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Image contrast enhancement for outdoor vision is important for smart car auxiliary transport systems. The video frames captured in poor weather conditions are often characterized by poor visibility. Most image dehazing algorithms consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Huimin Lu , Yujie Li , Shota Nakashima , Seiichi Serikawa

Due to the low accuracy of object detection and recognition in many intelligent surveillance systems at nighttime, the quality of night images is crucial. Compared with the corresponding daytime image, nighttime image is characterized as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Xinyi Bai , Steffi Agino Priyanka , Hsiao-Jung Tung , Yuankai Wang

Low-light image enhancement is generally regarded as a challenging task in image processing, especially for the complex visual tasks at night or weakly illuminated. In order to reduce the blurs or noises on the low-light images, a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Yangming Shi , Xiaopo Wu , Ming Zhu

Deep learning-based low-light image enhancers have made significant progress in recent years, with a trend towards achieving satisfactory visual quality while gradually reducing the number of parameters and improving computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Nan An , Long Ma , Guangchao Han , Xin Fan , RIsheng Liu

Extremely low-light text images are common in natural scenes, making scene text detection and recognition challenging. One solution is to enhance these images using low-light image enhancement methods before text extraction. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Che-Tsung Lin , Chun Chet Ng , Zhi Qin Tan , Wan Jun Nah , Xinyu Wang , Jie Long Kew , Pohao Hsu , Shang Hong Lai , Chee Seng Chan , Christopher Zach

Low-light conditions have an adverse impact on machine cognition, limiting the performance of computer vision systems in real life. Since low-light data is limited and difficult to annotate, we focus on image processing to enhance low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Igor Morawski , Kai He , Shusil Dangi , Winston H. Hsu

Existing instance segmentation techniques are primarily tailored for high-visibility inputs, but their performance significantly deteriorates in extremely low-light environments. In this work, we take a deep look at instance segmentation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Linwei Chen , Ying Fu , Kaixuan Wei , Dezhi Zheng , Felix Heide

Low-light images frequently occur due to unavoidable environmental influences or technical limitations, such as insufficient lighting or limited exposure time. To achieve better visibility for visual perception, low-light image enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Shilv Cai , Liqun Chen , Sheng Zhong , Luxin Yan , Jiahuan Zhou , Xu Zou

In low-light conditions, a conventional camera imaging pipeline produces sub-optimal images that are usually dark and noisy due to a low photon count and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We present a data-driven approach that learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

It is suggested that low-light image enhancement realizes one-to-many mapping since we have different definitions of NORMAL-light given application scenarios or users' aesthetic. However, most existing methods ignore subjectivity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Ya'nan Wang , Zhuqing Jiang , Chang Liu , Kai Li , Aidong Men , Haiying Wang

Localizing text in low-light environments is challenging due to visual degradations. Although a straightforward solution involves a two-stage pipeline with low-light image enhancement (LLE) as the initial step followed by detector, LLE is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Chengpei Xu , Hao Fu , Long Ma , Wenjing Jia , Chengqi Zhang , Feng Xia , Xiaoyu Ai , Binghao Li , Wenjie Zhang

Real-time low-light image enhancement on mobile and embedded devices requires models that balance visual quality and computational efficiency. Existing deep learning methods often rely on large networks and labeled datasets, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guangrui Bai , Hailong Yan , Wenhai Liu , Yahui Deng , Erbao Dong

In surveillance, monitoring and tactical reconnaissance, gathering the right visual information from a dynamic environment and accurately processing such data are essential ingredients to making informed decisions which determines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Kin Gwn Lore , Adedotun Akintayo , Soumik Sarkar

Face detection in low light scenarios is challenging but vital to many practical applications, e.g., surveillance video, autonomous driving at night. Most existing face detectors heavily rely on extensive annotations, while collecting data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Wenjing Wang , Wenhan Yang , Jiaying Liu

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a fundamental task in computational photography, aiming to improve illumination, reduce noise, and enhance image quality. While recent advancements focus on designing increasingly complex neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Tong Li , Lizhi Wang , Hansen Feng , Lin Zhu , Hua Huang

Low-light image enhancement is an important task in computer vision, essential for improving the visibility and quality of images captured in non-optimal lighting conditions. Inadequate illumination can lead to significant information loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ezequiel Perez-Zarate , Oscar Ramos-Soto , Chunxiao Liu , Diego Oliva , Marco Perez-Cisneros

This paper addresses the issue of detecting point objects in a clutter background and estimating their position by image processing. We are interested in the specific context where the object signature significantly varies with its random…

Applications · Statistics 2009-11-09 Vincent Samson , Frédéric Champagnat , Jean-François Giovannelli

Yes - This study investigates the impact of commonplace lossy image compression on face recognition algorithms with regard to the racial characteristics of the subject. We adopt a recently proposed racial phenotype-based bias analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Seyma Yucer , Matt Poyser , Noura Al Moubayed , Toby P. Breckon

Low-light is an inescapable element of our daily surroundings that greatly affects the efficiency of our vision. Research works on low-light has seen a steady growth, particularly in the field of image enhancement, but there is still a lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Yuen Peng Loh , Chee Seng Chan

In this paper, we study the problem of making brighter images from dark images found in the wild. The images are dark because they are taken in dim environments. They suffer from color shifts caused by quantization and from sensor noise. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Sara Aghajanzadeh , David Forsyth