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Recently remarkable progress has been made in synthesizing realistic human photos using text-to-image diffusion models. However, current approaches face degraded scenes, insufficient control, and suboptimal perceptual identity. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Maoye Ren , Praneetha Vaddamanu , Jianjin Xu , Fernando De la Torre Frade

Deep learning-based low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a task of leveraging deep neural networks to enhance the image illumination while keeping the image content unchanged. From the perspective of training data, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Zhao Zhang , Suiyi Zhao , Xiaojie Jin , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang , Shuicheng Yan , Meng Wang

Nowadays, due to advanced digital imaging technologies and internet accessibility to the public, the number of generated digital images has increased dramatically. Thus, the need for automatic image enhancement techniques is quite apparent.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Saeedeh Rezaee , Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri

The following three factors restrict the application of existing low-light image enhancement methods: unpredictable brightness degradation and noise, inherent gap between metric-favorable and visual-friendly versions, and the limited paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Shuzhou Yang , Moxuan Ding , Yanmin Wu , Zihan Li , Jian Zhang

Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve target images given a multimodal query (comprising a reference image and a modification text), without training on annotated triplets. Existing methods typically convert the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Tianyue Wang , Leigang Qu , Tianyu Yang , Xiangzhao Hao , Yifan Xu , Haiyun Guo , Jinqiao Wang

We present a novel approach to adjust global image properties such as colour, saturation, and luminance using human-interpretable image enhancement curves, inspired by the Photoshop curves tool. Our method, dubbed neural CURve Layers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Sean Moran , Steven McDonagh , Gregory Slabaugh

Automated image captioning has the potential to be a useful tool for people with vision impairments. Images taken by this user group are often noisy, which leads to incorrect and even unsafe model predictions. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Lu Yu , Malvina Nikandrou , Jiali Jin , Verena Rieser

Automatic photo adjustment is to mimic the photo retouching style of professional photographers and automatically adjust photos to the learned style. There have been many attempts to model the tone and the color adjustment globally with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Seonghyeon Nam , Seon Joo Kim

Image enhancement is an important image processing technique that processes images suitably for a specific application e.g. image editing. The conventional solutions of image enhancement are grouped into two categories which are spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Hui Li , Xiaomeng Wang , Weifeng Liu , Yanjiang Wang

Retouching can significantly elevate the visual appeal of photos, but many casual photographers lack the expertise to do this well. To address this problem, previous works have proposed automatic retouching systems based on supervised…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Yuanming Hu , Hao He , Chenxi Xu , Baoyuan Wang , Stephen Lin

Most existing image restoration methods use neural networks to learn strong image-level priors from huge data to estimate the lost information. However, these works still struggle in cases when images have severe information deficits.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yunpeng Bai , Cairong Wang , Shuzhao Xie , Chao Dong , Chun Yuan , Zhi Wang

This paper presents an interactive approach for multi-class segmentation of aerial images. Precisely, it is based on a deep neural network which exploits both RGB images and annotations. Starting from an initial output based on the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Gaston Lenczner , Bertrand Le Saux , Nicola Luminari , Adrien Chan Hon Tong , Guy Le Besnerais

Personalized image retouching aims to adapt retouching style of individual users from reference examples, but existing methods often require user-specific fine-tuning or fail to generalize effectively. To address these challenges, we…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Temesgen Muruts Weldengus , Binnan Liu , Fei Kou , Youwei Lyu , Jinwei Chen , Qingnan Fan , Changqing Zou

Common editing operations performed by professional photographers include the cleanup operations: de-emphasizing distracting elements and enhancing subjects. These edits are challenging, requiring a delicate balance between manipulating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 S. Mahdi H. Miangoleh , Zoya Bylinskii , Eric Kee , Eli Shechtman , Yağız Aksoy

The current industry practice for 24-hour outdoor imaging is to use a silicon camera supplemented with near-infrared (NIR) illumination. This will result in color images with poor contrast at daytime and absence of chrominance at nighttime.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Feifan Lv , Yinqiang Zheng , Yicheng Li , Feng Lu

The usage of digital content (photos and videos) in a variety of applications has increased due to the popularity of multimedia devices. These uses include advertising campaigns, educational resources, and social networking platforms. There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Muhammad Turab

Digital artists often improve the aesthetic quality of digital photographs through manual retouching. Beyond global adjustments, professional image editing programs provide local adjustment tools operating on specific parts of an image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Sean Moran , Pierre Marza , Steven McDonagh , Sarah Parisot , Gregory Slabaugh

The highly non-convex optimization landscape of modern lens design necessitates extensive human expertise, resulting in inefficiency and constrained design diversity. While automated methods are desirable, existing approaches remain limited…

This paper introduces a new data-driven, non-parametric method for image quality and aesthetics assessment, surpassing existing approaches and requiring no prompt engineering or fine-tuning. We eliminate the need for expressive textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Sergey Kastryulin , Denis Prokopenko , Artem Babenko , Dmitry V. Dylov

The lack of large-scale noisy-clean image pairs restricts supervised denoising methods' deployment in actual applications. While existing unsupervised methods are able to learn image denoising without ground-truth clean images, they either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yi Zhang , Dasong Li , Ka Lung Law , Xiaogang Wang , Hongwei Qin , Hongsheng Li