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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…

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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

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

Image restoration is a low-level visual task, and most CNN methods are designed as black boxes, lacking transparency and intrinsic aesthetics. Many unsupervised approaches ignore the degradation of visible information in low-light scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Qihan Zhao , Xiaofeng Zhang , Hao Tang , Chaochen Gu , Shanying Zhu

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

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

We introduce Adaptive Guided Upsampling (AGU), an efficient method for upscaling low-light images capable of optimizing multiple image quality characteristics at the same time, such as reducing noise and increasing sharpness. It is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Angela Vivian Dcosta , Chunbo Song , Rafael Radkowski

Low-light image enhancement is challenging due to complex degradations, including amplified noise, artifacts, and color distortion. While Retinex-based deep learning methods have achieved promising results, they primarily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Youssef Aboelwafa , Hicham G. Elmongui , Marwan Torki

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

Imaging in low light is challenging due to low photon count and low SNR. Short-exposure images suffer from noise, while long exposure can induce blur and is often impractical. A variety of denoising, deblurring, and enhancement techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Chen Chen , Qifeng Chen , Jia Xu , Vladlen Koltun

Faithful manipulation of shape, material, and illumination in 2D Internet images would greatly benefit from a reliable factorization of appearance into material (i.e., diffuse and specular) and illumination (i.e., environment maps). On the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Tuanfeng Y. Wang , Tobias Ritschel , Niloy J. Mitra

We present a neural-based model for relighting a half-body portrait image by simply referring to another portrait image with the desired lighting condition. Rather than following classical inverse rendering methodology that involves…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Guoxian Song , Tat-Jen Cham , Jianfei Cai , Jianmin Zheng

Light field imaging extends the traditional photography by capturing both spatial and angular distribution of light, which enables new capabilities, including post-capture refocusing, post-capture aperture control, and depth estimation from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 M. Shahzeb Khan Gul , Bahadir K. Gunturk

Image relighting is to change the illumination of an image to a target illumination effect without known the original scene geometry, material information and illumination condition. We propose a novel outdoor scene relighting method, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Xin Jin , Yannan Li , Ningning Liu , Xiaodong Li , Xianggang Jiang , Chaoen Xiao , Shiming Ge

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the illumination and visibility of dark images with lighting noise. To handle the real-world low-light images often with heavy and complex noise, some efforts have been made for joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jiahuan Ren , Zhao Zhang , Richang Hong , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang , Shuicheng Yan

In recent years, deep learning has achieved remarkable success in the field of image restoration. However, most convolutional neural network-based methods typically focus on a single scale, neglecting the incorporation of multi-scale…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Jiatao Jiang , Zhen Cui , Chunyan Xu , Jian Yang

With the development of deep learning, numerous methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) have demonstrated remarkable performance. Mainstream LLIE methods typically learn an end-to-end mapping based on pairs of low-light and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jiahui Tang , Kaihua Zhou , Zhijian Luo , Yueen Hou

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable progress in enhancing low-light images by improving their brightness and eliminating noise. However, most existing methods construct end-to-end mapping networks heuristically, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Naishan Zheng , Man Zhou , Yanmeng Dong , Xiangyu Rui , Jie Huang , Chongyi Li , Feng Zhao

Synthesizing normal-light novel views from low-light multiview images is an important yet challenging task, given the low visibility and high ISO noise present in the input images. Existing low-light enhancement methods often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Ze Li , Feng Zhang , Xiatian Zhu , Meng Zhang , Yanghong Zhou , P. Y. Mok

Existing low-light image enhancement methods are difficult to fit the complex nonlinear relationship between normal and low-light images due to uneven illumination and noise effects. The recently proposed Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Aoxiang Ning , Minglong Xue , Jinhong He , Chengyun Song