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A collection of HDR imaging papers.

Paper List | High Dynamic Range Imaging

A collection of HDR imaging papers. (Updating)

Contents

• Papers
  • Multi-Frame HDRI
  • Single-Frame HDRI
  • HDRTV
  • HDR Video
  • Tone Mapping
  • Traditional HDRI
  • Other
• Challenges
• Datasets
  • HDR Image Datasets
  • HDR Video Datasets

HDR Papers

Multi-Frame HDRI

Title	Paper	Code	Dataset	Key Words
HDRFlow: Real-Time HDR Video Reconstruction with Large Motions	CVPR-2024	HDRFlow
Self-Supervised High Dynamic Range Imaging with Multi-Exposure Images in Dynamic Scenes	ICLR-2024	selfHDR		Few shot
Joint Denoising and Fusion with Short- and Long-exposure Raw Pairs	arxiv-2023
Alignment-free HDR Deghosting with Semantics Consistent Transformer	ICCV-2023	SCTNet	ICCV23	New dataset
Towards High-quality HDR Deghosting with Conditional Diffusion Models	TCSVT-2023
A Unified HDR Imaging Method with Pixel and Patch Level	CVPR-2023
HDR Imaging with Spatially Varying Signal-to-Noise Ratios	CVPR-2023
SMAE: Few-shot Learning for HDR Deghosting with Saturation-Aware Masked Autoencoders	CVPR-2023		Kalantari, Hu	Few shot HDR
Joint HDR Denoising and Fusion: A Real-World Mobile HDR Image Dataset	CVPR-2023	Joint-HDRDN	Mobile-HDR	New mobile HDR dataset, Transformer-based model
Improving Dynamic HDR Imaging with Fusion Transformer	AAAI-2023
Robust Real-world Image Enhancement Based on Multi-Exposure LDR Images	WACV-2023		Kalantari&Various	Cost volumn
SJ-HD2R: Selective Joint High Dynamic Range and Denoising Imaging for Dynamic Scenes	arxiv-2022
FlexHDR: Modelling Alignment and Exposure Uncertainties for Flexible HDR Imaging	TIP-2022		Kalantari	Arbitrary number of input LDRs, HDR flow
Selective TransHDR: Transformer-based selective HDR Imaging using Ghost Region Mask	ECCV-2022		Kalantari	Ghost Region Mask
Ghost-free High Dynamic Range Imaging with Context-aware Transformer	ECCV-2022	HDR-Transformer	Kalantari	Context-Aware Transformer
A Lightweight Network for High Dynamic Range Imaging	CVPRW-2022		NTIRE	Two branch, Lightweight
Gamma-Enhanced Spatial Attention Network for Efficient High Dynamic Range Imaging	CVPRW-2022		NTIRE	gamma-corrected
Bidirectional Motion Estimation With Cyclic Cost Volume for High Dynamic Range Imaging	CVPRW-2022		NTIRE	Bidirectional Motion Estimation
Attention-Guided Progressive Neural Texture Fusion for High Dynamic Range Image Restoration	TIP-2022		Kalnatari	Two stream, Neural Feature Transfer
Dual-Attention-Guided Network for Ghost-Free High Dynamic Range Imaging	IJCV-2022		Kalantari
High Dynamic Range Imaging of Dynamic Scenes with Saturation Compensation but without Explicit Motion Compensation	WACV-2022	hdri-saturation-compensation	Kalantari	Brightness adjustment, Saturation mask
Drbr-Hdr: Dual-Branch Recursive Band Reconstruction Network for Hdr with Large Motions	SSRN-2022		Kalantari	Dual branch
Learning Regularized Multi-Scale Feature Flow for High Dynamic Range Imaging	arxiv-2022		Kalantari	Multi-scale, Flow
