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Existing instance segmentation techniques are primarily tailored for high-visibility inputs, but their performance significantly deteriorates in extremely low-light environments. In this work, we take a deep look at instance segmentation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Linwei Chen , Ying Fu , Kaixuan Wei , Dezhi Zheng , Felix Heide

The low-light conditions are challenging to the vision-centric perception systems for autonomous driving in the dark environment. In this paper, we propose a new benchmark dataset (named DarkDriving) to investigate the low-light enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Wuqi Wang , Haochen Yang , Baolu Li , Jiaqi Sun , Xiangmo Zhao , Zhigang Xu , Qing Guo , Haigen Min , Tianyun Zhang , Hongkai Yu

Detecting objects in low-light scenarios presents a persistent challenge, as detectors trained on well-lit data exhibit significant performance degradation on low-light data due to low visibility. Previous methods mitigate this issue by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhipeng Du , Miaojing Shi , Jiankang Deng

Shadow detection in general photos is a nontrivial problem, due to the complexity of the real world. Though recent shadow detectors have already achieved remarkable performance on various benchmark data, their performance is still limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Xiaowei Hu , Tianyu Wang , Chi-Wing Fu , Yitong Jiang , Qiong Wang , Pheng-Ann Heng

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

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

Collections of images under a single, uncontrolled illumination have enabled the rapid advancement of core computer vision tasks like classification, detection, and segmentation. But even with modern learning techniques, many inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Lukas Murmann , Michael Gharbi , Miika Aittala , Fredo Durand

A low-light image enhancement is a highly demanded image processing technique, especially for consumer digital cameras and cameras on mobile phones. In this paper, a gradient-based low-light image enhancement algorithm is proposed. The key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Masayuki Tanaka , Takashi Shibata , Masatoshi Okutomi

Nighttime camera-based depth estimation is a highly challenging task, especially for autonomous driving applications, where accurate depth perception is essential for ensuring safe navigation. Models trained on daytime data often fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Simon de Moreau , Yasser Almehio , Andrei Bursuc , Hafid El-Idrissi , Bogdan Stanciulescu , Fabien Moutarde

Imaging in low-light environments is challenging due to reduced scene radiance, which leads to elevated sensor noise and reduced color saturation. Most learning-based low-light enhancement methods rely on paired training data captured under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Maria Pilligua , David Serrano-Lozano , Pai Peng , Ramon Baldrich , Michael S. Brown , Javier Vazquez-Corral

Low-light scenes are prevalent in real-world applications (e.g. autonomous driving and surveillance at night). Recently, multi-object tracking in various practical use cases have received much attention, but multi-object tracking in dark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Xinzhe Wang , Kang Ma , Qiankun Liu , Yunhao Zou , Ying Fu

This paper considers matching images of low-light scenes, aiming to widen the frontier of SfM and visual SLAM applications. Recent image sensors can record the brightness of scenes with more than eight-bit precision, available in their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Wenzheng Song , Masanori Suganuma , Xing Liu , Noriyuki Shimobayashi , Daisuke Maruta , Takayuki Okatani

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is essential for numerous computer vision tasks, including object detection, tracking, segmentation, and scene understanding. Despite substantial research on improving low-quality images captured in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Md Tanvir Islam , Inzamamul Alam , Simon S. Woo , Saeed Anwar , IK Hyun Lee , Khan Muhammad

Low light conditions in aerial images adversely affect the performance of several vision based applications. There is a need for methods that can efficiently remove the low light attributes and assist in the performance of key vision tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Prateek Garg , Murari Mandal , Pratik Narang

Low-light images suffer from severe noise and low illumination. Current deep learning models that are trained with real-world images have excellent noise reduction, but a ratio parameter must be chosen manually to complete the enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Qingxu Fu , Xiaoguang Di , Yu Zhang

Low-light environments pose significant challenges for image enhancement methods. To address these challenges, in this work, we introduce the HUE dataset, a comprehensive collection of high-resolution event and frame sequences captured in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Burak Ercan , Onur Eker , Aykut Erdem , Erkut Erdem

Many open-world applications require the detection of novel objects, yet state-of-the-art object detection and instance segmentation networks do not excel at this task. The key issue lies in their assumption that regions without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Kuniaki Saito , Ping Hu , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

This paper proposes a new framework for low-light image enhancement by simultaneously conducting the appearance as well as structure modeling. It employs the structural feature to guide the appearance enhancement, leading to sharp and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Xiaogang Xu , Ruixing Wang , Jiangbo Lu

Low-light images, characterized by inadequate illumination, pose challenges of diminished clarity, muted colors, and reduced details. Low-light image enhancement, an essential task in computer vision, aims to rectify these issues by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Hossein Shakibania , Sina Raoufi , Hassan Khotanlou

Night images suffer not only from low light, but also from uneven distributions of light. Most existing night visibility enhancement methods focus mainly on enhancing low-light regions. This inevitably leads to over enhancement and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yeying Jin , Wenhan Yang , Robby T. Tan