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Saliency detection methods are central to several real-world applications such as robot navigation and satellite imagery. However, the performance of existing methods deteriorate under low-light conditions because training datasets mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Kitty Varghese , Sudarshan Rajagopalan , Mohit Lamba , Kaushik Mitra

There is a growing consensus in the research community that the optimization of low-light image enhancement approaches should be guided by the visual quality perceived by end users. Despite the substantial efforts invested in the design of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Baoliang Chen , Lingyu Zhu , Hanwei Zhu , Wenhan Yang , Linqi Song , Shiqi Wang

Poor image quality in low light images may result in a reduced number of feature matching between images. In this paper, we investigate the performance of feature extraction algorithms in low light environments. To find an optimal setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Pranjay Shyam , Antyanta Bangunharcana , Kyung-Soo Kim

A Light Field (LF) camera consists of an additional two-dimensional array of micro-lenses placed between the main lens and sensor, compared to a conventional camera. The sensor pixels under each micro-lens receive light from a sub-aperture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Suresh Nehra , Aupendu Kar , Jayanta Mukhopadhyay , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Image acquisition in low-light conditions suffers from poor quality and significant degradation in visual aesthetics. This affects the visual perception of the acquired image and the performance of various computer vision and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Sumit Shekhar , Max Reimann , Amir Semmo , Sebastian Pasewaldt , Jürgen Döllner , Matthias Trapp

Enhancing the visibility in extreme low-light environments is a challenging task. Under nearly lightless condition, existing image denoising methods could easily break down due to significantly low SNR. In this paper, we systematically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Kaixuan Wei , Ying Fu , Yinqiang Zheng , Jiaolong Yang

Illumination effects in images, specifically cast shadows and shading, have been shown to decrease the performance of deep neural networks on a large number of vision-based detection, recognition and segmentation tasks in urban driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Alexandra Carlson , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

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 photography produces images with low signal-to-noise ratios due to limited photons. In such conditions, common approximations like the Gaussian noise model fall short, and many denoising techniques fail to remove noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Liying Lu , Raphaël Achddou , Sabine Süsstrunk

Enhancing practical low light raw images is a difficult task due to severe noise and color distortions from short exposure time and limited illumination. Despite the success of existing Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 K. Ram Prabhakar , Vishal Vinod , Nihar Ranjan Sahoo , R. Venkatesh Babu

This paper presents a novel network structure with illumination-aware gamma correction and complete image modelling to solve the low-light image enhancement problem. Low-light environments usually lead to less informative large-scale dark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yinglong Wang , Zhen Liu , Jianzhuang Liu , Songcen Xu , Shuaicheng Liu

Adverse lighting conditions, such as cast shadows and irregular illumination, pose significant challenges to computer vision systems by degrading visibility and color fidelity. Consequently, effective shadow removal and ALN are critical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Youngjin Oh , Junyoung Park , Junhyeong Kwon , Nam Ik Cho

Image enhancement is a common technique used to mitigate issues such as severe noise, low brightness, low contrast, and color deviation in low-light images. However, providing an optimal high-light image as a reference for low-light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Junde Wu , Rao Fu , Yong Li , Yue Wang , Yanwu Xu , Guohui Yang , Chunhui Wang

Few-shot learning that trains image classifiers over few labeled examples per category is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose to exploit an additional big dataset with different categories to improve the accuracy of few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Liangqu Long , Wei Wang , Jun Wen , Meihui Zhang , Qian Lin , Beng Chin Ooi

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

In this paper, we propose a novel low-light image enhancement method aimed at improving the performance of recognition models. Despite recent advances in deep learning, the recognition of images under low-light conditions remains a…

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

Low-Light Image Enhancement is a computer vision task which intensifies the dark images to appropriate brightness. It can also be seen as an ill-posed problem in image restoration domain. With the success of deep neural networks, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Chi-Mao Fan , Tsung-Jung Liu , Kuan-Hsien Liu

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the perception of images collected in dim environments and provide high-quality data support for image recognition tasks. When dealing with photos captured under non-uniform illumination, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xiao Fang , Xin Gao , Baofeng Li , Feng Zhai , Yu Qin , Zhihang Meng , Jiansheng Lu , Chun Xiao

Object detection and semantic segmentation are two of the most widely adopted deep learning algorithms in agricultural applications. One of the major sources of variability in image quality acquired in the outdoors for such tasks is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Abhisesh Silwal , Tanvir Parhar , Francisco Yandun , George Kantor

Light field applications, especially light field rendering and depth estimation, developed rapidly in recent years. While state-of-the-art light field rendering methods handle semi-transparent and reflective objects well, depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Titus Leistner , Radek Mackowiak , Lynton Ardizzone , Ullrich Köthe , Carsten Rother