High Dynamic Range Imaging via Gradient-aware Context Aggregation Network	PR-2022		Kalantari	Gradient information
Labeled from Unlabeled: Exploiting Unlabeled Data for Few-shot Deep HDR Deghosting	CVPR-2021	FSHDR	Kalantari	Few shot
HDR-GAN: HDR Image Reconstruction from Multi-Exposed LDR Images with Large Motions	TIP-2021	HDR-GAN	Kalantari	GAN
Ghost-Free Deep High-Dynamic-Range Imaging Using Focus Pixels for Complex Motion Scenes	TIP-2021		own real-world dataset	Utilize focus pixel image
Self-Gated Memory Recurrent Network for Efficient Scalable HDR Deghosting	TCI-2021	HDRRNN	Kalantari + Prabhakar	Recurrent
ADNet: Attention-guided Deformable Convolutional Network for High Dynamic Range Imaging	CVPRW-2021	ADNet	NTIRE	PCD
Progressive and Selective Fusion Network for High Dynamic Range Imaging	MM-2021		Kalantari	Progressive fusion
Merging-ISP: Multi-Exposure High Dynamic Range Image Signal Processing	GCPR-2021		Kalantari	ISP
Towards Accurate HDR Imaging with Learning Generator Constraints	Neurocomputing-2021		Kalantari	LDR-->HDR-->LDR
Hierarchical Fusion for Practical Ghost-free High Dynamic Range Imaging	MM-2021		Kalantari	Hierarchical fusion
Deep HDR Imaging via A Non-Local Network	TIP-2020	NHDRRNet (Keras-implementation), NHDRRNet (PyTorch-re-implementation)	Kalantari	Non-local
Towards Practical and Efficient High-resolution HDR Deghosting with CNN	ECCV-2020		Kalantari	Efficient
Sensor-realistic Synthetic Data Engine for Multi-frame High Dynamic Range Photography	CVPRW-2020	code	synthetic data	synthetic data from game engine
Ghost Removal via Channel Attention in Exposure Fusion	CVIU-2020		Kalantari	Non-local
Pyramid inter-attention for high dynamic range imaging	Sensors-2020		Kalantari	Attention
Attention-Mask Dense Merger (Attendense) Deep HDR for Ghost Removal	ICASSP-2020		Kalantari	Attention Mask
Exposure-Structure Blending Network for High Dynamic Range Imaging of Dynamic Scenes github\	Access-2020	ESBN	Kalantari	Encoder-decoder
Multi-scale Dense Networks for Deep High Dynamic Range Imaging	WACV-2019		Kalantari	Multi-scale, DenseUnet
Attention-guided Network for Ghost-free High Dynamic Range Imaging	CVPR-2019	AHDRNet	Kalantari	Channel Attention
Kernel Prediction Network for Detail-Preserving High Dynamic Range Imaging	APSIPA-ASC-2019		Kalantari	Kernal prediction
Deep Multi-Stage Learning for HDR With Large Object Motions	ICIP-2019		Kalantari	Generate virtual exposures
A Fast, Scalable, and Reliable Deghosting Method for Extreme Exposure Fusion	ICCP-2019	Deep Deghosting HDR	Prabhakar	Arbitrary number of inputs
Deep High Dynamic Range Imaging with Large Foreground Motions	ECCV-2018	DeepHDR	Kalantari	U-Net
Deep HDR Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes	ICIVC 2018		Kalantari+own	FlowNet2.0
Deep high dynamic range imaging of dynamic scenes	SIGGRAPH-2017	Kalantari (Official MATLAB implementation), TensorFlow implementation	Kalantari	Fisrt deep multi-frame HDRI

