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Video relighting is a challenging yet valuable task, aiming to replace the background in videos while correspondingly adjusting the lighting in the foreground with harmonious blending. During translation, it is essential to preserve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jianshu Zeng , Yuxuan Liu , Yutong Feng , Chenxuan Miao , Zixiang Gao , Jiwang Qu , Jianzhang Zhang , Bin Wang , Kun Yuan

Existing image enhancement methods fall short of expectations because with them it is difficult to improve global and local image contrast simultaneously. To address this problem, we propose a histogram equalization-based method that adapts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Xiaomeng Wu , Takahito Kawanishi , Kunio Kashino

Recent advances have shown that large-scale video diffusion models can be repurposed as neural renderers by first decomposing videos into intrinsic scene representations and then performing forward rendering under novel illumination. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Weiqing Xiao , Hong Li , Xiuyu Yang , Houyuan Chen , Wenyi Li , Tianqi Liu , Shaocong Xu , Chongjie Ye , Hao Zhao , Beibei Wang

Despite significant advancements in network-based image harmonization techniques, there still exists a domain disparity between typical training pairs and real-world composites encountered during inference. Most existing methods are trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Chris Careaga , S. Mahdi H. Miangoleh , Yağız Aksoy

Being able to relight human performance is a fundamental task for post production and content creation. We present BodyReLux, a subject-specific video diffusion-based framework for relighting full-body human performances in a temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Li Ma , Mingming He , Xueming Yu , David M. George , Ahmet Levent Taşel , Paul Debevec , Julien Philip

We introduce light diffusion, a novel method to improve lighting in portraits, softening harsh shadows and specular highlights while preserving overall scene illumination. Inspired by professional photographers' diffusers and scrims, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 David Futschik , Kelvin Ritland , James Vecore , Sean Fanello , Sergio Orts-Escolano , Brian Curless , Daniel Sýkora , Rohit Pandey

Image acquisition in low-light conditions suffers from poor quality and significant degradation in visual aesthetics. This affects the visual perception of the acquired image and the performance of various computer vision and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Sumit Shekhar , Max Reimann , Amir Semmo , Sebastian Pasewaldt , Jürgen Döllner , Matthias Trapp

Image harmonization aims at adjusting the appearance of the foreground to make it more compatible with the background. Without exploring background illumination and its effects on the foreground elements, existing works are incapable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zhongyun Hu , Ntumba Elie Nsampi , Xue Wang , Qing Wang

Image harmonization task aims at harmonizing different composite foreground regions according to specific background image. Previous methods would rather focus on improving the reconstruction ability of the generator by some internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Jingtang Liang , Chi-Man Pun

Image harmonization is an important step in photo editing to achieve visual consistency in composite images by adjusting the appearances of foreground to make it compatible with background. Previous approaches to harmonize composites are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Konstantin Sofiiuk , Polina Popenova , Anton Konushin

Learning-based image harmonization techniques are usually trained to undo synthetic random global transformations applied to a masked foreground in a single ground truth photo. This simulated data does not model many of the important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Ke Wang , Michaël Gharbi , He Zhang , Zhihao Xia , Eli Shechtman

We describe a novel integrated algorithm for real-time enhancement of video acquired under challenging lighting conditions. Such conditions include low lighting, haze, and high dynamic range situations. The algorithm automatically detects…

Graphics · Computer Science 2011-02-17 Xuan Dong , Jiangtao , Wen , Weixin Li , Yi , Pang , Guan Wang , Yao Lu , Wei Meng

Illuminating a scene with artificial light is a prerequisite for seeing in dark environments. However, nonuniform and dynamic illumination can deteriorate or even break computer vision approaches, for instance when operating a robot with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Yifan Song , Furkan Elibol , Mengkun She , David Nakath , Kevin Köser

Painterly image harmonization aims to insert photographic objects into paintings and obtain artistically coherent composite images. Previous methods for this task mainly rely on inference optimization or generative adversarial network, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Lingxiao Lu , Jiangtong Li , Junyan Cao , Li Niu , Liqing Zhang

Recent advances in diffusion-based generative models have established a new paradigm for image and video relighting. However, extending these capabilities to 4D relighting remains challenging, due primarily to the scarcity of paired 4D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Zhenghuang Wu , Kang Chen , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Tang

Enhancing low-light images while maintaining natural colors is a challenging problem due to camera processing variations and limited access to photos with ground-truth lighting conditions. The latter is a crucial factor for supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wojciech Kozłowski , Michał Szachniewicz , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba

Recent diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image relighting, and this success has quickly been extended to video relighting. However, existing methods offer limited explicit control over illumination in the relighted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yizuo Peng , Xuelin Chen , Kai Zhang , Xiaodong Cun

Video portrait relighting remains challenging because the results need to be both photorealistic and temporally stable. This typically requires a strong model design that can capture complex facial reflections as well as intensive training…

Image composition is an important operation in image processing, but the inconsistency between foreground and background significantly degrades the quality of composite image. Image harmonization, which aims to make the foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Wenyan Cong , Jianfu Zhang , Li Niu , Liu Liu , Zhixin Ling , Weiyuan Li , Liqing Zhang

Recent works on image harmonization solve the problem as a pixel-wise image translation task via large autoencoders. They have unsatisfactory performances and slow inference speeds when dealing with high-resolution images. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Zhanghan Ke , Chunyi Sun , Lei Zhu , Ke Xu , Rynson W. H. Lau