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Quanta image sensors, such as SPAD arrays, are an emerging sensor technology, producing 1-bit arrays representing photon detection events over exposures as short as a few nanoseconds. In practice, raw data are post-processed using heavy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Yehe Liu , Alexander Krull , Hector Basevi , Ales Leonardis , Michael W. Jenkins

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

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

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

This work demonstrates a novel, state of the art method to reconstruct colored images via the Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS). The DVS is an image sensor that indicates only a binary change in brightness, with no information about the captured…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Khen Cohen , Omer Hershko , Homer Levy , David Mendlovic , Dan Raviv

Deep learning-based image denoising approaches have been extensively studied in recent years, prevailing in many public benchmark datasets. However, the stat-of-the-art networks are computationally too expensive to be directly applied on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Yuzhi Wang , Haibin Huang , Qin Xu , Jiaming Liu , Yiqun Liu , Jue Wang

Low light conditions in aerial images adversely affect the performance of several vision based applications. There is a need for methods that can efficiently remove the low light attributes and assist in the performance of key vision tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Prateek Garg , Murari Mandal , Pratik Narang

This paper presents a novel Two-Stage Diffusion Model (TS-Diff) for enhancing extremely low-light RAW images. In the pre-training stage, TS-Diff synthesizes noisy images by constructing multiple virtual cameras based on a noise space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yi Li , Zhiyuan Zhang , Jiangnan Xia , Jianghan Cheng , Qilong Wu , Junwei Li , Yibin Tian , Hui Kong

Images captured in the low-light condition suffer from low visibility and various imaging artifacts, e.g., real noise. Existing supervised enlightening algorithms require a large set of pixel-aligned training image pairs, which are hard to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-11 Lanqing Guo , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Alex Kot , Bihan Wen

Recovering both amplitude and phase information from a system is a fundamental goal of optical imaging. At the same time, it is crucial to operate at low photon doses to avoid altering the sample, particularly in biological applications.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Alberto Paniate , Giuseppe Ortolano , Sarika Soman , Marco Genovese , Ivano Ruo-Berchera

The captured images under low light conditions often suffer insufficient brightness and notorious noise. Hence, low-light image enhancement is a key challenging task in computer vision. A variety of methods have been proposed for this task,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-22 Cheng Zhang , Qingsen Yan , Yu zhu , Xianjun Li , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

The design of deep learning methods for low light video enhancement remains a challenging problem owing to the difficulty in capturing low light and ground truth video pairs. This is particularly hard in the context of dynamic scenes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shivam Chhirolya , Sameer Malik , Rajiv Soundararajan

Low fluence illumination sources can facilitate clinical transition of photoacoustic imaging because they are rugged, portable, affordable, and safe. However, these sources also decrease image quality due to their low fluence. Here, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Ali Hariri , Kamran Alipour , Yash Mantri , Jurgen P. Schulze , Jesse V. Jokerst

Illumination using correlated photon sources has been established as an approach to allowing high-fidelity images to be reconstructed from noisy camera frames by taking advantage of the knowledge that signal photons are spatially correlated…

Images captured from low-light scenes often suffer from severe degradations, including low visibility, color cast and intensive noises, etc. These factors not only affect image qualities, but also degrade the performance of downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Risheng Liu , Long Ma , Tengyu Ma , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

In low-visibility marine environments characterized by turbidity and darkness, acoustic cameras serve as visual sensors capable of generating high-resolution 2D sonar images. However, acoustic camera images are interfered with by complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Xiaoteng Zhou , Katsunori Mizuno , Yilong Zhang

Nighttime photography encounters escalating challenges in extremely low-light conditions, primarily attributable to the ultra-low signal-to-noise ratio. For real-world deployment, a practical solution must not only produce visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Jiazhang Zheng , Lei Li , Qiuping Liao , Cheng Li , Li Li , Yangxing Liu

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is based on capturing the multi-bounce indirect reflections from the hidden objects. Active NLOS imaging systems rely on the capture of the time of flight of light through the scene, and have shown great…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Jiayong Peng , Fangzhou Mu , Ji Hyun Nam , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Yin Li , Andreas Velten , Zhiwei Xiong

Recovering a high-quality image from noisy indirect measurements is an important problem with many applications. For such inverse problems, supervised deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based denoising methods have shown strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Allard A. Hendriksen , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg

Removing noise from images, a.k.a image denoising, can be a very challenging task since the type and amount of noise can greatly vary for each image due to many factors including a camera model and capturing environments. While there have…

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