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Supervised networks address the task of low-light enhancement using paired images. However, collecting a wide variety of low-light/clean paired images is tedious as the scene needs to remain static during imaging. In this paper, we propose…

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Imaging through dense fog presents unique challenges, with essential visual information crucial for applications like object detection and recognition obscured, thereby hindering conventional image processing methods. Despite improvements…

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To reconstruct spectral signals from multi-channel observations, in particular trichromatic RGBs, has recently emerged as a promising alternative to traditional scanning-based spectral imager. It has been proven that the reconstruction…

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Existing single-image denoising algorithms often struggle to restore details when dealing with complex noisy images. The introduction of near-infrared (NIR) images offers new possibilities for RGB image denoising. However, due to the…

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Enhancing scene understanding in adverse visibility conditions remains a critical challenge for surveillance and autonomous navigation systems. Conventional imaging modalities, such as RGB and thermal infrared (MWIR / LWIR), when fused,…

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All existing image enhancement methods, such as HDR tone mapping, cannot recover A/D quantization losses due to insufficient or excessive lighting, (underflow and overflow problems). The loss of image details due to A/D quantization is…

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Removing the effect of illumination variation in images has been proved to be beneficial in many computer vision applications such as object recognition and semantic segmentation. Although generating illumination-invariant images has been…

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A small ISO and a small exposure time are usually used to capture an image in the back or low light conditions which results in an image with negligible motion blur and small noise but look dark. In this paper, a single image brightening…

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A novel method of contrast enhancement is proposed for underexposed images, in which heavy noise is hidden. Under low light conditions, images taken by digital cameras have low contrast in dark or bright regions. This is due to a limited…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Chien-Cheng Chien , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

High-quality image acquisition in real-world environments remains challenging due to complex illumination variations and inherent limitations of camera imaging pipelines. These issues are exacerbated in multi-view capture, where differences…

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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…

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RAW images are unprocessed camera sensor output with sensor-specific RGB values based on the sensor's color filter spectral sensitivities. RAW images also incur strong color casts due to the sensor's response to the spectral properties of…

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Image acquisition in low-light conditions suffers from poor quality and significant degradation in visual aesthetics. This affects the visual perception of the acquired image and the performance of various computer vision and image…

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A low-light image enhancement is a highly demanded image processing technique, especially for consumer digital cameras and cameras on mobile phones. In this paper, a gradient-based low-light image enhancement algorithm is proposed. The key…

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Infrared (IR) imaging offers advantages in several fields due to its unique ability of capturing content in extreme light conditions. However, the demanding hardware requirements of high-resolution IR sensors limit its widespread…

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This paper introduces a novel lightweight computational framework for enhancing images under low-light conditions, utilizing advanced machine learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional enhancement techniques often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhuoheng Li , Yuheng Pan , Houcheng Yu , Zhiheng Zhang

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

Night photography often struggles with challenges like low light and blurring, stemming from dark environments and prolonged exposures. Current methods either disregard priors and directly fitting end-to-end networks, leading to…

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