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During the acquisition of an image from its source, noise always becomes an integral part of it. Various algorithms have been used in past to denoise the images. Image denoising still has scope for improvement. Visual information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Santosh Paudel , Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Pradip Singh Maharjan , Rameshwar Rijal

Single image dehazing is a challenging ill-posed restoration problem. Various prior-based and learning-based methods have been proposed. Most of them follow a classic atmospheric scattering model which is an elegant simplified physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Kangfu Mei , Aiwen Jiang , Juncheng Li , Mingwen Wang

Retinex-based low-light image enhancement methods are widely used due to their excellent performance. However, most of them are time-consuming for large-sized images. This paper extends the Retinex model from the spatial domain to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jingtian Zhao , Xueli Xie , Jianxiang Xi , Xiaogang Yang , Haoxuan Sun

Retinex theory provides a principled foundation for low-light image enhancement, inspiring numerous learning-based methods that integrate its principles. However, existing methods exhibits limitations in accurately decomposing reflectance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bolun Zheng , Qingshan Lei , Quan Chen , Qianyu Zhang , Kainan Yu , Xu Jia , Lingyu Zhu

Computer vision is increasingly used in areas such as unmanned vehicles, surveillance systems and remote sensing. However, in foggy scenarios, image degradation leads to loss of target details, which seriously affects the accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Zhenjun Zhang , Lijun Tang , Hongjin Wang , Lilian Zhang , Yunze He , Yaonan Wang

Multi-exposure image fusion (MEF) synthesizes multiple, differently exposed images of the same scene into a single, well-exposed composite. Retinex theory, which separates image illumination from scene reflectance, provides a natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Haowen Bai , Jiangshe Zhang , Zixiang Zhao , Lilun Deng , Yukun Cui , Shuang Xu

This report describes the experimental results obtained using a proposed variational Retinex algorithm for controlled illumination correction. Two colour restoration and enhancement schemes of the algorithm are presented for drastically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-07 U. A. Nnolim

Nighttime image dehazing is particularly challenging when dense haze and intense glow severely degrade or entirely obscure background information. Existing methods often struggle due to insufficient background priors and limited generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Beibei Lin , Stephen Lin , Robby Tan

Image defogging is a technique used extensively for enhancing visual quality of images in bad weather condition. Even though defogging algorithms have been well studied, defogging performance is degraded by demosaicking artifacts and sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Y. J. Lee , K. Hirakawa , T. Q. Nguyen

Low-light images often suffer from noise and color distortion. Object detection, semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, and other tasks are challenging when working with low-light images because of image noise and chromatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xiaochun Lei , Weiliang Mai , Junlin Xie , He Liu , Zetao Jiang , Zhaoting Gong , Chang Lu , Linjun Lu

Image dehazing using learning-based methods has achieved state-of-the-art performance in recent years. However, most existing methods train a dehazing model on synthetic hazy images, which are less able to generalize well to real hazy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Yuanjie Shao , Lerenhan Li , Wenqi Ren , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

Dehazing is a technique in computer vision for enhancing the visual quality of images captured in cloudy or foggy conditions. Dehazing helps to recover clear, high-quality images from haze-affected remote sensing data. In this study, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Tejeswar Pokuri , Shivarth Rai

Adverse weather conditions often impair the quality of captured images, inevitably inducing cutting-edge object detection models for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving. In this paper, we raise an intriguing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yihua Fan , Yongzhen Wang , Mingqiang Wei , Fu Lee Wang , Haoran Xie

Images captured in weak illumination conditions could seriously degrade the image quality. Solving a series of degradation of low-light images can effectively improve the visual quality of images and the performance of high-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jiang Hai , Zhu Xuan , Songchen Han , Ren Yang , Yutong Hao , Fengzhu Zou , Fang Lin

Hazy images reduce the visibility of the image content, and haze will lead to failure in handling subsequent computer vision tasks. In this paper, we address the problem of image dehazing by proposing a dehazing network named T-Net, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Lirong Zheng , Yanshan Li , Kaihao Zhang , Wenhan Luo

Images captured under low-light conditions are often plagued by several challenges, including diminished contrast, increased noise, loss of fine details, and unnatural color reproduction. These factors can significantly hinder the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Miao Zhang , Yiqing Shen , Shenghui Zhong

Image denoising stands as a critical challenge in image processing and computer vision, aiming to restore the original image from noise-affected versions caused by various intrinsic and extrinsic factors. This process is essential for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Peter Luvton , Alfredo Castillejos , Jim Zhao , Christina Chajo

Integrating visible and infrared images into one high-quality image, also known as visible and infrared image fusion, is a challenging yet critical task for many downstream vision tasks. Most existing works utilize pretrained deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Ming Chen , Yuxuan Cheng , Xinwei He , Xinyue Wang , Yan Aze , Jinhai Xiang

This paper presents a novel intrinsic image transfer (IIT) algorithm for illumination manipulation, which creates a local image translation between two illumination surfaces. This model is built on an optimization-based framework consisting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Junqing Huang , Michael Ruzhansky , Qianying Zhang , Haihui Wang

This paper focuses on finding the most optimal pre-processing methods considering three common algorithms for image enhancement: Brightening, CLAHE and Retinex. For the purpose of image training in general, these methods will be combined to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Thi Phuoc Hanh Nguyen , Zinan Cai , Khanh Nguyen , Sokuntheariddh Keth , Ningyuan Shen , Mira Park