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However, existing multi-exposure fusion (MEF) algorithms suffer from luminance inversion artifacts in overexposed and underexposed regions when directly combining such EER image pairs. This paper proposes a neural network-based framework for HDRI based on attention mechanisms and edge assistance to recover missing luminance information. The framework derives local luminance representations from a convolution kernel perspective, and subsequently refines the global luminance order in the fused image using a Transformer-based residual group. To support the two-stage process, multi-scale channel features are extracted from a double-attention mechanism, while edge cues are incorporated to enhance detail preservation in both highlight and shadow regions. 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