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Under challenging light conditions, captured images often suffer from various degradations, leading to a decline in the performance of vision-based applications. Although numerous methods have been proposed to enhance image quality, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jing Tao , You Li , Banglei Guan , Yang Shang , Qifeng Yu

Low-light image enhancement (LLE) aims to improve the visual quality of images captured in poorly lit conditions, which often suffer from low brightness, low contrast, noise, and color distortions. These issues hinder the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Junyu Xia , Jiesong Bai , Yihang Dong

Low-light image enhancement is a crucial preprocessing task for some complex vision tasks. Target detection, image segmentation, and image recognition outcomes are all directly impacted by the impact of image enhancement. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mengfei Wu , Xucheng Xue , Taiji Lan , Xinwei Xu

Images captured under low-light conditions are often plagued by several challenges, including diminished contrast, increased noise, loss of fine details, and unnatural color reproduction. These factors can significantly hinder the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Miao Zhang , Yiqing Shen , Shenghui Zhong

Retinex theory provides a principled foundation for low-light image enhancement, inspiring numerous learning-based methods that integrate its principles. However, existing methods exhibits limitations in accurately decomposing reflectance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bolun Zheng , Qingshan Lei , Quan Chen , Qianyu Zhang , Kainan Yu , Xu Jia , Lingyu Zhu

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

Low-light image enhancement is challenging in that it needs to consider not only brightness recovery but also complex issues like color distortion and noise, which usually hide in the dark. Simply adjusting the brightness of a low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Feifan Lv , Yu Li , Feng Lu

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

In this paper, we propose a diffusion-based unsupervised framework that incorporates physically explainable Retinex theory with diffusion models for low-light image enhancement, named LightenDiffusion. Specifically, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Hai Jiang , Ao Luo , Xiaohong Liu , Songchen Han , Shuaicheng Liu

Retinex model is an effective tool for low-light image enhancement. It assumes that observed images can be decomposed into the reflectance and illumination. Most existing Retinex-based methods have carefully designed hand-crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Chen Wei , Wenjing Wang , Wenhan Yang , Jiaying Liu

Images obtained under low-light conditions will seriously affect the quality of the images. Solving the problem of poor low-light image quality can effectively improve the visual quality of images and better improve the usability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yonglong Jiang , Liangliang Li , Yuan Xue , Hongbing Ma

Images captured under low-light scenarios often suffer from low quality. Previous CNN-based deep learning methods often involve using Retinex theory. Nevertheless, most of them cannot perform well in more complicated datasets like LOL-v2…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jingcheng Li , Ye Qiao , Haocheng Xu , Sitao Huang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is an ill-posed inverse problem due to the lack of knowledge of the desired image which is obtained under ideal illumination conditions. Low-light conditions give rise to two main issues: a suppressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Mustafa Ozcan , Hamza Ergezer , Mustafa Ayazaoglu

Low-light image denoising and enhancement are challenging, especially when traditional noise assumptions, such as Gaussian noise, do not hold in majority. In many real-world scenarios, such as low-light imaging, noise is signal-dependent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Isha Rao , Ratul Chakraborty , Sanjay Ghosh

Retinex-based low-light image enhancement benefits from separating reflectance and illumination, yet recent generative approaches often rely on iterative sampling and are difficult to deploy under strict latency budgets. Consistency models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jian Xu , Wei Chen , Shigui Li , Delu Zeng , John Paisley , Qibin Zhao

Prior-based methods for low-light image enhancement often face challenges in extracting available prior information from dim images. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a simple yet effective Retinex model with the proposed edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Chaoyan Huang , Zhongming Wu , Tieyong Zeng

Two difficulties here make low-light image enhancement a challenging task; firstly, it needs to consider not only luminance restoration but also image contrast, image denoising and color distortion issues simultaneously. Second, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Wenchao Li , Bangshu Xiong , Qiaofeng Ou , Xiaoyun Long , Jinhao Zhu , Jiabao Chen , Shuyuan Wen

Low-light image enhancement aims to restore the under-exposure image captured in dark scenarios. Under such scenarios, traditional frame-based cameras may fail to capture the structure and color information due to the exposure time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xuejian Guo , Zhiqiang Tian , Yuehang Wang , Siqi Li , Yu Jiang , Shaoyi Du , Yue Gao

We present a novel dehazing and low-light enhancement method based on an illumination map that is accurately estimated by a convolutional neural network (CNN). In this paper, the illumination map is used as a component for three different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Guisik Kim , Junseok Kwon

A self-supervised adaptive low-light video enhancement method, called SALVE, is proposed in this work. SALVE first enhances a few key frames of an input low-light video using a retinex-based low-light image enhancement technique. For each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Zohreh Azizi , C. -C. Jay Kuo