Awesome-Deep-Learning-based-Flare-Removal-Methods

📢Last updated: 2025.10.27

• [01/2026] Update with AAAI2026 papers.
• [10/2025] Update with NeurlPS2025, EAAI papers.
• [09/2025] Update with ACMMM2025, TPAMI papers.

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📚 Table of Contents:

1. Latest Work

2. Survey Papers

3. Datasets

4. Flare Removal

• 4.1. Unsupervised Flare Removal
• 4.2. Self-supervised Flare Removal
• 4.3. Supervised Flare Removal

5. Other Related

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🔥 1. Latest Work

Year	Publication	Title	Paper	Project
2026	AAAI CCF A	SLCFormer: Spectral-Local Context Transformer with Physics-Grounded Flare Synthesis for Nighttime Flare Removal	[paper]
2026	AAAI CCF A	Nighttime Flare Removal via Wavelet-Guided and Gated-Enhanced Spatial-Frequency Fusion Network	[paper]	[code]
2026	AAAI CCF A	CAST-LUT: Tokenizer-Guided HSV Look-Up Tables for Purple Flare Removal	[paper]	[code]
2025	NIPS CCF A	FlareX: A Physics-Informed Dataset for Lens Flare Removal via 2D Synthesis and 3D Rendering	[paper]	[dataset]
2025	ACM MM CCF A	DeflareMamba: Hierarchical Vision Mamba for Contextually Consistent Lens Flare Removal	[paper]	[code]
2025	ICCV CCF A	Removing Out-of-Focus Reflective Flares via Color Alignment	[paper]
2025	ICCV CCF A	LightsOut: Diffusion-based Outpainting for Enhanced Lens Flare Removal	[paper]	[code]
2025	ICCV CCF A	PBFG: A New Physically-Based Dataset and Removal of Lens Flares and Glares	[paper]	[dataset]
2025	ICCVW CCF A	FlareGS: 4D Flare Removal using Gaussian Splatting for Urban Scenes	[paper]
2025	AAAI CCF A	Disentangle Nighttime Lens Flares: Self-supervised Generation-based Lens Flare Removal	[paper]	[code]
2025	TPAMI CCF A	Image Lens Flare Removal Using Adversarial Curve Learning	[paper]	[code]

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2. Survey Papers

Year	Publication	Title	Paper	Project
2023	CVPRW CCF A Workshop	Mipi 2023 challenge on nighttime flare removal: Methods and results	[paper]	[project]
2024	CVPRW CCF A Workshop	Mipi 2024 challenge on nighttime flare removal: Methods and results	[paper]	[project]
2023	ArXiv	Toward flare-free images: A survey	[paper]
2023	ArXiv	Toward Real Flare Removal: A Comprehensive Pipeline and A New Benchmark	[paper]

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3. Datasets

Year	Publication	Title	Paper	Dataset
2025	NIPS CCF A	FlareX: A Physics-Informed Dataset for Lens Flare Removal via 2D Synthesis and 3D Rendering	[paper]	[dataset]
2025	ICCV CCF A	PBFG: A New Physically-Based Dataset and Removal of Lens Flares and Glares	[paper]	[dataset]
2024	TPAMI CCF A	Flare7k++: Mixing synthetic and real datasets for nighttime flare removal and beyond	[paper]	[dataset]
2022	NIPS CCF A	Flare7k: A phenomenological nighttime flare removal dataset	[paper]	[dataset]
2023	ArXiv	Tackling scattering and reflective flare in mobile camera systems: A raw image dataset for enhanced flare removal	[paper]
2023	ArXiv	Toward Real Flare Removal: A Comprehensive Pipeline and A New Benchmark	[paper]

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4. Flare removal

4.1. Unsupervised Flare Removal

Year	Publication	Title	Paper	Code
2021	ICCV CCF A	Light source guided single image flare removal from unpaired data	[paper]	[code]

4.2. Self-supervised Flare Removal

Year	Publication	Title	Paper	Code
2025	AAAI CCF A	Disentangle Nighttime Lens Flares: Self-supervised Generation-based Lens Flare Removal	[paper]	[code]