Single-Frame HDRI

Title	Paper	Code	Dataset	Key Words
RawHDR: High Dynamic Range Image Reconstruction from a Single Raw Image	ICCV-2023		RawHDR
LHDR: HDR Reconstruction for Legacy Content using a Lightweight DNN	ACCV-2022	/
Ultra-High-Definition Image HDR Reconstruction via Collaborative Bilateral Learning	ICCV-2021
A Two-stage Deep Network for High Dynamic Range Image Reconstruction	CVPRW-2021	code	NTIRE
Single Image HDR Reconstruction Using a CNN with Masked Features and Perceptual Loss	SIGGRAPH 2020	HDRCNN

HDRTV

Title	Paper	Code	Dataset	Key Words
Learning a Practical SDR-to-HDRTV Up-conversion using New Dataset and Degradation Models	CVPR-2023	HDRTVDM

HDR Video

Title	Paper	Code	Dataset	Key Words
Towards Real-World HDR Video Reconstruction: A Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset and A Two-Stage Alignment Network	[CVPR-2024]	Real-HDRV
Self-Supervised High Dynamic Range Imaging: What Can Be Learned from a Single 8-bit Video?	TOG-2024
HDR Video Reconstruction with a Large Dynamic Dataset in Raw and sRGB Domavidins	arxiv-2023	/
LAN-HDR: Luminance-based Alignment Network for High Dynamic Range Video Reconstruction	ICCV-2023	LAN-HDR
Learning Event Guided High Dynamic Range Video Reconstruction	CVPR-2023	HDRev
HDR Video Reconstruction: A Coarse-to-fine Network and A Real-world Benchmark Dataset	ICCV-2021	DeepHDRVideo		Coarse to fine, real world dataset
Deep HDR Video from Sequences with Alternating Exposures	Eurographics-2019			First DL HDR Video
Creating cinematic wide gamut HDR-video for the evaluation of tone mapping operators and HDR-displays	Digital photography-2014	Porject	HDM-HDR-2014	HDR video data

Tone Mapping

Title	Paper	Code	Dataset	Key Words
Unsupervised HDR Image and Video Tone Mapping via Contrastive Learning	TCSVT-2023	UnCLTMO	UVTM

Traditional HDRI

Title	Paper	Code	Dataset	Key Words
Single Image HDR Reconstruction Using a CNN with Masked Features and Perceptual Loss	TPAMI 2015
HDR Deghosting: How to deal with saturation?	CVPR 2013
Robust patch-based HDR reconstruction of dynamic scenes	TOG 2012	Code

Other

Title	Paper	Code	Dataset	Key Words
Unsupervised Optical Flow Estimation for Differently Exposed Images in LDR Domain	TCSVT-2023	LDRFlow
Polarization Guided HDR Reconstruction via Pixel-Wise Depolarization	TIP-2023
1000 FPS HDR Video with a Spike-RGB Hybrid Camera	CVPR-2023
Hybrid High Dynamic Range Imaging fusing Neuromorphic and Conventional Images	TPAMI-2023	NeurImg-HDR
Text2Light: Zero-Shot Text-Driven HDR Panorama Generation	TOG-2022	Text2Light
HDR-Plenoxels: Self-Calibrating High Dynamic Range Radiance Fields	ECCV-2022	HDR-Plenoxels
How To Cheat With Metrics in Single-Image HDR Reconstruction	ICCV-2021	/
Neuromorphic Camera Guided High Dynamic Range Imaging	CVPR-2020
UnModNet: Learning to Unwrap a Modulo Image for High Dynamic Range Imaging	NIPS-2020

HDR Challenges

Title	Paper	Compeptition	Dataset
NTIRE 2022 Challenge on High Dynamic Range Imaging : Methods and Results	CVPRW-2022	Competition	NTIRE
NTIRE 2021 Challenge on High Dynamic Range Imaging: Dataset, Methods and Results	CVPRW-2021	Competition	NTIRE

HDR Datasets

HDR Image Datasets

Dataset	Amount	Data type	GT	Resolution	Details
Mobile-HDR	115 dynamic+136 static	Real LDR + bracketing HDR	Yes	4K	shot by mobile phones, daytime+nighttime
NTIRE-HDR	1500 (training) + 60 (validation) + 201 (testing)	Real HDR + synthetic LDR	Yes	1900 x 1060	29 scenes
Kalantari et al.	74 (training) + 15 (testing)	Real LDR + bracketing HDR	Yes	1500 x 1000	Multi-exposure, dynamic scenes
Sen et al.	8 (testing only)	Real	No	1350 x 900	Multi-exposure, dynamic scenes, collected from HDR videos [1]
Tursen et al.	16 (testing only)	Real	No	1024 x 682	Multi-exposure, indoor and out door scenes
Prabhakar et al.	466 (training) + 116 (testing)	Real	Yes	1-4 Megapixels	Dynamic scenes of 3-7 images (Download permission denied)

HDR Video Datasets

Reference

[1]wang, l., & yoon, k. j. (2021). deep learning for hdr imaging: state-of-the-art and future trends. ieee transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence.

[2] Froehlich, J., Grandinetti, S., Eberhardt, B., Walter, S., Schilling, A., & Brendel, H. (2014, March). Creating cinematic wide gamut HDR-video for the evaluation of tone mapping operators and HDR-displays. In Digital photography X (Vol. 9023, pp. 279-288). SPIE.

Interesting HDR Reading Materials

• High Dynamic Range Imaging (second edition)

See other useful HDR paperlists

• https://github.com/vinthony/awesome-deep-hdr
• https://github.com/ytZhang99/Awesome-HDR
• https://github.com/lcybuzz/Low-Level-Vision-Paper-Record/blob/master/HDR.md