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This paper presents an algorithm that enhances undesirably illuminated images by generating and fusing multi-level illuminations from a single image.The input image is first decomposed into illumination and reflectance components by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Jae Sung Park , Nam Ik Cho

Images captured under low-light conditions often suffer from (partially) poor visibility. Besides unsatisfactory lightings, multiple types of degradations, such as noise and color distortion due to the limited quality of cameras, hide in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yonghua Zhang , Jiawan Zhang , Xiaojie Guo

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

In this paper, we investigate video analytics in low-light environments, and propose an end-edge coordinated system with joint video encoding and enhancement. It adaptively transmits low-light videos from cameras and performs enhancement…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Yuanyi He , Peng Yang , Tian Qin , Ning Zhang

Images captured under real-world low-light conditions face significant challenges due to uneven ambient lighting, making it difficult for existing end-to-end methods to enhance images with a large dynamic range to normal exposure levels. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Haodian Wang , Yaqi Song

Images captured under low-light conditions present significant limitations in many applications, as poor lighting can obscure details, reduce contrast, and hide noise. Removing the illumination effects and enhancing the quality of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Daniel Torres , Joan Duran , Julia Navarro , Catalina Sbert

Enhancing images in low-light conditions is an important challenge in computer vision. Insufficient illumination negatively affects the quality of images, resulting in low contrast, intensive noise, and blurred details. This paper presents…

Images captured in low-light environment often suffer from complex degradation. Simply adjusting light would inevitably result in burst of hidden noise and color distortion. To seek results with satisfied lighting, cleanliness, and realism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Qiming Hu , Xiaojie Guo

Extremely low-light text images are common in natural scenes, making scene text detection and recognition challenging. One solution is to enhance these images using low-light image enhancement methods before text extraction. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Che-Tsung Lin , Chun Chet Ng , Zhi Qin Tan , Wan Jun Nah , Xinyu Wang , Jie Long Kew , Pohao Hsu , Shang Hong Lai , Chee Seng Chan , Christopher Zach

There is an increasing consensus that the design and optimization of low light image enhancement methods need to be fully driven by perceptual quality. With numerous approaches proposed to enhance low-light images, much less work has been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Danni Huang , Lingyu Zhu , Zihao Lin , Hanwei Zhu , Shiqi Wang , Baoliang Chen

Enhancing low-light images while maintaining natural colors is a challenging problem due to camera processing variations and limited access to photos with ground-truth lighting conditions. The latter is a crucial factor for supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wojciech Kozłowski , Michał Szachniewicz , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba

The current event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that respond to brightness changes in the scene asynchronously and independently for every pixel, and transmit these changes as ternary event streams. Event cameras have several benefits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Eero Lehtonen , Tuomo Komulainen , Ari Paasio , Mika Laiho

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the visibility of images captured in poorly lit environments. Prevalent event-based solutions primarily utilize events triggered by motion, i.e., ''motion events'' to strengthen only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lei Sun , Yuhan Bao , Jiajun Zhai , Jingyun Liang , Yulun Zhang , Kaiwei Wang , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

As critical visual details become obscured, the low visibility and high ISO noise in extremely low-light images pose a significant challenge to human pose estimation. Current methods fail to provide high-quality representations due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Feng Zhang , Ze Li , Xiatian Zhu , Lei Chen

We describe a novel integrated algorithm for real-time enhancement of video acquired under challenging lighting conditions. Such conditions include low lighting, haze, and high dynamic range situations. The algorithm automatically detects…

Graphics · Computer Science 2011-02-17 Xuan Dong , Jiangtao , Wen , Weixin Li , Yi , Pang , Guan Wang , Yao Lu , Wei Meng

Image enhancement is an important image processing technique that processes images suitably for a specific application e.g. image editing. The conventional solutions of image enhancement are grouped into two categories which are spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Hui Li , Xiaomeng Wang , Weifeng Liu , Yanjiang Wang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a pervasive yet challenging problem, since: 1) low-light measurements may vary due to different imaging conditions in practice; 2) images can be enlightened subjectively according to diverse preferences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Rongkai Zhang , Lanqing Guo , Siyu Huang , Bihan Wen

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

Power consumption is a critical factor for the deployment of embedded computer vision systems. We explore the use of computational cameras that directly output binary gradient images to reduce the portion of the power consumption allocated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Suren Jayasuriya , Orazio Gallo , Jinwei Gu , Jan Kautz

Object recognition is a critical part of any surveillance system. It is the matter of utmost concern to identify intruders and foreign objects in the area where surveillance is done. The performance of surveillance system using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Aashish Bhandari , Aayush Kafle , Pranjal Dhakal , Prateek Raj Joshi , Dinesh Baniya Kshatri