4.3. Supervised Flare Removal

Year	Publication	Title	Paper	Code
2026	AAAI CCF A	SLCFormer: Spectral-Local Context Transformer with Physics-Grounded Flare Synthesis for Nighttime Flare Removal	[paper]
2026	AAAI CCF A	Nighttime Flare Removal via Wavelet-Guided and Gated-Enhanced Spatial-Frequency Fusion Network	[paper]	[code]
2026	AAAI CCF A	CAST-LUT: Tokenizer-Guided HSV Look-Up Tables for Purple Flare Removal	[paper]	[code]
2026	Pattern Recognition Letter	Nighttime flare removal via frequency decoupling	[paper]
2025	EAAI CCF C	Flare detection and detail compensation for nighttime flare removal	[paper]
2025	ICCV CCF A	LightsOut: Diffusion-based Outpainting for Enhanced Lens Flare Removal	[paper]	[code]
2025	ICCV CCF A	Removing Out-of-Focus Reflective Flares via Color Alignment	[paper]
2025	ICCVW CCF A	FlareGS: 4D Flare Removal using Gaussian Splatting for Urban Scenes	[paper]
2025	ACM MM CCF A	DeflareMamba: Hierarchical Vision Mamba for Contextually Consistent Lens Flare Removal	[paper]	[code]
2025	IEEE TCSVT CCF B	SAFAformer: Scale-Aware Frequency-Adaptive Guidance for Nighttime Flare Removal	[paper]
2025	Neural Networks CCF B	LUFormer : A luminance-informed localized transformer with frequency augmentation for nighttime flare removal	[paper]	[code]
2025	TCE	Nighttime Glare Removal for Consumer Electronics via Latent Space Transformation and Feature Enhanced Attention Mechanism	[paper]
2025	TPAMI CCF A	Image Lens Flare Removal Using Adversarial Curve Learning	[paper]	[code]
2025	Expert Systems with Applications CCF C	IllumiNet: A two-stage model for effective flare removal and light enhancement under complex lighting conditions	[paper]
2025	ICASSP CCF C	Flare-Aware RWKV for Flare Removal	[paper]
2025	Neural Networks CCF B	When low-light meets flares: Towards Synchronous Flare Removal and Brightness Enhancement	[paper]
2025	Neurocomputing CCF C	Mask-Q attention network for flare removal	[paper]
2025	EAAI CCF C	A self-prompt based dual-domain network for nighttime flare removal	[paper]
2025	IEEE TASE CCF B	Self-prior Guided Spatial and Fourier Transformer for Nighttime Flare Removal	[paper]	[code]
2025	IEEE TCSVT CCF B	LPFSformer: Location Prior Guided Frequency and Spatial Interactive Learning for Nighttime Flare Removal	[paper]
2024	ICASSP CCF C	Flare-free vision: Empowering uformer with depth insights	[paper]	[code]
2024	The Visual Computer CCF C	Mfdnet: Multifrequency deflare network for efficient nighttime flare removal	[paper]	[code]
2024	ArXiv	Harmonizing Light and Darkness: A Symphony of Prior-guided Data Synthesis and Adaptive Focus for Nighttime Flare Removal	[paper]	[code]
2024	Pattern Recognition CCF B	Gr-gan: A unified adversarial framework for single image glare removal and denoising	[paper]
2024	BMVC CCF C	Difflare: Removing image lens flare with latent diffusion model	[paper]	[code]
2024	ACM MM CCF A	Understanding and tackling scattering and reflective flare for mobile camera systems	[paper]
2024	BMVC CCF C	GN-FR: Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields for Flare Removal	[paper]
2024	IEEE TIP CCF A	Towards blind flare removal using knowledge-driven flare-level estimator	[paper]
2023	ICCV CCF A	Improving lens flare removal with general-purpose pipeline and multiple light sources recovery	[paper]	[code]
2023	CVPRW CCF A Workshop	Hard-negative sampling with cascaded fine-tuning network to boost flare removal performance in the nighttime images	[paper]
2023	CVPRW CCF A Workshop	Ff-former: Swin fourier transformer for nighttime flare removal	[paper]
2023	CVPR CCF A	Nighttime smartphone reflective flare removal using optical center symmetry prior	[paper]	[code]
2022	NIPS CCF A	Flare7k: A phenomenological nighttime flare removal dataset	[paper]	[code]
2021	ICCV CCF A	How to train neural networks for flare removal	[paper]	[code]

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5. Other Related

Year	Publication	Title	Paper	Code
2026	AAAI CCF A	CAST-LUT: Tokenizer-Guided HSV Look-Up Tables for Purple Flare Removal	[paper]	[code]
2025	ICCVW	Learning to See Through Flare	[paper]
2025	IEEE IoTJ	Adversarial Lens Flares: A Threat to Camera-Based Systems in Smart Devices	[paper]
2025	ArXiv	Integrating Spatial and Frequency Information for Under-Display Camera Image Restoration	[paper]

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