HDR Imaging

HDR: High Dynamic Range

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Overview

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging represents a wider range of scene luminance than a standard image can encode, supporting faithful viewing, measurement, and vision in difficult lighting. Common approaches combine bracketed exposures through alignment and deghosting, infer missing radiance from a single low-dynamic-range image using inverse tone mapping or diffusion priors, or use event, raw, and spatially varying exposure sensors. Work also extends to HDR video and 3D radiance fields, where motion, view consistency, and lighting estimation matter, with quality assessed through radiometric, perceptual, and task-specific benchmarks. A central challenge is recovering clipped or noisy detail without inventing content, while preserving temporal consistency and keeping capture and inference efficient.

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  1. Physics Guided Diffusion Model Based Exposure Interpolation for High Dynamic Range Imaging

    Oct 27, 2026Zhengguo Li, Chaobing ZhengHDR ImagingPhysics-Informed Diffusion Models

    Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing, A*STAR, Singapore, 138632 · the school of Information Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China

  2. Neural Block-wise Auto-exposure for Single-Shot High Dynamic Range Imaging

    Oct 9, 2026Zhengguo Li, Chaobing Zheng, Wei WangHDR ImagingComputational Imaging

    Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing (IAIC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, 138632 · the school of Information Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China · Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)

  3. ExpandDiff: Dynamic Range Expanding Diffusion for Single-Image HDR Reconstruction

    Sep 30, 2026Mehmet Emre Andıran, Zhuoqian Yang, Liying Lu +2HDR ImagingPixel-Space Diffusion Models

    School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland

  4. Pixel-wise Exposure for Highly Robust In-Vehicle Remote-PPG

    Sep 29, 2026Jieying Wang, Xinqi Cai, Caifeng Shan +1Remote PhotoplethysmographyImage Enhancement

    College of Computer Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China · Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518000, China · State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology and School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China

  5. Double-stream registration with pyramid fusion for HDR video with alternating exposures

    Sep 25, 2026Onofre Martorell, Ivan Pereira-Sánchez, Antoni Fuentes +1HDR Video ReconstructionHDR Imaging

    Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Cra. de Valldemossa km 7.5, Palma, 07122, Illes Balears, Spain

  6. SEE Challenge 2026: Event-Guided Brightness Adjustment Across a Broad Illumination Range

    Sep 24, 2026Yunfan Lu, Mingchao Xu, Hanyu Zhou +9Image EnhancementHDR Imaging

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · National University of Singapore · Xidian University +5

  7. HaRP: High Dynamic Range Photosequencing through Dual Reversed Shutter Scanning

    Sep 23, 2026Xiang Ji, Guixu Lin, Jiancheng Zhao +2HDR ImagingHDR Video Reconstruction

    Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  8. High Dynamic Range Video Reconstruction from Single-Exposure Raw Sequences

    Sep 23, 2026Tao Zhang, Peixian Su, Xingyu Gao +6HDR ImagingHDR Video Reconstruction

    School of Communication Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China, and also with Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Low Altitude Ubiquitous Networking Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China · Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, and also with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China +1

  9. RawSLAM: Online HDR Gaussian SLAM from Linear Radiance

    Sep 17, 2026Marina Orozco González, Luis Merino3D Gaussian Splatting3DGS SLAM

  10. Recurrent Dynamic Range Extension

    Sep 11, 2026Sebastian Dille, Keru Fu, S. Mahdi H. Miangoleh +1HDR ImagingImage Reconstruction

    Computational Photography Lab., Simon Fraser University, Canada

  11. Real-Time Scene-Adaptive Tone Mapping for High-Dynamic Range Object Detection

    Aug 31, 2026Gongzhe Li, Linwei Qiu, Peibei Cao +3Image EnhancementHDR Imaging

    School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China · Tianmushan Laboratory, Beihang University, Hangzhou, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China +2

  12. Multi-exposure HDR Imaging: A Review of Pixel-level and Feature-level Reconstruction Methods

    Aug 25, 2026Qian Tao, Wei Wang, Chaobing Zheng +1Multi-Exposure Image FusionHDR Imaging

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Real-Time Industrial System, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China · School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China · Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing, A*STAR, Singapore 138632

  13. Depth-guided Multi-view Exposure Bracketing for HDR Robot Vision

    Aug 17, 2026Jinnyeong Kim, Juhyung Choi, Woohyeok Kim +2HDR ImagingRobotic Perception

    POSTECH

  14. Dual-Output Multi-Exposure HDR Reconstruction via SDR Fusion and Gain Map Inverse Tone Mapping

    Aug 6, 2026Jinho Kim, Jinwoo Kim, Seon Joo KimHDR ImagingMulti-Exposure Image Fusion

    Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

  15. Coarse-to-fine Framework for Generative MEF via Implicit Neural Representation

    Jul 20, 2026Sangmin Han, Jinho Kim, Jinwoo Kim +2Multi-Source Image FusionImage Enhancement

    Yonsei University · AI Lab, CTO Division, LG Electronics

  16. Bio-SFT: Asymmetric Cortical Guidance and Retinal Adaptation for Robust HDR Reconstruction

    Jul 20, 2026Tingyu Cheng, Ting Zhang, Chongyi Li +2Spiking TransformersImage Enhancement

    Fujian Key Laboratory of Intelligent Processing and Wireless Transmission of Media Information, College of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fujian 350108, China · School of Computer Science, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China · School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

  17. Video Generation Models Are Inherent Lighting Estimators

    Jul 6, 2026Ziqi Cai, Shuchen Weng, Kaiqi Liu +5Video Diffusion ModelsHDR Imaging

    State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing and National Engineering Research Center of Visual Technology, School of Computer Science, Peking University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University +1

  18. ExpoMotion: A Large-Scale Benchmark and A Householder Projection Network for Multi-Exposure Fusion

    Jul 3, 2026Yao Liu, Lishen Qu, Shihao Zhou +6HDR ImagingImage Restoration

    Nankai International Advanced Research Institute (SHENZHEN·FUTIAN) · College of Computer Science, Nankai University · OPPO Research Institute +2

  19. HDRAgent: An Agentic Framework for Multi-Exposure HDR Imaging

    Jun 8, 2026Weiyu Zhou, Tao Hu, Yijian Wang +3Image EnhancementHDR Imaging

    School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China · Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Camera Group, DJI, Shenzhen, China +1

  20. LUCID: Learning Unified Control for Image Deflaring and Exposure Mastery in Nighttime Photography

    Jun 5, 2026Tingyu Yang, Yuan Cheng, Xiaoyun YuanDiffusion Models for Image RestorationImage Enhancement

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  21. P2GS: Physical Prior-guided Gaussian Splatting for Photometrically Consistent Urban Reconstruction

    May 16, 2026Kota Shimomura, Hidehisa Arai, Tsubasa Takahashi +2Multi-View Consistency3D Gaussian Splatting

    Chubu University1 · Turing Inc.2

  22. Generating HDR Video from SDR Video

    May 14, 2026SaiKiran Tedla, Francesco Banterle, Trevor Canham +6Image EnhancementHDR Imaging

    Sony AI, Japan · York University, Canada · ISTI-CNR, Italy +1

  23. Single-Shot HDR Recovery via a Video Diffusion Prior

    May 12, 2026Chinmay Talegaonkar, Jinshi He, Christopher McKenna +1Image EnhancementHDR Imaging

    University of California San Diego · Creare LLC

  24. LatentHDR: Decoupling Exposure from Diffusion via Conditional Latent-to-Latent Mapping for Text/Image-to-Panoramic HDR

    May 11, 2026Pedram Fekri, WenChen Li, William Chen +1Latent Diffusion ModelsHDR Imaging

    Monks AI Research Lab, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  25. ExpoCM: Exposure-Aware One-Step Generative Single-Image HDR Reconstruction

    May 4, 2026Aoyu Liu, Zhen Liu, Ziyi Wang +3Image EnhancementHDR Imaging

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  26. Lucky High Dynamic Range Smartphone Imaging

    Apr 21, 2026Baiang Li, Ruyu Yan, Ethan Tseng +4Image EnhancementHDR Imaging

    Princeton University, USA · Adobe, USA · Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

  27. High-Speed Full-Color HDR Imaging via Unwrapping Modulo-Encoded Spike Streams

    Apr 16, 2026Chu Zhou, Siqi Yang, Kailong Zhang +4Image EnhancementHDR Imaging

    Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan · Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, and the National Engineering Research Center of Visual Technology, School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100080, China · Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System Laboratory, School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China +1

  28. HDR Video Generation via Latent Alignment with Logarithmic Encoding

    Apr 13, 2026Naomi Ken Korem, Mohamed Oumoumad, Omer Hagage +8HDR Imaging

    Lightricks · Gear Productions · Tel Aviv University

  29. Dual-Exposure Imaging with Events

    Apr 11, 2026Mingyuan Lin, Hongyi Liu, Chu He +3Low-Light Image EnhancementHDR Imaging

    School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

  30. NTIRE 2026 The 3rd Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) Challenge: Multi-Exposure Image Fusion in Dynamic Scenes (Track 2)

    Apr 10, 2026Lishen Qu, Yao Liu, Jie Liang +32Multi-Exposure Image FusionHDR Imaging