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Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in image dehazing. Many deep learning methods have been proposed to tackle this challenge, and have made significant accomplishments dealing with homogeneous haze. However, these solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yangyi Liu , Huan Liu , Liangyan Li , Zijun Wu , Jun Chen

Enhancing the visibility of nighttime hazy images is challenging due to the complex degradation distributions. Existing methods mainly address a single type of degradation (e.g., haze or low-light) at a time, ignoring the interplay of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Chen Zhu , Huiwen Zhang , Mu He , Yujie Li , Xiaotian Qiao

Regularization by denoising (RED) is a widely-used framework for solving inverse problems by leveraging image denoisers as image priors. Recent work has reported the state-of-the-art performance of RED in a number of imaging applications…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Yuyang Hu , Jiaming Liu , Xiaojian Xu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Images acquired by computer vision systems under low light conditions have multiple characteristics like high noise, lousy illumination, reflectance, and bad contrast, which make object detection tasks difficult. Much work has been done to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Winston Chen , Tejas Shah

Conventionally, image denoising and high-level vision tasks are handled separately in computer vision. In this paper, we cope with the two jointly and explore the mutual influence between them. First we propose a convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Ding Liu , Bihan Wen , Xianming Liu , Zhangyang Wang , Thomas S. Huang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to restore natural visibility, color fidelity, and structural detail under severe illumination degradation. State-of-the-art (SOTA) LLIE techniques often rely on large models and multi-stage training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexandru Brateanu , Tingting Mu , Codruta Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti

Removing noise from images is a challenging and fundamental problem in the field of computer vision. Images captured by modern cameras are inevitably degraded by noise which limits the accuracy of any quantitative measurements on those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Nikhil Verma , Deepkamal Kaur , Lydia Chau

Low-light hazy scenes commonly appear at dusk and early morning. The visual enhancement for low-light hazy images is an ill-posed problem. Even though numerous methods have been proposed for image dehazing and low-light enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Chaoqun Zhuang , Yunfei Liu , Sijia Wen , Feng Lu

Imaging through dense fog presents unique challenges, with essential visual information crucial for applications like object detection and recognition obscured, thereby hindering conventional image processing methods. Despite improvements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Libang Chen , Jinyan Lin , Qihang Bian , Yikun Liu , Jianying Zhou

Illumination degradation image restoration (IDIR) techniques aim to improve the visibility of degraded images and mitigate the adverse effects of deteriorated illumination. Among these algorithms, diffusion model (DM)-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chunming He , Chengyu Fang , Yulun Zhang , Tian Ye , Kai Li , Longxiang Tang , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li , Sina Farsiu

Existing research based on deep learning has extensively explored the problem of daytime image dehazing. However, few studies have considered the characteristics of nighttime hazy scenes. There are two distinctions between nighttime and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xiaofeng Cong , Jie Gui , Jing Zhang , Junming Hou , Hao Shen

This paper proposes a new light-weight convolutional neural network (5k parameters) for non-uniform illumination image enhancement to handle color, exposure, contrast, noise and artifacts, etc., simultaneously and effectively. More…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Feifan Lv , Bo Liu , Feng Lu

Image denoising is a typical ill-posed problem due to complex degradation. Leading methods based on normalizing flows have tried to solve this problem with an invertible transformation instead of a deterministic mapping. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , H. Yang

We present IllumFlow, a novel framework that synergizes conditional Rectified Flow (CRF) with Retinex theory for low-light image enhancement (LLIE). Our model addresses low-light enhancement through separate optimization of illumination and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Wenyang Wei , Yang yang , Xixi Jia , Xiangchu Feng , Weiwei Wang , Renzhen Wang

Image harmonization, which involves adjusting the foreground of a composite image to attain a unified visual consistency with the background, can be conceptualized as an image-to-image translation task. Diffusion models have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Pengfei Zhou , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang

In this paper, we introduce a new computer vision task called nighttime dehaze-enhancement. This task aims to jointly perform dehazing and lightness enhancement. Our task fundamentally differs from nighttime dehazing -- our goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Harshan Baskar , Anirudh S Chakravarthy , Prateek Garg , Divyam Goel , Abhijith S Raj , Kshitij Kumar , Lakshya , Ravichandra Parvatham , V Sushant , Bijay Kumar Rout

Nighttime image dehazing remains a challenging low-level vision problem due to the joint presence of haze, glow, non-uniform illumination, color distortion, and sensor noise, which often invalidate assumptions commonly used in daytime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mohammad Heydari , Wei Dong , Shahram Shirani , Jun Chen , Han Zhou

Image dehazing is an important task in the field of computer vision, aiming at restoring clear and detail-rich visual content from haze-affected images. However, when dealing with complex scenes, existing methods often struggle to strike a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shuaibin Fan , Senming Zhong , Wenchao Yan , Minglong Xue

Aerial images are often degraded by space-varying motion blur and simultaneous uneven illumination. To recover high-quality aerial image from its non-uniform version, we propose a novel patch-wise restoration approach based on a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Rui Chen , Huizhu Jia , Xiaodong Xie , Wen Gao

Although remarkable progress has been made, existing methods for enhancing underexposed photos tend to produce visually unpleasing results due to the existence of visual artifacts (e.g., color distortion, loss of details and uneven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Qing Zhang , Yongwei Nie , Lei Zhu , Chunxia Xiao , Wei-Shi Zheng