Nighttime Flare Removal

Nighttime flare removal aims to digitally eliminate lens flares—bright artifacts caused by light reflections within camera lenses—from images captured at night, improving image quality and downstream computer vision tasks. Recent research focuses on developing robust deep learning models trained on increasingly diverse and realistic datasets, including both synthetic and real-world nighttime images, often incorporating annotations of light sources and flare types to improve model accuracy. These advancements are crucial for enhancing the quality of nighttime photography and enabling more reliable performance of computer vision algorithms in low-light conditions.