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Extremely low-light text images are common in natural scenes, making scene text detection and recognition challenging. One solution is to enhance these images using low-light image enhancement methods before text extraction. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Che-Tsung Lin , Chun Chet Ng , Zhi Qin Tan , Wan Jun Nah , Xinyu Wang , Jie Long Kew , Pohao Hsu , Shang Hong Lai , Chee Seng Chan , Christopher Zach

Low-light image enhancement (LIE) aims at precisely and efficiently recovering an image degraded in poor illumination environments. Recent advanced LIE techniques are using deep neural networks, which require lots of low-normal light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yunlong Lin , Zhenqi Fu , Kairun Wen , Tian Ye , Sixiang Chen , Ge Meng , Yingying Wang , Yue Huang , Xiaotong Tu , Xinghao Ding

Event-based low-light image enhancement (LIE) methods mainly focus on incorporating high dynamic range (HDR) information from events while overlooking the essential global illumination in images and the inherent noise sensitivity of event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Senyan Xu , Zhijing Sun , Kean Liu , Xin Lu , Ruixuan Jiang , Mingyang Huang , Xueyang Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha

Absence of nearby light sources while capturing an image will degrade the visibility and quality of the captured image, making computer vision tasks difficult. In this paper, a color-wise attention network (CWAN) is proposed for low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yousef Atoum , Mao Ye , Liu Ren , Ying Tai , Xiaoming Liu

Images captured under low-light conditions manifest poor visibility, lack contrast and color vividness. Compared to conventional approaches, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well in enhancing images. However, being solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Aditya Arora , Muhammad Haris , Syed Waqas Zamir , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Low-light image enhancement presents two primary challenges: 1) Significant variations in low-light images across different conditions, and 2) Enhancement levels influenced by subjective preferences and user intent. To address these issues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Ming Zhao , Pingping Liu , Tongshun Zhang , Zhe Zhang

Self-supervised low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is highly appealing as it eliminates the reliance on external paired data. However, the lack of external references causes networks to struggle with decoupling entangled illumination,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Peiyuan He , Hainuo Wang , Hengxing Liu , Mingjia Li , Xiaojie Guo

In low-light environments, the performance of computer vision algorithms often deteriorates significantly, adversely affecting key vision tasks such as segmentation, detection, and classification. With the rapid advancement of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Fangxue Liu , Lei Fan

A novel method of color image enhancement is proposed, in which three or four color channels of the image are transformed to one channel 2-D grayscale image. This paper describes different models of such transformations in the RGB and other…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-24 Artyom M Grigoryan , Aparna John , Sos S Agaian

Principle objective of Image enhancement is to process an image so that result is more suitable than original image for specific application. Digital image enhancement techniques provide a multitude of choices for improving the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-23 Raman Maini , Himanshu Aggarwal

Low-light video enhancement (LLVE) is an important yet challenging task with many applications such as photographing and autonomous driving. Unlike single image low-light enhancement, most LLVE methods utilize temporal information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Lin Liu , Junfeng An , Jianzhuang Liu , Shanxin Yuan , Xiangyu Chen , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

In this paper, we will present p roposed enhance process of image compression by using RLE algorithm. This proposed yield to decrease the size of compressing image, but the original method used primarily for compressing a binary images…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Ali H. Husseen Al-nuaimi , Shyamaa Shakir Al-juboori , R. J. Mohammed

The extremes of lighting (e.g. too much or too little light) usually cause many troubles for machine and human vision. Many recent works have mainly focused on under-exposure cases where images are often captured in low-light conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Hue Nguyen , Diep Tran , Khoi Nguyen , Rang Nguyen

A novel color image enhancement method is proposed based on Retinex to enhance color images under non-uniform illumination or poor visibility conditions. Different from the conventional Retinex algorithms, the Weighted Guided Image Filter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Qi Mu , Yanyan Wei , Zhanli Li

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) investigates how to improve illumination and produce normal-light images. The majority of existing methods improve low-light images via a global and uniform manner, without taking into account the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Yuhui Wu , Chen Pan , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Jiwei Wei , Chongyi Li , Heng Tao Shen

This paper introduces a complete method for the automatic detection, identification and localization of lighting elements in buildings, leveraging the available building information modeling (BIM) data of a building and feeding the BIM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Francisco Troncoso-Pastoriza , Pablo Eguía-Oller , Rebeca P. Díaz-Redondo , Enrique Granada-Álvarez

In this paper, we introduce Latent Bridge Matching (LBM), a new, versatile and scalable method that relies on Bridge Matching in a latent space to achieve fast image-to-image translation. We show that the method can reach state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Clément Chadebec , Onur Tasar , Sanjeev Sreetharan , Benjamin Aubin

Low-light images often suffer from limited visibility and multiple types of degradation, rendering low-light image enhancement (LIE) a non-trivial task. Some endeavors have been recently made to enhance low-light images using convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zixiang Wei , Yiting Wang , Lichao Sun , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Lin Wang

Motivated by their recent advances, deep learning techniques have been widely applied to low-light image enhancement (LIE) problem. Among which, Retinex theory based ones, mostly following a decomposition-adjustment pipeline, have taken an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Xinyi Liu , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Hong Wang , Deyu Meng

There has been significant progress in Masked Image Modeling (MIM). Existing MIM methods can be broadly categorized into two groups based on the reconstruction target: pixel-based and tokenizer-based approaches. The former offers a simpler…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yuan Liu , Songyang Zhang , Jiacheng Chen , Zhaohui Yu , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin