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LUCID: Learning Unified Control for Image Deflaring and Exposure Mastery in Nighttime Photography

2026-06-05 · Tingyu Yang, Yuan Cheng, Xiaoyun Yuan arxiv

Photography is the art of painting with light, yet nighttime scenes are shaped by competing degradations: intense flares obscure scene structure, while photon-limited regions collapse into noise. Conventional approaches address these factors in isolation, overlooking the fact that these degradations are fundamentally entangled. To bridge this gap, we introduce LUCID, a unified framework that reframes nighttime restoration as a continuous and controllable process rather than a fixed correction. We decompose nighttime restoration into two cooperative components: a flare disentanglement module that lifts the 'curtain' of optical artifacts to provide reliable structural guidance, and a diffusion-driven module that leverages generative priors to reconstruct clean and well-exposed imagery. Crucially, LUCID introduces explicit controllability through a novel four-mode training strategy, enabling users to steer the restoration process via classifier-free guidance (CFG) and allowing selective control over light sources and their associated flare and ghosting artifacts, while also supporting high dynamic range (HDR) reconstruction through continuous exposure control. Extensive experiments demonstrate that LUCID consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods across diverse real-world nighttime scenarios.

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