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We introduce a neural network-based method to denoise pairs of images taken in quick succession, with and without a flash, in low-light environments. Our goal is to produce a high-quality rendering of the scene that preserves the color and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Zhihao Xia , Michaël Gharbi , Federico Perazzi , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Ayan Chakrabarti

Capturing images under extremely low-light conditions poses significant challenges for the standard camera pipeline. Images become too dark and too noisy, which makes traditional image enhancement techniques almost impossible to apply. Very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Ahmet Serdar Karadeniz , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

Image denoising algorithms are evaluated using images corrupted by artificial noise, which may lead to incorrect conclusions about their performances on real noise. In this paper we introduce a dataset of color images corrupted by natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Josue Anaya , Adrian Barbu

Low-light images, i.e. the images captured in low-light conditions, suffer from very poor visibility caused by low contrast, color distortion and significant measurement noise. Low-light image enhancement is about improving the visibility…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Jinxiu Liang , Yong Xu , Yuhui Quan , Jingwen Wang , Haibin Ling , Hui Ji

Denoising extreme low light images is a challenging task due to the high noise level. When the illumination is low, digital cameras increase the ISO (electronic gain) to amplify the brightness of captured data. However, this in turn…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Hao Guan , Liu Liu , Sean Moran , Fenglong Song , Gregory Slabaugh

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

A problem of image denoising when images are corrupted by a non-stationary noise is considered in this paper. Since in practice no a priori information on noise is available, noise statistics should be pre-estimated for image denoising. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-27 Sheyda Ghanbaralizadeh Bahnemiri , Mykola Ponomarenko , Karen Egiazarian

Unlike single image task, stereo image enhancement can use another view information, and its key stage is how to perform cross-view feature interaction to extract useful information from another view. However, complex noise in low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Minghua Zhao , Xiangdong Qin , Shuangli Du , Xuefei Bai , Jiahao Lyu , Yiguang Liu

Low-light imaging on mobile devices is typically challenging due to insufficient incident light coming through the relatively small aperture, resulting in a low signal-to-noise ratio. Most of the previous works on low-light image processing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Yucheng Lu , Seung-Won Jung

Image denoising is of vital importance in many imaging or computer vision related areas. With the convolutional neural networks showing strong capability in computer vision tasks, the performance of image denoising has also been brought up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Zhuang Jia

Image denoising is a fundamental problem in image processing whose primary objective is to remove the noise while preserving the original image structure. In this work, we proposed a new architecture for image denoising. We have used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-25 Sutanu Bera , Avisek Lahiri , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Due to the fast inference and good performance, discriminative learning methods have been widely studied in image denoising. However, these methods mostly learn a specific model for each noise level, and require multiple models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Kai Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

The contrast of an image can be degraded by the presence of background light and sensor noise. To overcome this degradation, quantum illumination protocols have been theorised (Science 321 (2008), Physics Review Letters 101 (2008)) that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Thomas Gregory , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Ermes Toninelli , Miles J. Padgett

Image denoising is an important pre-processing step in medical image analysis. Different algorithms have been proposed in past three decades with varying denoising performances. More recently, having outperformed all conventional methods,…

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To enhance low-light images to normally-exposed ones is highly ill-posed, namely that the mapping relationship between them is one-to-many. Previous works based on the pixel-wise reconstruction losses and deterministic processes fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Haoliang Li , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot

Contrast enhancement and noise removal are coupled problems for low-light image enhancement. The existing Retinex based methods do not take the coupling relation into consideration, resulting in under or over-smoothing of the enhanced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Yang Wang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jing Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Wei Zhang , Feng Wu

Image denoising is the process of removing noise from noisy images, which is an image domain transferring task, i.e., from a single or several noise level domains to a photo-realistic domain. In this paper, we propose an effective image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-05 Xianxu Hou , Hongming Luo , Jingxin Liu , Bolei Xu , Ke Sun , Yuanhao Gong , Bozhi Liu , Guoping Qiu

This paper proposes a novel image contrast enhancement method based on both a noise aware shadow-up function and Retinex (retina and cortex) decomposition. Under low light conditions, images taken by digital cameras have low contrast in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Chien Cheng Chien , Yuma Kinoshita , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

This paper proposes a deep learning architecture that attains statistically significant improvements over traditional algorithms in Poisson image denoising espically when the noise is strong. Poisson noise commonly occurs in low-light and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Po-Yu Liu , Edmund Y. Lam

Image denoising is a typical ill-posed problem due to complex degradation. Leading methods based on normalizing flows have tried to solve this problem with an invertible transformation instead of a deterministic mapping. However, the…

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