This paper reviews the second AIM realistic bokeh effect rendering challenge and provides
the description of the proposed solutions and results. The participating teams were solving a …

This paper reviews the first AIM challenge on bokeh effect synthesis with the focus on
proposed solutions and results. The participating teams were solving a real-world image-to …

Bokeh is an important artistic effect used to highlight the main object of interest on the photo
by blurring all out-of-focus areas. While DSLR and system camera lenses can render this …

Image inpainting methods have shown significant improvements by using deep neural
networks recently. However, many of these techniques often create distorted structures or …

Smartphone cameras today are increasingly approaching the versatility and quality of
professional cameras through a combination of hardware and software advancements …

Image relighting is attracting increasing interest due to its various applications. From a
research perspective, image relighting can be exploited to conduct both image …

Many advancements of mobile cameras aim to reach the visual quality of professional DSLR
cameras. Great progress was shown over the last years in optimizing the sharp regions of an …

Effectively detecting road objects in various environments would significantly improve
driving safety for autonomous vehicles. However, small objects, low illumination, and blurred …

Bokeh rendering is a technique used to take pictures with out-of-focus areas to highlight
regions of interest. Due to limitations in hardware and shooting condition, rendering a bokeh …

Abstract The Bokeh Effect is one of the most desirable effects in photography for rendering
artistic and aesthetic photos. Usually, it requires a DSLR camera with different aperture and …