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LightsOut: Diffusion-based Outpainting for Enhanced Lens Flare Removal

arXiv 2510.15868 ↗First posted 17 Oct 2025cs.CVcited by 9

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Abstract (arXiv)

Lens flare significantly degrades image quality, impacting critical computer vision tasks like object detection and autonomous driving. Recent Single Image Flare Removal (SIFR) methods perform poorly when off-frame light sources are incomplete or absent. We propose LightsOut, a diffusion-based outpainting framework tailored to enhance SIFR by reconstructing off-frame light sources. Our method leverages a multitask regression module and LoRA fine-tuned diffusion model to ensure realistic and physically consistent outpainting results. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate LightsOut consistently boosts the performance of existing SIFR methods across challenging scenarios without additional retraining, serving as a universally applicable plug-and-play preprocessing solution. Project page: https://ray-1026.github.io/lightsout/

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Citing papers per year: 2025: 4; 2026: 5.

9 papers.

  1. 2025Stream-DiffVSR: Low-Latency Streamable Video Super-Resolution via Auto-Regressive Diffusioncited by 7
  2. 2025GaMO: Geometry-aware Multi-view Diffusion Outpainting for Sparse-View 3D Reconstructioncited by 4
  3. 2025Generative Refocusing: Flexible Defocus Control from a Single Imagecited by 3
  4. 2025Learning Latent Transmission and Glare Maps for Lens Veiling Glare Removalcited by 2
  5. 2026M3DDM+: An improved video outpainting by a modified masking strategycited by 2
  6. 2026HDR Reconstruction Boosting with Training-Free and Exposure-Consistent Diffusioncited by 0
  7. 2026Reflection Separation from a Single Image via Joint Latent Diffusioncited by 0
  8. 2026High-Resolution Artwork Outpainting with Global Blueprint Guidance and Layout Controlcited by 0
  9. 2026Lens Flare Removal and Reconstructioncited by 0

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