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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

When one captures images in low-light conditions, the images often suffer from low visibility. This poor quality may significantly degrade the performance of many computer vision and multimedia algorithms that are primarily designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Xiaojie Guo

Digital imaging aims to replicate realistic scenes, but Low Dynamic Range (LDR) cameras cannot represent the wide dynamic range of real scenes, resulting in under-/overexposed images. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Dwip Dalal , Gautam Vashishtha , Prajwal Singh , Shanmuganathan Raman

Low-light imaging is challenging since images may appear to be dark and noised due to low signal-to-noise ratio, complex image content, and the variety in shooting scenes in extreme low-light condition. Many methods have been proposed to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Keqi Wang , Peng Gao , Steven Hoi , Qian Guo , Yuhua Qian

Lossy Image compression is necessary for efficient storage and transfer of data. Typically the trade-off between bit-rate and quality determines the optimal compression level. This makes the image quality metric an integral part of any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Juan Carlos Mier , Eddie Huang , Hossein Talebi , Feng Yang , Peyman Milanfar

Modern digital cameras and smartphones mostly rely on image signal processing (ISP) pipelines to produce realistic colored RGB images. However, compared to DSLR cameras, low-quality images are usually obtained in many portable mobile…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Rao Muhammad Umer , Christian Micheloni

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the perception or interpretability of an image captured in an environment with poor illumination. Recent advances in this area are dominated by deep learning-based solutions, where many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Chongyi Li , Chunle Guo , Linghao Han , Jun Jiang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jinwei Gu , Chen Change Loy

Low-light conditions pose significant challenges for both human and machine annotation. This in turn has led to a lack of research into machine understanding for low-light images and (in particular) videos. A common approach is to apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Joanne Lin , Crispian Morris , Ruirui Lin , Fan Zhang , David Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

This paper proposes an explicit way to optimize the super-resolution network for generating visually pleasing images. The previous approaches use several loss functions which is hard to interpret and has the implicit relationships to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Tomoki Yoshida , Kazutoshi Akita , Muhammad Haris , Norimichi Ukita

Object detection in low-light conditions remains a challenging but important problem with many practical implications. Some recent works show that, in low-light conditions, object detectors using raw image data are more robust than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Igor Morawski , Yu-An Chen , Yu-Sheng Lin , Shusil Dangi , Kai He , Winston H. Hsu

Low light images captured in a non-uniform illumination environment usually are degraded with the scene depth and the corresponding environment lights. This degradation results in severe object information loss in the degraded image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Xin Xu , Shiqin Wang , Zheng Wang , Xiaolong Zhang , Ruimin Hu

Event cameras are a new type of sensors that are different from traditional cameras. Each pixel is triggered asynchronously by event. The trigger event is the change of the brightness irradiated on the pixel. If the increment or decrement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Kun Xiao , Guohui Wang , Yi Chen , Jinghong Nan , Yongfeng Xie

Despite a rapid rise in the quality of built-in smartphone cameras, their physical limitations - small sensor size, compact lenses and the lack of specific hardware, - impede them to achieve the quality results of DSLR cameras. In this work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Andrey Ignatov , Nikolay Kobyshev , Radu Timofte , Kenneth Vanhoey , Luc Van Gool

Scene inference under low-light is a challenging problem due to severe noise in the captured images. One way to reduce noise is to use longer exposure during the capture. However, in the presence of motion (scene or camera motion), longer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Bhavya Goyal , Jean-François Lalonde , Yin Li , Mohit Gupta

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 Object detection is crucial for many real-world applications but remains challenging due to degraded image quality. While recent studies have shown that RAW images offer superior potential over RGB images, existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Jiasheng Guo , Xin Gao , Yuxiang Yan , Guanghao Li , Jian Pu

Casual photography is often performed in uncontrolled lighting that can result in low quality images and degrade the performance of downstream processing. We consider the problem of estimating surface normal and reflectance maps of scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Zhihao Xia , Jason Lawrence , Supreeth Achar

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

Deep learning based methods have achieved remarkable success in image restoration and enhancement, but most such methods rely on RGB input images. These methods fail to take into account the rich spectral distribution of natural images. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Harsh Sinha , Aditya Mehta , Murari Mandal , Pratik Narang

Most existing super-resolution methods and datasets have been developed to improve the image quality in well-lighted conditions. However, these methods do not work well in real-world low-light conditions as the images captured in such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Yang Liu , Yaofang Liu , Jinshan Pan , Yuxiang Hui , Fan Jia , Raymond H. Chan , Tieyong Zeng