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In recent years, there has been a growing interest in low-light image enhancement (LLIE) due to its importance for critical downstream tasks. Current Retinex-based methods and learning-based approaches have shown significant LLIE…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yasin Demir , Nur Hüseyin Kaplan , Sefa Kucuk , Nagihan Severoglu

Many existing methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) based on Retinex theory ignore important factors that affect the validity of this theory in digital imaging, such as noise, quantization error, non-linearity, and dynamic range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Shangquan Sun , Wenqi Ren , Jingyang Peng , Fenglong Song , Xiaochun Cao

Images taken in low light often show color shift, low contrast, noise, and other artifacts that hurt computer-vision accuracy. Retinex theory addresses this by viewing an image S as the pixel-wise product of reflectance R and illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sos Agaian , Vladimir Frants

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

Low light images suffer from severe noise, low brightness, low contrast, etc. In previous researches, many image enhancement methods have been proposed, but few methods can deal with these problems simultaneously. In this paper, to solve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Bin Zhang , Ruihang Ji , Chunhui Wang

Low-light and blurring issues are prevalent when capturing photos at night, often due to the use of long exposure to address dim environments. Addressing these joint problems can be challenging and error-prone if an end-to-end model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Tu Vo , Chan Y. Park

Real-world low-light images often suffer from complex degradations such as local overexposure, low brightness, noise, and uneven illumination. Supervised methods tend to overfit to specific scenarios, while unsupervised methods, though…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Huaqiu Li , Xiaowan Hu , Haoqian Wang

We present a novel dehazing and low-light enhancement method based on an illumination map that is accurately estimated by a convolutional neural network (CNN). In this paper, the illumination map is used as a component for three different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Guisik Kim , Junseok Kwon

Low-light image enhancement (LLE) aims to improve the visual quality of images captured in poorly lit conditions, which often suffer from low brightness, low contrast, noise, and color distortions. These issues hinder the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Junyu Xia , Jiesong Bai , Yihang Dong

The task of extracting intrinsic components, such as reflectance and shading, from neural radiance fields is of growing interest. However, current methods largely focus on synthetic scenes and isolated objects, overlooking the complexities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yixiong Yang , Shilin Hu , Haoyu Wu , Ramon Baldrich , Dimitris Samaras , Maria Vanrell

Low-light image enhancement plays very important roles in low-level vision field. Recent works have built a large variety of deep learning models to address this task. However, these approaches mostly rely on significant architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Risheng Liu , Long Ma , Jiaao Zhang , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

Low-light image enhancement aims to restore the under-exposure image captured in dark scenarios. Under such scenarios, traditional frame-based cameras may fail to capture the structure and color information due to the exposure time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xuejian Guo , Zhiqiang Tian , Yuehang Wang , Siqi Li , Yu Jiang , Shaoyi Du , Yue Gao

Images captured in poorly lit conditions are often corrupted by acquisition noise. Leveraging recent advances in graph-based regularization, we propose a fast Retinex-based restoration scheme that denoises and contrast-enhances an image.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Yeganeh Gharedaghi , Gene Cheung , Xianming Liu

Intrinsic image decomposition is the process of separating the reflectance and shading layers of an image, which is a challenging and underdetermined problem. In this paper, we propose to systematically address this problem using a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Sai Bi , Nima Khademi Kalantari , Ravi Ramamoorthi

For the task of low-light image enhancement, deep learning-based algorithms have demonstrated superiority and effectiveness compared to traditional methods. However, these methods, primarily based on Retinex theory, tend to overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shuang Wang , Qianwen Lu , Boxing Peng , Yihe Nie , Qingchuan Tao

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

It is suggested that low-light image enhancement realizes one-to-many mapping since we have different definitions of NORMAL-light given application scenarios or users' aesthetic. However, most existing methods ignore subjectivity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Ya'nan Wang , Zhuqing Jiang , Chang Liu , Kai Li , Aidong Men , Haiying Wang

Prior-based methods for low-light image enhancement often face challenges in extracting available prior information from dim images. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a simple yet effective Retinex model with the proposed edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Chaoyan Huang , Zhongming Wu , Tieyong Zeng

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

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