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We introduce a camera pipeline for rendering visually pleasing photographs in low light conditions, as part of the NTIRE2022 Night Photography Rendering challenge. Given the nature of the task, where the objective is verbally defined by an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Simone Zini , Claudio Rota , Marco Buzzelli , Simone Bianco , Raimondo Schettini

Image/video denoising in low-light scenes is an extremely challenging problem due to limited photon count and high noise. In this paper, we propose a novel approach with contrastive learning to address this issue. Inspired by the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Taoyong Cui , Yuhan Dong

Low-light image enhancement is challenging in that it needs to consider not only brightness recovery but also complex issues like color distortion and noise, which usually hide in the dark. Simply adjusting the brightness of a low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Feifan Lv , Yu Li , Feng Lu

Real-world imaging systems acquire measurements that are degraded by noise, optical aberrations, and other imperfections that make image processing for human viewing and higher-level perception tasks challenging. Conventional cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Steven Diamond , Vincent Sitzmann , Frank Julca-Aguilar , Stephen Boyd , Gordon Wetzstein , Felix Heide

Raw images taken in low-light conditions are very noisy due to low photon count and sensor noise. Learning-based denoisers have the potential to reconstruct high-quality images. For training, however, these denoisers require large paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Liying Lu , Raphaël Achddou , Sabine Süsstrunk

Low-light imaging on mobile devices is typically challenging due to insufficient incident light coming through the relatively small aperture, resulting in a low signal-to-noise ratio. Most of the previous works on low-light image processing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Yucheng Lu , Seung-Won Jung

Images captured in low-light conditions usually suffer from very low contrast, which increases the difficulty of subsequent computer vision tasks in a great extent. In this paper, a low-light image enhancement model based on convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Liang Shen , Zihan Yue , Fan Feng , Quan Chen , Shihao Liu , Jie Ma

When taking photos in dim-light environments, due to the small amount of light entering, the shot images are usually extremely dark, with a great deal of noise, and the color cannot reflect real-world color. Under this condition, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Di Zhao , Lan Ma , Songnan Li , Dahai Yu

In surveillance, monitoring and tactical reconnaissance, gathering the right visual information from a dynamic environment and accurately processing such data are essential ingredients to making informed decisions which determines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Kin Gwn Lore , Adedotun Akintayo , Soumik Sarkar

When taking photos under an environment with insufficient light, the exposure time and the sensor gain usually require to be carefully chosen to obtain images with satisfying visual quality. For example, the images with high ISO usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Zhilu Zhang , Rongjian Xu , Ming Liu , Zifei Yan , Wangmeng Zuo

Low-light image enhancement task is essential yet challenging as it is ill-posed intrinsically. Previous arts mainly focus on the low-light images captured in the visible spectrum using pixel-wise loss, which limits the capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Shulin Tian , Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the illumination and visibility of dark images with lighting noise. To handle the real-world low-light images often with heavy and complex noise, some efforts have been made for joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jiahuan Ren , Zhao Zhang , Richang Hong , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang , Shuicheng Yan

In recent years, significant progress has been made in image recognition technology based on deep neural networks. However, improving recognition performance under low-light conditions remains a significant challenge. This study addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Seitaro Ono , Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito , Masato Tsukada

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

Defocus deblurring is a challenging task due to the spatially varying nature of defocus blur. While deep learning approach shows great promise in solving image restoration problems, defocus deblurring demands accurate training data that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Lingyan Ruan , Bin Chen , Jizhou Li , Miuling Lam

In recent years, light fields have become a major research topic and their applications span across the entire spectrum of classical image processing. Among the different methods used to capture a light field are the lenslet cameras, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Pierre Matysiak , Mairéad Grogan , Mikaël Le Pendu , Martin Alain , Aljosa Smolic

This paper introduces a novel lightweight computational framework for enhancing images under low-light conditions, utilizing advanced machine learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional enhancement techniques often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhuoheng Li , Yuheng Pan , Houcheng Yu , Zhiheng Zhang

Low-light is an inescapable element of our daily surroundings that greatly affects the efficiency of our vision. Research works on low-light has seen a steady growth, particularly in the field of image enhancement, but there is still a lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Yuen Peng Loh , Chee Seng Chan

While learning based compression techniques for images have outperformed traditional methods, they have not been widely adopted in machine learning pipelines. This is largely due to lack of standardization and lack of retention of salient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Kartik Gupta , Kimberley Faria , Vikas Mehta

Image denoising is an essential tool in computational photography. Standard denoising techniques, which use deep neural networks at their core, require pairs of clean and noisy images for its training. If we do not possess the clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 David Honzátko , Siavash A. Bigdeli , Engin Türetken , L. Andrea Dunbar