The-State-of-the-Art-in-HDR-Deghosting

Collection of classical and popular multi-exposure image fusion works. Most of works have codes available.

overview

Method

Multi-exposure images fusion

Recovering High Dynamic Range Radiance Maps from Photographs (PE Debevec, J Malik. 1997) [web]
Exposure Fusion (T Mertens, J Kautz, F Van Reeth. 2009) [web]

Classical deghost methods

Artifact-free High Dynamic Range Imaging (O Gallo, N Gelfandz, et al. 2009) [web]
Motion-Blur-Free Exposure Fusion (M Tico, N Gelfand, K Pulli. 2010)
Ghost-Free High Dynamic Range Imaging (YS Heo, KM Lee, et al. 2010) [web]
Super High Dynamic Range Imaging (T Hayami, M Tanaka, et al. 2014) [web]
Robust Multi-Exposure Image Fusion A Structural Patch Decomposition Approach (K Ma, H Li, et al. 2017) [web]
Fast Multi-Scale Structural Patch Decomposition for Multi-Exposure Image Fusion (H Li, K Ma, et al. 2020) [web]

Optical-flow-based

Freehand HDR Imaging of Moving Scenes with Simultaneous Resolution Enhancement (H Zimmer, A Bruhn, J Weickert. 2011) [web]

PatchMatch-Based

Robust Patch-Based HDR Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes (P Sen, NK Kalantari, et al. 2012) [web]
HDR Deghosting How to deal with Saturation (J Hu, O Gallo, et al. 2013) [web]
Hybrid Patching for a Sequence of Differently Exposed Images With Moving Objects (J Zheng, Z Li, et al. 2013)

Rank Minimization

Ghost-Free High Dynamic Range Imaging via Rank Minimization (C Lee, Y Li, et al. 2014) [web]
Robust High Dynamic Range Imaging by Rank Minimization (TH Oh, JY Lee, et al. 2015) [web]

Deep Learning

Deep High Dynamic Range Imaging of Dynamic Scenes (NK Kalantari, R Ramamoorthi. 2017) [web]
End-to-End Deep HDR Imaging with Large Foreground Motions (S Wu, J Xu, et al. 2017) (Deep High Dynamic Range Imaging with Large Foreground Motions 2018) [web]
Attention-guided Network for Ghost-free High Dynamic Range Imaging (Q Yan, D Gong, et al. 2018) [web]
Towards Practical and Efficient High-Resolution HDR Deghosting with CNN (K. Ram Prabhakar, Susmit Agrawal, et al. 2020) [web]
NTIRE 2021 Challenge on High Dynamic Range Imaging: Dataset, Methods and Results [web]

Google Project

(HDR+) Burst photography for high dynamic range and low-light imaging on mobile cameras (SW Hasinoff, D Sharlet, et al. 2016) [web]
(Night sight) Handheld Mobile Photography in Very Low Light (O Liba, K Murthy, et al. 2019) [web]

Survey and Evaluate

Metric

HDR-VDP-2: A calibrated visual metric for visibility and quality predictions in all luminance conditions (R Mantiuk, KJ Kim, et al. 2011) [web]
An Objective Deghosting Quality Metric for HDR Images (OT Tursun, AO Akyüz, et al. 2016) [web]

Survey

The State of the Art in HDR Deghosting A Survey and Evaluation (OT Tursun, AO Akyüz, et al. 2015)

Benchmark

NTIRE 2021 Challenge on High Dynamic Range Imaging: https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/cvl/ntire21/