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Flare-Free Vision: Empowering Uformer with Depth Insights

1 Apr 2024ICASSP 2024 4archive 2025-07-28

Yousef Kotp, Marwan Torki

Image flare is a common problem that occurs when a camera lens is pointed at a strong light source. It can manifest as ghosting, blooming, or other artifacts that can degrade the image quality. We propose a novel deep learning approach for flare removal that uses a combination of depth estimation and image restoration. We use a Dense Vision Transformer to estimate the depth of the scene. This depth map is then concatenated to the input image, which is then fed into a Uformer, a general U-shaped transformer for image restoration. Our proposed method demonstrates state-of-the-art performance on the Flare7K++ test dataset, demonstrating its effectiveness in removing flare artifacts from images. Our approach also demonstrates robustness and generalization to real-world images with various types of flare. We believe that our work opens up new possibilities for using depth information for image restoration. The code is available on GitHub

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