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
We propose DOME-HDR, a dual-output multi-exposure HDR reconstruction framework that jointly produces a perceptually balanced SDR image and a consistent HDR image via gain map inverse tone mapping. Given three bracketed LDR inputs, DOME-HDR first synthesizes a base SDR using a LoRA-adapted latent diffusion model.
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: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
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: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
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
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 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
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:2609.28439v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The adoption of CMOS sensors in mobile photography is frequently compromised by the rolling shutter (RS) effect, which introduces geometric distortions...
By Xiang Ji, Guixu Lin, Jiancheng Zhao, Zhengwei Yin, Yinqiang Zheng
arXiv:2608.20515v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative video compression can recover rich visual details at low bitrates, but simultaneously achieving high temporal consistency and low inference...
By Wenzhuo Ma, Zhenzhong Chen