alternating exposures. To tackle such a challenging problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jinfeng Liu , Lingtong Kong , Mi Zhou , Jinwen Chen , Dan Xu

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

Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) have emerged as powerful generative tools, capable of synthesizing high-quality spatiotemporal content. Yet, their potential goes far beyond mere video generation. We argue that the training dynamics of VDMs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Pablo Acuaviva , Aram Davtyan , Mariam Hassan , Sebastian Stapf , Ahmad Rahimi , Alexandre Alahi , Paolo Favaro

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

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging under extreme illumination remains challenging for conventional cameras due to overexposure. Event cameras provide microsecond temporal resolution and high dynamic range, while spatially varying exposure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Pengju Sun , Banglei Guan , Jing Tao , Zhenbao Yu , Xuanyu Bai , Yang Shang , Qifeng Yu

Reconstruction of high-quality HDR images is at the core of modern computational photography. Significant progress has been made with multi-frame HDR reconstruction methods, producing high-resolution, rich and accurate color reconstructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Richard Shaw , Sibi Catley-Chandar , Ales Leonardis , Eduardo Perez-Pellitero

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yazhou Xing , Amrita Mazumdar , Anjul Patney , Chao Liu , Hongxu Yin , Qifeng Chen , Jan Kautz , Iuri Frosio

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is a highly challenging task since a large amount of information is lost due to the limitations of camera sensors. For HDR imaging, some methods capture multiple low dynamic range (LDR) images with altering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Haesoo Chung , Nam Ik Cho

Merging multi-exposure images is a common approach for obtaining high dynamic range (HDR) images, with the primary challenge being the avoidance of ghosting artifacts in dynamic scenes. Recent methods have proposed using deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Zhilu Zhang , Haoyu Wang , Shuai Liu , Xiaotao Wang , Lei Lei , Wangmeng Zuo

High Dynamic Range (HDR) user-generated (UGC) videos are rapidly proliferating across social platforms, yet most perceptual video quality assessment (VQA) systems remain tailored to Standard Dynamic Range (SDR). HDR has a higher bit depth,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shreshth Saini , Bowen Chen , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is of fundamental importance in modern digital photography pipelines and used to produce a high-quality photograph with well exposed regions despite varying illumination across the image. This is typically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-24 Sibi Catley-Chandar , Thomas Tanay , Lucas Vandroux , Aleš Leonardis , Gregory Slabaugh , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

Radiance of real-world scenes typically spans a much wider dynamic range than what standard cameras can capture. While conventional HDR methods merge alternating-exposure frames, these approaches are inherently constrained to 2D pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Shin Dong-Yeon , Kim Jun-Seong , Kwon Byung-Ki , Tae-Hyun Oh

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is a crucial task in computational photography, which captures details across diverse lighting conditions. Traditional HDR fusion methods face limitations in dynamic scenes with extreme exposure differences,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Shi Guo , Zixuan Chen , Ziran Zhang , Yutian Chen , Gangwei Xu , Tianfan Xue

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

The rise of HDR-WCG display devices has highlighted the need to convert SDRTV to HDRTV, as most video sources are still in SDR. Existing methods primarily focus on designing neural networks to learn a single-style mapping from SDRTV to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Gang He , Kepeng Xu , Li Xu , Siqi Wang , Wenxin Yu , Xianyun Wu

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging provides the capability of handling real world lighting as opposed to the traditional low dynamic range (LDR) which struggles to accurately represent images with higher dynamic range. However, most imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Demetris Marnerides , Thomas Bashford-Rogers , Jonathan Hatchett , Kurt Debattista

We introduce a novel feature set, which we call HDRMAX features, that when included into Video Quality Assessment (VQA) algorithms designed for Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) videos, sensitizes them to distortions of High Dynamic Range (HDR)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Joshua P. Ebenezer , Zaixi Shang , Yongjun Wu , Hai Wei , Sriram Sethuraman , Alan C. Bovik