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Paper List | High Dynamic Range Imaging

A collection of HDR imaging papers. (Updating)

Multi-Frame HDRI

Title Paper Code Dataset Key Words
Efficient HDR Reconstruction From Real-World Raw Images arxiv-2023
RawHDR: High Dynamic Range Image Reconstruction from a Single Raw Image ICCV-2023 RawHDR
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
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
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
HDR Video Reconstruction with a Large Dynamic Dataset in Raw and sRGB Domains arxiv-2023 /
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

Traditional Multi-frame HDR Imaging

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

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

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)

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.

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