LRHDR: Learning Representation-enhanced HDR Video Reconstruction

Chenzhuo Liao, Xin Chen, Bingchen Li, Yu Meng, Tao Yue, Xuemei Hu; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026, pp. 41584-41593

Reconstructing High Dynamic Range (HDR) video from alternately exposed Low Dynamic Range (LDR) frames is challenged by large motion, exposure-induced photometric inconsistency, and information loss in saturated or under-exposed regions. Prior HDR video pipelines typically follow an alignment-reconstruction paradigm, which is limited by the precision of alignment and the performance of the fusion module. We propose a new reconstruction framework called Learning Representation-enhanced HDR Video Reconstruction (LRHDR), which is built around two novel components: an Amalgamated Cross-exposure Consistent Representation (ACCR) network and an Adaptive Pixel-wise Sparse Weighted Fusion (APSWF). The ACCR includes an Exposure-aware Interleaved Context (EIC) encoder and a Representation Mapper (RM). The EIC couples a large-field path with a high-fidelity sub-pixel path and an exposure gate to produce exposure-aware features. The RM avoids explicit cross-exposure alignment by mapping features from different exposures into a unified representation via per-pixel, per-channel linear modulation and decoding into the calibrated linear HDR domain. The APSWF treats fusion as pixel-wise candidate selection, producing sparse weighted masks to form a normalized fusion in the linear HDR domain, thereby suppressing artifacts. Extensive experiments on standard benchmarks demonstrate that our LRHDR outperforms previous methods.