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Single-Image HDR Reconstruction by Learning to Reverse the Camera Pipeline

arXiv 2004.01179 ↗First posted 2 Apr 2020eess.IV cs.CVcited by 131

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Recovering a high dynamic range (HDR) image from a single low dynamic range (LDR) input image is challenging due to missing details in under-/over-exposed regions caused by quantization and saturation of camera sensors. In contrast to existing learning-based methods, our core idea is to incorporate the domain knowledge of the LDR image formation pipeline into our model. We model the HDRto-LDR image formation pipeline as the (1) dynamic range clipping, (2) non-linear mapping from a camera response function, and (3) quantization. We then propose to learn three specialized CNNs to reverse these steps. By decomposing the problem into specific sub-tasks, we impose effective physical constraints to facilitate the training of individual sub-networks. Finally, we jointly fine-tune the entire model end-to-end to reduce error accumulation. With extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments on diverse image datasets, we demonstrate that the proposed method performs favorably against state-of-the-art single-image HDR reconstruction algorithms.

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  5. 2021ADNet: Attention-guided Deformable Convolutional Network for High Dynamic Range Imagingcited by 51
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  11. 2022Multi-Bracket High Dynamic Range Imaging with Event Camerascited by 37
  12. 2021NTIRE 2021 Challenge on High Dynamic Range Imaging: Dataset, Methods and Resultscited by 36
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  11. 2022NightLab: A Dual-level Architecture with Hardness Detection for Segmentation at Nightcited by 21
  12. 2022GlowGAN: Unsupervised Learning of HDR Images from LDR Images in the Wildcited by 21
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  14. 2024IRIS: Inverse Rendering of Indoor Scenes from Low Dynamic Range Imagescited by 19
  15. 2021Luminance Attentive Networks for HDR Image and Panorama Reconstructioncited by 18
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  17. 2022Perceptual Image Enhancement for Smartphone Real-Time Applicationscited by 18
  18. 2023Raw Image Reconstruction with Learned Compact Metadatacited by 18
  19. 2023LAN-HDR: Luminance-based Alignment Network for High Dynamic Range Video Reconstructioncited by 18
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  21. 2024Bracket Diffusion: HDR Image Generation by Consistent LDR Denoisingcited by 15
  22. 2022MIPI 2022 Challenge on Under-Display Camera Image Restoration: Methods and Resultscited by 14
  23. 2023Beyond the Pixel: a Photometrically Calibrated HDR Dataset for Luminance and Color Predictioncited by 14
  24. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Efficient Burst HDR and Restoration: Datasets, Methods, and Resultscited by 14
  25. 2024BlinkVision: A Benchmark for Optical Flow, Scene Flow and Point Tracking Estimation using RGB Frames and Eventscited by 13
  26. 2024Cinematic Gaussians: Real-Time HDR Radiance Fields with Depth of Fieldcited by 12
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  28. 2022Casual Indoor HDR Radiance Capture from Omnidirectional Imagescited by 11
  29. 2022UDC-UNet: Under-Display Camera Image Restoration via U-Shape Dynamic Networkcited by 11
  30. 2023Learning a Practical SDR-to-HDRTV Up-conversion using New Dataset and Degradation Modelscited by 11
  31. 2023Learning Continuous Exposure Value Representations for Single-Image HDR Reconstructioncited by 11
  32. 2024Intrinsic Single-Image HDR Reconstructioncited by 11
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  34. 2021A Two-stage Deep Network for High Dynamic Range Image Reconstructioncited by 10
  35. 2023Beyond Learned Metadata-based Raw Image Reconstructioncited by 9
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  38. 2025AIM 2025 challenge on Inverse Tone Mapping Report: Methods and Resultscited by 8

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