“…Previous works on bit-depth expansion smooth image by applying the spatially adaptive filter [8] or selective average filter [47], or even directly adding noise to alleviate the artifacts [7]. Learning-based methods [22,32,55,43] have been proposed recently and they usually focus on restoration from lower bit-depth input to the 8-bit image. In this work, we aiming at recovering a 16-bit HDR image from an 8-bit LDR image.…”