Bio-SFT: Asymmetric Cortical Guidance and Retinal Adaptation for Robust HDR Reconstruction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17456v1
• Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:07:54 GMT
• Title: Bio-SFT: Asymmetric Cortical Guidance and Retinal Adaptation for Robust HDR Reconstruction
• Abstract summary: Extreme luminance variation and severe quantization in dark regions make accurate reconstruction challenging.<n>Bio-SFT is a bio-inspired spiking frequency transformer for single-image HDR reconstruction.<n>Experiments on HDRTV1K show that Bio-SFT consistently improves HDR-VDP-3 and $E_ITP$ while reducing artifact propagation in symmetric guidance pipelines.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recovering high dynamic range (HDR) radiance from a single standard dynamic range (SDR) image is highly ill-posed. Extreme luminance variation and severe quantization in dark regions make accurate reconstruction challenging, often leading to visual artifacts and color distortions. To address this problem, we propose Bio-SFT, a bio-inspired spiking frequency transformer for single-image HDR reconstruction. Bio-SFT incorporates three biologically motivated components. First, a learnable Naka--Rushton retinal adaptation frontend stabilizes the input under complex lighting conditions. Second, an explicit Parvo--Magno split introduces asymmetric Parvo-to-Magno guidance, allowing high-frequency structural cues to modulate low-frequency reconstruction. Third, an event-driven SNN hard gating module applies all-or-none spiking to suppress dark-region noise while preserving structural details. The module is trained with a sparsity prior to encourage efficient feature utilization. Built for end-to-end training within a transformer backbone, these lightweight components provide strong parameter efficiency. Experiments on HDRTV1K show that Bio-SFT achieves competitive perceptual quality and consistently improves HDR-VDP-3 and $ΔE_{ITP}$ while reducing artifact propagation in symmetric guidance pipelines.

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