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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

Raw images taken in low-light conditions are very noisy due to low photon count and sensor noise. Learning-based denoisers have the potential to reconstruct high-quality images. For training, however, these denoisers require large paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Liying Lu , Raphaël Achddou , Sabine Süsstrunk

Deep learning approaches in image processing predominantly resort to supervised learning. A majority of methods for image denoising are no exception to this rule and hence demand pairs of noisy and corresponding clean images. Only recently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Priyatham Kattakinda , A. N. Rajagopalan

Low-light image enhancement strives to improve the contrast, adjust the visibility, and restore the distortion in color and texture. Existing methods usually pay more attention to improving the visibility and contrast via increasing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Huake Wang , Xiaoyang Yan , Xingsong Hou , Junhui Li , Yujie Dun , Kaibing Zhang

Consumer-grade camera systems often struggle to maintain stable image quality under complex illumination conditions such as low light, high dynamic range, and backlighting, as well as spatial color temperature variation. These issues lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Fuchen Li , Yansong Du , Wenbo Cheng , Xiaoxia Zhou , Sen Yin

Deep learning on an edge device requires energy efficient operation due to ever diminishing power budget. Intentional low quality data during the data acquisition for longer battery life, and natural noise from the low cost sensor degrade…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Taesik Na , Minah Lee , Burhan A. Mudassar , Priyabrata Saha , Jong Hwan Ko , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Low-light image enhancement presents two primary challenges: 1) Significant variations in low-light images across different conditions, and 2) Enhancement levels influenced by subjective preferences and user intent. To address these issues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Ming Zhao , Pingping Liu , Tongshun Zhang , Zhe Zhang

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve an image's visibility while keeping its visual naturalness. Different from existing methods tending to accomplish the relighting task directly by ignoring the fidelity and naturalness recovery, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Kui Jiang , Zhongyuan Wang , Zheng Wang , Chen Chen , Peng Yi , Tao Lu , Chia-Wen Lin

Real-world image super-resolution is a practical image restoration problem that aims to obtain high-quality images from in-the-wild input, has recently received considerable attention with regard to its tremendous application potentials.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Hao Li , Jinghui Qin , Zhijing Yang , Pengxu Wei , Jinshan Pan , Liang Lin , Yukai Shi

We propose a novel unsupervised backlit image enhancement method, abbreviated as CLIP-LIT, by exploring the potential of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) for pixel-level image enhancement. We show that the open-world CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Zhexin Liang , Chongyi Li , Shangchen Zhou , Ruicheng Feng , Chen Change Loy

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

Blind image restoration (IR) is a common yet challenging problem in computer vision. Classical model-based methods and recent deep learning (DL)-based methods represent two different methodologies for this problem, each with their own…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Zongsheng Yue , Hongwei Yong , Qian Zhao , Lei Zhang , Deyu Meng , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Under certain statistical assumptions of noise, recent self-supervised approaches for denoising have been introduced to learn network parameters without true clean images, and these methods can restore an image by exploiting information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Seunghwan Lee , Donghyeon Cho , Jiwon Kim , Tae Hyun Kim

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

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is a promising approach for synthesizing novel views, given a set of images and the corresponding camera poses of a scene. However, images photographed from a low-light scene can hardly be used to train a NeRF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Haoyuan Wang , Xiaogang Xu , Ke Xu , Rynson WH. Lau

Existing deep learning-based low-light enhancement methods are typically trained on limited datasets with single enhancement targets, which restricts their generalization ability and controllability in real-world applications. To overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yufeng Yang , Jianzhuang Liu , Jisheng Chu , Yuqi Peng , Xianfang Zeng , Jiancheng Huang , Shifeng Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently become the leading method for low-light image enhancement (LLIE). However, despite significant progress, their outputs may still exhibit issues such as amplified noise, incorrect white balance, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Zhihua Wang , Yu Long , Qinghua Lin , Kai Zhang , Yazhu Zhang , Yuming Fang , Li Liu , Xiaochun Cao

This paper considers matching images of low-light scenes, aiming to widen the frontier of SfM and visual SLAM applications. Recent image sensors can record the brightness of scenes with more than eight-bit precision, available in their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Wenzheng Song , Masanori Suganuma , Xing Liu , Noriyuki Shimobayashi , Daisuke Maruta , Takayuki Okatani

It is widely acknowledged that single image super-resolution (SISR) methods would not perform well if the assumed degradation model deviates from those in real images. Although several degradation models take additional factors into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Kai Zhang , Jingyun Liang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Diffusion models excel at image restoration via probabilistic modeling of forward noise addition and reverse denoising, and their ability to handle complex noise while preserving fine details makes them well-suited for Low-Light Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ying Liu , Junchao Zhang , Caiyun Wu