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There is an increasing consensus that the design and optimization of low light image enhancement methods need to be fully driven by perceptual quality. With numerous approaches proposed to enhance low-light images, much less work has been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Danni Huang , Lingyu Zhu , Zihao Lin , Hanwei Zhu , Shiqi Wang , Baoliang Chen

This paper presents a novel and efficient image enhancement method based on pigment representation. Unlike conventional methods where the color transformation is restricted to pre-defined color spaces like RGB, our method dynamically adapts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Se-Ho Lee , Keunsoo Ko , Seung-Wook Kim

Maritime images captured under low-light imaging condition easily suffer from low visibility and unexpected noise, leading to negative effects on maritime traffic supervision and management. To promote imaging performance, it is necessary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Yu Guo , Yuxu Lu , Ryan Wen Liu , Meifang Yang , Kwok Tai Chui

There are several images that do not have uniform brightness which pose a challenging problem for image enhancement systems. As histogram equalization has been successfully used to correct for uniform brightness problems, a histogram…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Chelsy Sapna Josephus , S. Remya

Enhancing images in low-light conditions is an important challenge in computer vision. Insufficient illumination negatively affects the quality of images, resulting in low contrast, intensive noise, and blurred details. This paper presents…

We propose GAN-based image enhancement models for frequency enhancement of 2D and 3D seismic images. Seismic imagery is used to understand and characterize the Earth's subsurface for energy exploration. Because these images often suffer…

Capturing High Dynamic Range (HDR) scenery using 8-bit cameras often suffers from over-/underexposure, loss of fine details due to low bit-depth compression, skewed color distributions, and strong noise in dark areas. Traditional LDR image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Baiang Li , Sizhuo Ma , Yanhong Zeng , Xiaogang Xu , Youqing Fang , Zhao Zhang , Jian Wang , Kai Chen

This paper outlines some new observational and data processing techniques for enhancing the dynamic range of low frequency images obtained with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope. We illustrate new software tools developed to facilitate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-02 Peeyush Prasad , C. R. Subrahmanya

Nowadays, due to advanced digital imaging technologies and internet accessibility to the public, the number of generated digital images has increased dramatically. Thus, the need for automatic image enhancement techniques is quite apparent.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Saeedeh Rezaee , Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri

Existing image enhancement methods fall short of expectations because with them it is difficult to improve global and local image contrast simultaneously. To address this problem, we propose a histogram equalization-based method that adapts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Xiaomeng Wu , Takahito Kawanishi , Kunio Kashino

This report presents the results of a partial differential equation (PDE)-based image enhancement algorithm, for dynamic range compression and illumination correction in the absence of the logarithmic function. The proposed algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-23 U. A. Nnolim

We report a method for super-resolution of range images. Our approach leverages the interpretation of LR image as sparse samples on the HR grid. Based on this interpretation, we demonstrate that our recently reported approach, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-30 Arnav Bhavsar

Image enhancement is a method of improving the quality of an image and contrast is a major aspect. Traditional methods of contrast enhancement like histogram equalization results in over/under enhancement of the image especially a lower…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Sandeep Joshi , Samrudh Kumar

Image enhancement aims at improving the information content of original image for a specific purpose. This purpose could be for visual interpretation or for effective extraction of required details. Nevertheless, some acquired images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 E Onyedinma , I Onyenwe , H Inyiama

Existing methods for enhancing dark images captured in a very low-light environment assume that the intensity level of the optimal output image is known and already included in the training set. However, this assumption often does not hold,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Evgeny Hershkovitch Neiterman , Michael Klyuchka , Gil Ben-Artzi

In recent years, many data augmentation techniques have been proposed to increase the diversity of input data and reduce the risk of overfitting on deep neural networks. In this work, we propose an easy-to-implement and model-free data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Kun He , Chang Liu , Stephen Lin , John E. Hopcroft

In the process of parametric optical image amplification, images are formed at new frequencies in addition to the amplified original image. We show that the parametric multiplexing of optical images can be used to produce an image with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 D. A. Balakin , A. S. Chirkin

Image colorization adds color to grayscale images. It not only increases the visual appeal of grayscale images, but also enriches the information contained in scientific images that lack color information. Most existing methods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-17 Yingzhen Yang , Xinqi Chu , Tian-Tsong Ng , Alex Yong-Sang Chia , Shuicheng Yan , Thomas S. Huang

Recent advances in deep learning, particularly neural networks, have significantly impacted a wide range of fields, including the automatic enhancement of underwater images. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach to improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jose M. Montero , Jose-Luis Lisani

Semantic inpainting or image completion alludes to the task of inferring arbitrary large missing regions in images based on image semantics. Since the prediction of image pixels requires an indication of high-level context, this makes it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Priyansh Saxena , Raahat Gupta , Akshat Maheshwari , Saumil Maheshwari