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Traffic light recognition, as a critical component of the perception module of self-driving vehicles, plays a vital role in the intelligent transportation systems. The prevalent deep learning based traffic light recognition methods heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Danfeng Wang , Xin Ma , Xiaodong Yang

Low-light images, characterized by inadequate illumination, pose challenges of diminished clarity, muted colors, and reduced details. Low-light image enhancement, an essential task in computer vision, aims to rectify these issues by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Hossein Shakibania , Sina Raoufi , Hassan Khotanlou

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a crucial task in computer vision aimed at enhancing the visual fidelity of images captured under low-illumination conditions. Conventional methods frequently struggle with noise, overexposure, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Namrah Siddiqua , Kim Suneung , Seong-Whan Lee

Absence of nearby light sources while capturing an image will degrade the visibility and quality of the captured image, making computer vision tasks difficult. In this paper, a color-wise attention network (CWAN) is proposed for low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yousef Atoum , Mao Ye , Liu Ren , Ying Tai , Xiaoming Liu

In this work, we aim to learn an unpaired image enhancement model, which can enrich low-quality images with the characteristics of high-quality images provided by users. We propose a quality attention generative adversarial network (QAGAN)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Zhangkai Ni , Wenhan Yang , Shiqi Wang , Lin Ma , Sam Kwong

Low light image enhancement is an important challenge for the development of robust computer vision algorithms. The machine learning approaches to this have been either unsupervised, supervised based on paired dataset or supervised based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Harshana Weligampola , Gihan Jayatilaka , Suren Sritharan , Roshan Godaliyadda , Parakrama Ekanayaka , Roshan Ragel , Vijitha Herath

Recent GAN-based (Generative adversarial networks) inpainting methods show remarkable improvements and generate plausible images using multi-stage networks or Contextual Attention Modules (CAM). However, these techniques increase the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Mohamed Abbas Hedjazi , Yakup Genc

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) produce impressive results on unconditional image generation when powered with large-scale image datasets. Yet generated images are still easy to spot especially on datasets with high variance (e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Ning Yu , Guilin Liu , Aysegul Dundar , Andrew Tao , Bryan Catanzaro , Larry Davis , Mario Fritz

Generative adversarial network (GAN) for image super-resolution (SR) has attracted enormous interests in recent years. However, the GAN-based SR methods only use image discriminator to distinguish SR images and high-resolution (HR) images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Xuan Zhu , Yue Cheng , Jinye Peng , Rongzhi Wang , Mingnan Le , Xin Liu

Document image enhancement and binarization are commonly performed prior to document analysis and recognition tasks for improving the efficiency and accuracy of optical character recognition (OCR) systems. This is because directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Rui-Yang Ju , KokSheik Wong , Yanlin Jin , Jen-Shiun Chiang

We propose a framework of generative adversarial networks with multiple discriminators, which collaborate to represent a real dataset more effectively. Our approach facilitates learning a generator consistent with the underlying data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jinyoung Choi , Bohyung Han

Due to the outstanding capability for data generation, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have attracted considerable attention in unsupervised learning. However, training GANs is difficult, since the training distribution is dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Haozhe Liu , Wentian Zhang , Bing Li , Haoqian Wu , Nanjun He , Yawen Huang , Yuexiang Li , Bernard Ghanem , Yefeng Zheng

The fact that image datasets are often imbalanced poses an intense challenge for deep learning techniques. In this paper, we propose a method to restore the balance in imbalanced images, by coalescing two concurrent methods, generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Linlin Shen , Abdul Hamid Sadka , Jie Yang

In this paper, we present a novel low-light image enhancement method called dark region-aware low-light image enhancement (DALE), where dark regions are accurately recognized by the proposed visual attention module and their brightness are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-31 Dokyeong Kwon , Guisik Kim , Junseok Kwon

Supervised networks address the task of low-light enhancement using paired images. However, collecting a wide variety of low-light/clean paired images is tedious as the scene needs to remain static during imaging. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Praveen Kandula , Maitreya Suin , A. N. Rajagopalan

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

Unsupervised learning based multi-scale exposure fusion (ULMEF) is efficient for fusing differently exposed low dynamic range (LDR) images into a higher quality LDR image for a high dynamic range (HDR) scene. Unlike supervised learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Chaobing Zheng , Shiqian Wu , Zhenggguo Li

Multi-domain image-to-image translation with conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can generate highly photo realistic images with desired target classes, yet these synthetic images have not always been helpful to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Suman Sapkota , Bidur Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Bishesh Khanal , Tae-Kyun Kim

Generating images via the generative adversarial network (GAN) has attracted much attention recently. However, most of the existing GAN-based methods can only produce low-resolution images of limited quality. Directly generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Yong Guo , Qi Chen , Jian Chen , Qingyao Wu , Qinfeng Shi , Mingkui Tan

Images acquired in low-light environments present significant obstacles for computer vision systems and human perception, especially for applications requiring accurate object recognition and scene analysis. Such images typically manifest…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Bibhabasu Debnath , Sahana Ray , Sanjay Ghosh