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Deep Recursive HDRI: Inverse Tone Mapping using Generative Adversarial Networks

1 Sep 2018ECCV 2018 9archive 2025-07-28

Siyeong Lee, Gwon Hwan An, Suk-Ju Kang

High dynamic range images contain luminance information of the physical world and provide more realistic experience than conventional low dynamic range images. Because most images have a low dynamic range, recovering the lost dynamic range from a single low dynamic range image is still prevalent. We propose a novel method for restoring the lost dynamic range from a single low dynamic range image through a deep neural network. The proposed method is the first framework to create high dynamic range images based on the estimated multi-exposure stack using the conditional generative adversarial network structure. In this architecture, we train the network by setting an objective function that is a combination of L1 loss and generative adversarial network loss. In addition, this architecture has a simplified structure than the existing networks. In the experimental results, the proposed network generated a multi-exposure stack consisting of realistic images with varying exposure values while avoiding artifacts on public benchmarks, compared with the existing methods. In addition, both the multi-exposure stacks and high dynamic range images estimated by the proposed method are significantly similar to the ground truth than other state-of-the-art algorithms.

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Inverse-Tone-MappingTone Mappinginverse tone mapping

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Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
inverse tone mapping VDS dataset: Multi exposure stack-based inverse tone mapping Deep Recursive HDRI HDR-VDP-2 57.28 #3 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
inverse tone mapping VDS dataset: Multi exposure stack-based inverse tone mapping Deep Recursive HDRI HDR-VDP-3 8.48 #3 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
inverse tone mapping VDS dataset: Multi exposure stack-based inverse tone mapping Deep Recursive HDRI Kim and Kautz TMO-PSNR 28.02 #3 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
inverse tone mapping VDS dataset: Multi exposure stack-based inverse tone mapping Deep Recursive HDRI PU21-PSNR 25.88 #3 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
inverse tone mapping VDS dataset: Multi exposure stack-based inverse tone mapping Deep Recursive HDRI PU21-SSIM 0.8874 #3 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
inverse tone mapping VDS dataset: Multi exposure stack-based inverse tone mapping Deep Recursive HDRI Reinhard'TMO-PSNR 32.94 #3 of 9 Archive leaderboard report

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