# HDRTransDC: High Dynamic Range Image Reconstruction with Transformer Deformation Convolution

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06831 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.06831/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 5 of its 24 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 11 Mar 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [Attention-guided Network for Ghost-free High Dynamic Range Imaging](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.10293/) (2019)
- [Deep High Dynamic Range Imaging with Large Foreground Motions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.08937/) (2017)
- [HDR-GAN: HDR Image Reconstruction from Multi-Exposed LDR Images with Large Motions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.01628/) (2020)
- [Ghost-free High Dynamic Range Imaging with Context-aware Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.05114/) (2022)
- [Attention-Guided Progressive Neural Texture Fusion for High Dynamic Range Image Restoration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.06211/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [A Cycle Ride to HDR: Semantics Aware Self-Supervised Framework for Unpaired LDR-to-HDR Image Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.15068/) (2024)
- [Deep Lightweight Unrolled Network for High Dynamic Range Modulo Imaging](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.12526/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging aims to generate an artifact-free HDR image with realistic details by fusing multi-exposure Low Dynamic Range (LDR) images. Caused by large motion and severe under-/over-exposure among input LDR images, HDR imaging suffers from ghosting artifacts and fusion distortions. To address these critical issues, we propose an HDR Transformer Deformation Convolution (HDRTransDC) network to generate high-quality HDR images, which consists of the Transformer Deformable Convolution Alignment Module (TDCAM) and the Dynamic Weight Fusion Block (DWFB). To solve the ghosting artifacts, the proposed TDCAM extracts long-distance content similar to the reference feature in the entire non-reference features, which can accurately remove misalignment and fill the content occluded by moving objects. For the purpose of eliminating fusion distortions, we propose DWFB to spatially adaptively select useful information across frames to effectively fuse multi-exposed features. Extensive experiments show that our method quantitatively and qualitatively achieves state-of-the-art performance.
