Flare Removal

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15 shown of 15 papers with code (24 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• For Overall Nighttime Visibility: Integrate Irregular Glow Removal With Glow-Aware Enhancement
  23 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  In the pursuit of Overall Nighttime Visibility Enhancement (ONVE), we propose a physical model guided framework ONVE to derive a Nighttime Imaging Model with Near-Field Light Sources (NIM-NLS), whose APSF prior…
• Difflare: Removing Image Lens Flare with Latent Diffusion Model
  20 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  To leverage the generative prior learned by Pre-Trained Diffusion Models (PTDM), we introduce a trainable Structural Guidance Injection Module (SGIM) aimed at guiding the restoration process with PTDM.
• MFDNet: Multi-Frequency Deflare Network for Efficient Nighttime Flare Removal
  26 Jun 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 6 of 7 samples · 1 unverified · 7 pointer-only (licence)
  The low-frequency part typically contains illumination information, while the high-frequency part contains detailed content information.
• MIPI 2024 Challenge on Demosaic for HybridEVS Camera: Methods and Results
  8 May 2024 1 repository listed
  The increasing demand for computational photography and imaging on mobile platforms has led to the widespread development and integration of advanced image sensors with novel algorithms in camera systems.
• Flare-Free Vision: Empowering Uformer with Depth Insights
  1 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  We propose a novel deep learning approach for flare removal that uses a combination of depth estimation and image restoration.
• Toward Flare-Free Images: A Survey
  22 Oct 2023 1 repository listed
  Lens flare is a common image artifact that can significantly degrade image quality and affect the performance of computer vision systems due to a strong light source pointing at the camera.
• Improving Lens Flare Removal with General Purpose Pipeline and Multiple Light Sources Recovery
  31 Aug 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 9 of 12 samples · 3 unverified · 12 pointer-only (licence)
  In this paper, we propose a solution to improve the performance of lens flare removal by revisiting the ISP and remodeling the principle of automatic exposure in the synthesis pipeline and design a more reliable light…
• From Generation to Suppression: Towards Effective Irregular Glow Removal for Nighttime Visibility Enhancement
  31 Jul 2023 1 repository listed
  Most existing Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) methods are primarily designed to improve brightness in dark regions, which suffer from severe degradation in nighttime images.
• Flare7K++: Mixing Synthetic and Real Datasets for Nighttime Flare Removal and Beyond
  7 Jun 2023 1 repository listed
  To address this issue, we additionally provide the annotations of light sources in Flare7K++ and propose a new end-to-end pipeline to preserve the light source while removing lens flares.
• Nighttime Smartphone Reflective Flare Removal Using Optical Center Symmetry Prior
  27 Mar 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 2 samples · 1 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  With the dataset, neural networks can be trained to remove the reflective flares effectively.
• Improving Lens Flare Removal with General-Purpose Pipeline and Multiple Light Sources Recovery
  1 Jan 2023 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we propose a solution to improve the performance of lens flare removal by revisiting the ISP and remodeling the principle of automatic exposure in the synthesis pipeline and design a more reliable light…
• Flare7K: A Phenomenological Nighttime Flare Removal Dataset
  12 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we introduce, Flare7K, the first nighttime flare removal dataset, which is generated based on the observation and statistics of real-world nighttime lens flares.
• Automatic Flare Spot Artifact Detection and Removal in Photographs
  7 Mar 2021 1 repository listed
  Flare spot is one type of flare artifact caused by a number of conditions, frequently provoked by one or more high-luminance sources within or close to the camera field of view.
• Light Source Guided Single-Image Flare Removal From Unpaired Data
  1 Jan 2021 1 repository listed
  In particular, we first detect the light source regions and the flare regions separately, and then remove the flare artifacts based on the light source aware guidance.
• How to Train Neural Networks for Flare Removal
  25 Nov 2020 1 repository listed
  When a camera is pointed at a strong light source, the resulting photograph may contain lens flare artifacts.

Syntology lines on 3 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.