Semi-LAR: Semi-supervised Contrastive Learning with Linear Attention for Removal of Nighttime Flares

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Autori principali: Zhu, Xiyu, Wang, Wei, Jiang, Kui, Li, Zhengguo
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author Zhu, Xiyu
Wang, Wei
Jiang, Kui
Li, Zhengguo
author_facet Zhu, Xiyu
Wang, Wei
Jiang, Kui
Li, Zhengguo
contents Lens flare removal is challenging due to the large spatial extent of flare artifacts and their entanglement with scene structures, while existing methods heavily rely on large-scale paired data. We propose a semi-supervised flare removal framework that enables stable learning from unlabeled images by jointly addressing pseudo-label reliability and representation discrimination. We propose an adaptive pseudo-label repository that progressively refines pseudo supervision through no-reference quality assessment, momentum-based updates, and invalid label filtering, effectively mitigating error accumulation. Moreover, we propose a flare-aware contrastive loss that explicitly treats flare-contaminated inputs as negatives and performs patch-level contrastive learning, encouraging representations that are discriminative against flare patterns while remaining consistent with reliable pseudo targets. Extensive experiments on multiple flare benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed framework is model-agnostic and consistently improves performance and robustness.
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spellingShingle Semi-LAR: Semi-supervised Contrastive Learning with Linear Attention for Removal of Nighttime Flares
Zhu, Xiyu
Wang, Wei
Jiang, Kui
Li, Zhengguo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Lens flare removal is challenging due to the large spatial extent of flare artifacts and their entanglement with scene structures, while existing methods heavily rely on large-scale paired data. We propose a semi-supervised flare removal framework that enables stable learning from unlabeled images by jointly addressing pseudo-label reliability and representation discrimination. We propose an adaptive pseudo-label repository that progressively refines pseudo supervision through no-reference quality assessment, momentum-based updates, and invalid label filtering, effectively mitigating error accumulation. Moreover, we propose a flare-aware contrastive loss that explicitly treats flare-contaminated inputs as negatives and performs patch-level contrastive learning, encouraging representations that are discriminative against flare patterns while remaining consistent with reliable pseudo targets. Extensive experiments on multiple flare benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed framework is model-agnostic and consistently improves performance and robustness.
title Semi-LAR: Semi-supervised Contrastive Learning with Linear Attention for Removal of Nighttime Flares
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18156