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Enhancing a low-light noisy RAW image into a well-exposed and clean sRGB image is a significant challenge for modern digital cameras. Prior approaches have difficulties in recovering fine-grained details and true colors of the scene under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Qiang Wen , Zhefan Rao , Yazhou Xing , Qifeng Chen

Most sRGB-based LLIE methods suffer from entangled luminance and color, while the HSV color space offers insufficient decoupling at the cost of introducing significant red and black noise artifacts. Recently, the HVI color space has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhixin Cheng , Fangwen Zhang , Xiaotian Yin , Baoqun Yin , Haodian Wang

Low-light image enhancement is an essential computer vision task to improve image contrast and to decrease the effects of color bias and noise. Many existing interpretable deep-learning algorithms exploit the Retinex theory as the basis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jing-Yi Shi , Ming-Fei Li , Ling-An Wu

Convolutional neural network (CNN) based image enhancement methods such as super-resolution and detail enhancement have achieved remarkable performances. However, amounts of operations including convolution and parameters within the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Sangwook Baek , Yongsup Park , Youngo Park , Jungmin Lee , Kwangpyo Choi

Night Photography Rendering (NPR) poses a significant challenge due to the extreme contrast between dark and illuminated areas in scenes, stemming from concurrent capture of severely dark regions alongside intense point light sources.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Furkan Kınlı

Given a degraded input image, image restoration aims to recover the missing high-quality image content. Numerous applications demand effective image restoration, e.g., computational photography, surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-04 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Ling Shao

Most of the traditional work on intrinsic image decomposition rely on deriving priors about scene characteristics. On the other hand, recent research use deep learning models as in-and-out black box and do not consider the well-established,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Anil S. Baslamisli , Hoang-An Le , Theo Gevers

Medical imaging plays a significant role in detecting and treating various diseases. However, these images often happen to be of too poor quality, leading to decreased efficiency, extra expenses, and even incorrect diagnoses. Therefore, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Alnur Alimanov , Md Baharul Islam

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 (LLIE) aims at improving the perception or interpretability of an image captured in an environment with poor illumination. Recent advances in this area are dominated by deep learning-based solutions, where many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Chongyi Li , Chunle Guo , Linghao Han , Jun Jiang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jinwei Gu , Chen Change Loy

Previous raw image-based low-light image enhancement methods predominantly relied on feed-forward neural networks to learn deterministic mappings from low-light to normally-exposed images. However, they failed to capture critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yufei Wang , Yi Yu , Wenhan Yang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

The ability to capture good quality images in the dark and near-zero lux conditions has been a long-standing pursuit of the computer vision community. The seminal work by Chen et al. [5] has especially caused renewed interest in this area,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Mohit Lamba , Atul Balaji , Kaushik Mitra

Learning to recover clear images from images having a combination of degrading factors is a challenging task. That being said, autonomous surveillance in low visibility conditions caused by high pollution/smoke, poor air quality index, low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Esha Pahwa , Achleshwar Luthra , Pratik Narang

Low-light images often suffer from low contrast, noise, and color distortion, degrading visual quality and impairing downstream vision tasks. We propose a novel conditional diffusion framework for low-light image enhancement that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xuanshuo Fu , Lei Kang , Javier Vazquez-Corral

Detecting objects in low-light scenarios presents a persistent challenge, as detectors trained on well-lit data exhibit significant performance degradation on low-light data due to low visibility. Previous methods mitigate this issue by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhipeng Du , Miaojing Shi , Jiankang Deng

The acquisition of paired low-light video sequences remains challenging due to issues associated with poor temporal consistency, varying illumination characteristics and camera parameters. This has driven significant interest in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Yini Li , Louis Forster , David Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Diffusion model-based low-light image enhancement methods rely heavily on paired training data, leading to limited extensive application. Meanwhile, existing unsupervised methods lack effective bridging capabilities for unknown degradation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jinhong He , Minglong Xue , Aoxiang Ning , Chengyun Song

Images acquired during underwater activities suffer from environmental properties of the water, such as turbidity and light attenuation. These phenomena cause color distortion, blurring, and contrast reduction. In addition, irregular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Claudio D. Mello , Bryan U. Moreira , Paulo J. O. Evald , Paulo L. Drews , Silvia S. Botelho

Noise, artifacts, and over-exposure are significant challenges in the field of low-light image enhancement. Existing methods often struggle to address these issues simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a novel Retinex-based method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yu Wang , Yihong Wang , Tong Liu , Xiubao Sui , Qian Chen

Low-light images suffer from complex degradation, and existing enhancement methods often encode all degradation factors within a single latent space. This leads to highly entangled features and strong black-box characteristics, making the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Shuangli Du , Siming Yan , Zhenghao Shi , Zhenzhen You , Lu Sun