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Decreased visibility, intensive noise, and biased color are the common problems existing in low-light images. These visual disturbances further reduce the performance of high-level vision tasks, such as object detection, and tracking. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Hao Chen , Zhi Jin

Images captured in weak illumination conditions could seriously degrade the image quality. Solving a series of degradation of low-light images can effectively improve the visual quality of images and the performance of high-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jiang Hai , Zhu Xuan , Songchen Han , Ren Yang , Yutong Hao , Fengzhu Zou , Fang Lin

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

The usage of digital content (photos and videos) in a variety of applications has increased due to the popularity of multimedia devices. These uses include advertising campaigns, educational resources, and social networking platforms. There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Muhammad Turab

Image captured under low-light conditions presents unpleasing artifacts, which debilitate the performance of feature extraction for many upstream visual tasks. Low-light image enhancement aims at improving brightness and contrast, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Zhijian Luo , Jiahui Tang , Yueen Hou , Zihan Huang , Yanzeng Gao

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

Retinex-based low-light image enhancement methods are widely used due to their excellent performance. However, most of them are time-consuming for large-sized images. This paper extends the Retinex model from the spatial domain to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jingtian Zhao , Xueli Xie , Jianxiang Xi , Xiaogang Yang , Haoxuan Sun

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

Motivated by their recent advances, deep learning techniques have been widely applied to low-light image enhancement (LIE) problem. Among which, Retinex theory based ones, mostly following a decomposition-adjustment pipeline, have taken an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Xinyi Liu , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Hong Wang , Deyu Meng

Although remarkable progress has been made, existing methods for enhancing underexposed photos tend to produce visually unpleasing results due to the existence of visual artifacts (e.g., color distortion, loss of details and uneven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Qing Zhang , Yongwei Nie , Lei Zhu , Chunxia Xiao , Wei-Shi Zheng

In this paper, we propose a diffusion-based unsupervised framework that incorporates physically explainable Retinex theory with diffusion models for low-light image enhancement, named LightenDiffusion. Specifically, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Hai Jiang , Ao Luo , Xiaohong Liu , Songchen Han , Shuaicheng Liu

We present IllumFlow, a novel framework that synergizes conditional Rectified Flow (CRF) with Retinex theory for low-light image enhancement (LLIE). Our model addresses low-light enhancement through separate optimization of illumination and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Wenyang Wei , Yang yang , Xixi Jia , Xiangchu Feng , Weiwei Wang , Renzhen Wang

Due to the low accuracy of object detection and recognition in many intelligent surveillance systems at nighttime, the quality of night images is crucial. Compared with the corresponding daytime image, nighttime image is characterized as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Xinyi Bai , Steffi Agino Priyanka , Hsiao-Jung Tung , Yuankai Wang

Image dehazing deals with the removal of undesired loss of visibility in outdoor images due to the presence of fog. Retinex is a color vision model mimicking the ability of the Human Visual System to robustly discount varying illuminations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Adrian Galdran , Aitor Alvarez-Gila , Alessandro Bria , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Marcelo Bertalmio

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

A novel color image enhancement method is proposed based on Retinex to enhance color images under non-uniform illumination or poor visibility conditions. Different from the conventional Retinex algorithms, the Weighted Guided Image Filter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Qi Mu , Yanyan Wei , Zhanli Li

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

Low-light images are not conducive to human observation and computer vision algorithms due to their low visibility. Although many image enhancement techniques have been proposed to solve this problem, existing methods inevitably introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Zhenqiang Ying , Ge Li , Wen Gao

Images acquired by computer vision systems under low light conditions have multiple characteristics like high noise, lousy illumination, reflectance, and bad contrast, which make object detection tasks difficult. Much work has been done to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Winston Chen , Tejas Shah

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