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The 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 2020-03-24 Chunle Guo , Chongyi Li , Jichang Guo , Chen Change Loy , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Runmin Cong

We present IllumFlow, a novel framework that synergizes conditional Rectified Flow (CRF) with Retinex theory for low-light image enhancement (LLIE). Our model addresses low-light enhancement through separate optimization of illumination and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Wenyang Wei , Yang yang , Xixi Jia , Xiangchu Feng , Weiwei Wang , Renzhen Wang

The limited dynamic range of commercial compact camera sensors results in an inaccurate representation of scenes with varying illumination conditions, adversely affecting image quality and subsequently limiting the performance of underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Pranjay Shyam , Sandeep Singh Sengar , Kuk-Jin Yoon , Kyung-Soo Kim

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Masayuki Tanaka , Takashi Shibata , Masatoshi Okutomi

Real-world low-light images suffer from two main degradations, namely, inevitable noise and poor visibility. Since the noise exhibits different levels, its estimation has been implemented in recent works when enhancing low-light images from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Chuanjun Zheng , Daming Shi , Wentian Shi

In this paper, we make the first benchmark effort to elaborate on the superiority of using RAW images in the low light enhancement and develop a novel alternative route to utilize RAW images in a more flexible and practical way. Inspired by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Haofeng Huang , Wenhan Yang , Yueyu Hu , Jiaying Liu , Ling-Yu Duan

Images captured under real-world low-light conditions face significant challenges due to uneven ambient lighting, making it difficult for existing end-to-end methods to enhance images with a large dynamic range to normal exposure levels. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Haodian Wang , Yaqi Song

Enhancing the quality of low-light images plays a very important role in many image processing and multimedia applications. In recent years, a variety of deep learning techniques have been developed to address this challenging task. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-13 Long Ma , Risheng Liu , Jiaao Zhang , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

In this article, we address the challenges of image super-resolution and noise reduction, which are crucial for enhancing the quality of images derived from low-resolution or noisy data. We compared and assessed several approaches for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-06-17 Ngoc-Giau Pham , Thanh-Hai Tong Le , Van-Hieu Duong , Hong-Ngoc Tran , Phuoc-Hung Vo

Image restoration is a low-level vision task, most CNN methods are designed as a black box, lacking transparency and internal aesthetics. Although some methods combining traditional optimization algorithms with DNNs have been proposed, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiao Feng Zhang , Chao Chen Gu , Shan Ying Zhu

Image dehazing deals with the removal of undesired loss of visibility in outdoor images due to the presence of fog. Retinex is a color vision model mimicking the ability of the Human Visual System to robustly discount varying illuminations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Adrian Galdran , Aitor Alvarez-Gila , Alessandro Bria , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Marcelo Bertalmio

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a pervasive yet challenging problem, since: 1) low-light measurements may vary due to different imaging conditions in practice; 2) images can be enlightened subjectively according to diverse preferences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Rongkai Zhang , Lanqing Guo , Siyu Huang , Bihan Wen

In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture considering both local and global features for image enhancement. Most conventional image enhancement methods, including Retinex-based methods, cannot restore…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-09 Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

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

We present a lightweight two-stage framework for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) that achieves competitive perceptual quality with significantly fewer parameters than existing methods. Our approach combines frozen algorithm-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shimon Murai , Teppei Kurita , Ryuta Satoh , Yusuke Moriuchi

Deep learning based methods have achieved remarkable success in image restoration and enhancement, but most such methods rely on RGB input images. These methods fail to take into account the rich spectral distribution of natural images. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Harsh Sinha , Aditya Mehta , Murari Mandal , Pratik Narang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the illuminance of images due to insufficient light exposure. Recently, various lightweight learning-based LLIE methods have been proposed to handle the challenges of unfavorable prevailing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yuantong Zhang , Baoxin Teng , Daiqin Yang , Zhenzhong Chen , Haichuan Ma , Gang Li , Wenpeng Ding

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to restore natural visibility, color fidelity, and structural detail under severe illumination degradation. State-of-the-art (SOTA) LLIE techniques often rely on large models and multi-stage training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexandru Brateanu , Tingting Mu , Codruta Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti

Images taken in low light often show color shift, low contrast, noise, and other artifacts that hurt computer-vision accuracy. Retinex theory addresses this by viewing an image S as the pixel-wise product of reflectance R and illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sos Agaian , Vladimir Frants

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