arXiv:2609.39624v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Single-image HDR reconstruction requires inferring missing detail while preserving the visible content of an LDR image. Differences in sensor dynamic r...
By Mehmet Emre and{\i}ran, Zhuoqian Yang, Liying Lu, Mathieu Salzmann, Sabine S\"usstrunk
InstantHDR is a feed-forward network that initializes high dynamic range (HDR) 3D scenes from uncalibrated multi-exposure low dynamic range (LDR) image collections in a single forward pass. It uses geometry-guided appearance modeling for multi-exposure fusion and a meta-network for scene-specific tone mapping. The authors also created a pre-training dataset, HDR-Pretrain, with 168 Blender-rendered scenes to support generalizable HDR models, achieving a speedup of about 700× over state‑of‑the‑art optimization methods while maintaining comparable quality after lightweight post‑optimization.
By Dingqiang Ye, Jiacong Xu, Jianglu Ping, Yuxiang Guo, Chao Fan, Vishal M. Patel
PriorGS is a 3D Gaussian Splatting framework for single‑exposure high dynamic range (HDR) novel view synthesis that uses learned priors to guide HDR reconstruction and camera response function (CRF) estimation. It introduces a 3D base‑gain HDR representation, separating HDR radiance into an LDR base and a 3D gain field, which improves robustness to inconsistencies in pseudo‑HDR targets and enables 3D HDR appearance editing. Experiments show PriorGS outperforms existing baselines in HDR reconstruction quality.
By Armin Shafiee Sarvestani, Sheyang Tang, Jialu Xu, Zhou Wang
Due to the limited dynamic range of conventional image sensors, captured low dynamic range (LDR) video often suffers from highlight clipping and shadow detail loss, making high-quality high dynamic ra...
arXiv:2609.27274v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Due to the limited dynamic range of conventional image sensors, captured low dynamic range (LDR) video often suffers from highlight clipping and shadow...
By Tao Zhang, Peixian Su, Xingyu Gao, Yunhao Zou, Yu Lu, Zunjie Zhu, Bolun Zheng, Ying Fu, Chenggang Yan
arXiv:2608.28674v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-exposure is an efficient way to capture real-world high-dynamic-range (HDR) scenes. However, HDR imaging suffers from severe ghosting artifacts i...
By Qian Tao, Wei Wang, Chaobing Zheng, Zhengguo Li
The paper presents a framework for converting standard dynamic range (SDR) videos into high dynamic range (HDR) videos using large-scale generative video models. It introduces a Multi-Exposure Video Model (MEVM) that predicts exposure-bracketed linear SDR sequences from a single nonlinear SDR input, and a Video Merging Model (VMM) that fuses these predictions into a high-quality HDR sequence while preserving detail in shadows and highlights. Experiments, qualitative evaluation, and a user study demonstrate robust HDR conversion for casual consumer footage and iconic films, and the approach can be integrated into existing SDR generative video pipelines.
By SaiKiran Tedla, Francesco Banterle, Trevor Canham, Karanpreet Raja, David B. Lindell, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Jiacheng Li, Feiran Li, Daisuke Iso
arXiv:2604.06161v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Most digital videos are stored in 8-bit low dynamic range (LDR) formats, where much of the original high dynamic range (HDR) scene radiance i...
By Zhengming Yu, Li Ma, Mingming He, Leo Isikdogan, Yuancheng Xu, Dmitriy Smirnov, Pablo Salamanca, Dao Mi, Pablo Delgado, Ning Yu, Julien Philip, Xin Li, Wenping Wang, Paul Debevec
The paper introduces a method for progressively extending the dynamic range of an image by learning to increase it by a single exposure value first, then applying the network recurrently to achieve full HDR reconstruction. The approach is agnostic to input dynamic range, targets a bounded output domain, and utilizes RAW images with adversarial losses to produce realistic results. Memory Replay during backpropagation allows training over multiple inference stages, reducing reconstruction errors and enabling robust recovery of bright highlights in long‑tailed HDR scenes.
By Sebastian Dille, Keru Fu, S. Mahdi H. Miangoleh, Ya\u{g}{\i}z Aksoy
arXiv:2608.30400v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: High-dynamic-range (HDR) images, with their rich tone and detail reproduction, hold significant potential to enhance computer vision systems, particula...
By Gongzhe Li, Linwei Qiu, Peibei Cao, Fengying Xie, Xiangyang Ji, Qilin Sun
The paper introduces a new HDR video reconstruction framework that uses a double-stream registration approach combined with pyramid fusion. It processes three consecutive frames by computing optical flow relative to the central frame and applying a midpoint displacement strategy to address severe overexposure. The resulting radiance and low‑dynamic‑range images are merged in a pyramid fusion stage to produce the final HDR output, and experiments show the method outperforms existing state‑of‑the‑art techniques.
By Onofre Martorell, Ivan Pereira-S\'anchez, Antoni Fuentes, Antoni Buades
arXiv:2607. 17611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-exposure fusion (MEF) expands the luminance range beyond what a single exposure can capture.
By Sangmin Han, Jinho Kim, Jinwoo Kim, Dongyoung Kim, Seon Joo Kim