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In recent years, significant progress has been made in image recognition technology based on deep neural networks. However, improving recognition performance under low-light conditions remains a significant challenge. This study addresses…

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Light adaptation or brightness correction is a key step in improving the contrast and visual appeal of an image. There are multiple light-related tasks (for example, low-light enhancement and exposure correction) and previous studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Kai-Fu Yang , Cheng Cheng , Shi-Xuan Zhao , Xian-Shi Zhang , Yong-Jie Li

In the field of low-light image enhancement, both traditional Retinex methods and advanced deep learning techniques such as Retinexformer have shown distinct advantages and limitations. Traditional Retinex methods, designed to mimic the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jiesong Bai , Yuhao Yin , Qiyuan He , Yuanxian Li , Xiaofeng Zhang

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the perception of images collected in dim environments and provide high-quality data support for image recognition tasks. When dealing with photos captured under non-uniform illumination, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xiao Fang , Xin Gao , Baofeng Li , Feng Zhai , Yu Qin , Zhihang Meng , Jiansheng Lu , Chun Xiao

Retinex model has been applied to low-light image enhancement in many existing methods. More appropriate decomposition of a low-light image can help achieve better image enhancement. In this paper, we propose a new pixel-level non-local…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Hao Hou , Yingkun Hou , Yuxuan Shi , Benzheng Wei , Jun Xu

Images captured underwater often suffer from suboptimal illumination settings that can hide important visual features, reducing their quality. We present a novel single-image low-light underwater image enhancer, L^2UWE, that builds on our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Tunai Porto Marques , Alexandra Branzan Albu

Low-Light Image Enhancement is a computer vision task which intensifies the dark images to appropriate brightness. It can also be seen as an ill-posed problem in image restoration domain. With the success of deep neural networks, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Chi-Mao Fan , Tsung-Jung Liu , Kuan-Hsien Liu

Image degradation is a prevalent issue in various real-world applications, affecting visual quality and downstream processing tasks. In this study, we propose a novel framework that employs a Vision-Language Model (VLM) to automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jie Cai , Kangning Yang , Jiaming Ding , Lan Fu , Ling Ouyang , Jiang Li , Jinglin Shen , Zibo Meng

This paper presents a novel method, Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation (Zero-DCE), which formulates light enhancement as a task of image-specific curve estimation with a deep network. Our method trains a lightweight deep network, DCE-Net,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Chongyi Li , Chunle Guo , Chen Change Loy

Existing low-light image enhancement techniques are mostly not only difficult to deal with both visual quality and computational efficiency but also commonly invalid in unknown complex scenarios. In this paper, we develop a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Long Ma , Tengyu Ma , Risheng Liu , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) restores the color and brightness of underexposed images. Supervised methods suffer from high costs in collecting low/normal-light image pairs. Unsupervised methods invest substantial effort in crafting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Yinghao Song , Zhiyuan Cao , Wanhong Xiang , Sifan Long , Bo Yang , Hongwei Ge , Yanchun Liang , Chunguo Wu

Image enhancement is a technique that frequently utilized in digital image processing. In recent years, the popularity of learning-based techniques for enhancing the aesthetic performance of photographs has increased. However, the majority…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zinuo Li , Xuhang Chen , Chi-Man Pun , Shuqiang Wang

Poor image quality in low light images may result in a reduced number of feature matching between images. In this paper, we investigate the performance of feature extraction algorithms in low light environments. To find an optimal setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Pranjay Shyam , Antyanta Bangunharcana , Kyung-Soo Kim

Low-light image enhancement exhibits an ill-posed nature, as a given image may have many enhanced versions, yet recent studies focus on building a deterministic mapping from input to an enhanced version. In contrast, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Xiaopeng Sun , Muxingzi Li , Tianyu He , Lubin Fan

Transformer-based low-light enhancement methods have yielded promising performance by effectively capturing long-range dependencies in a global context. However, their elevated computational demand limits the scalability of multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xuanqi Zhang , Haijin Zeng , Jinwang Pan , Qiangqiang Shen , Yongyong Chen

Many learning-based low-light image enhancement (LLIE) algorithms are based on the Retinex theory. However, the Retinex-based decomposition techniques in such models introduce corruptions which limit their enhancement performance. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhihao Zheng , Mooi Choo Chuah

In nighttime circumstances, it is challenging for individuals and machines to perceive their surroundings. While prevailing image restoration methods adeptly handle singular forms of degradation, they falter when confronted with intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yifan Chen , Fei Yin , Chunle Guo , Chongyi Li , Yujiu Yang

The following three factors restrict the application of existing low-light image enhancement methods: unpredictable brightness degradation and noise, inherent gap between metric-favorable and visual-friendly versions, and the limited paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Shuzhou Yang , Moxuan Ding , Yanmin Wu , Zihan Li , Jian Zhang

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

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve illumination while preserving high-quality color and texture. However, existing methods often fail to extract reliable feature representations due to severely degraded pixel-level…

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