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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

Existing unpaired low-light image enhancement approaches prefer to employ the two-way GAN framework, in which two CNN generators are deployed for enhancement and degradation separately. However, such data-driven models ignore the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jize Zhang , Haolin Wang , Xiaohe Wu , Wangmeng Zuo

The extremes of lighting (e.g. too much or too little light) usually cause many troubles for machine and human vision. Many recent works have mainly focused on under-exposure cases where images are often captured in low-light conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Hue Nguyen , Diep Tran , Khoi Nguyen , Rang Nguyen

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

Enhancing low-light images while maintaining natural colors is a challenging problem due to camera processing variations and limited access to photos with ground-truth lighting conditions. The latter is a crucial factor for supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wojciech Kozłowski , Michał Szachniewicz , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba

Low-light images challenge both human perceptions and computer vision algorithms. It is crucial to make algorithms robust to enlighten low-light images for computational photography and computer vision applications such as real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Shen Zheng , Gaurav Gupta

Images taken under low-light conditions tend to suffer from poor visibility, which can decrease image quality and even reduce the performance of the downstream tasks. It is hard for a CNN-based method to learn generalized features that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yi Huang , Xiaoguang Tu , Gui Fu , Tingting Liu , Bokai Liu , Ming Yang , Ziliang Feng

Existing methods for enhancing dark images captured in a very low-light environment assume that the intensity level of the optimal output image is known and already included in the training set. However, this assumption often does not hold,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Evgeny Hershkovitch Neiterman , Michael Klyuchka , Gil Ben-Artzi

Nowadays, deep learning techniques are widely used for lane detection, but application in low-light conditions remains a challenge until this day. Although multi-task learning and contextual-information-based methods have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Tong Liu , Zhaowei Chen , Yi Yang , Zehao Wu , Haowei Li

In recent years, significant progress has been made in image recognition technology based on deep neural networks. However, improving recognition performance under low-light conditions remains a significant challenge. This study addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Seitaro Ono , Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito , Masato Tsukada

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the perception or interpretability of an image captured in an environment with poor illumination. Recent advances in this area are dominated by deep learning-based solutions, where many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Chongyi Li , Chunle Guo , Linghao Han , Jun Jiang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jinwei Gu , Chen Change Loy

Autonomous vehicles and driving systems use scene parsing as an essential tool to understand the surrounding environment. Panoptic segmentation is a state-of-the-art technique which proves to be pivotal in this use case. Deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Ankur Chrungoo

Low-light hazy scenes commonly appear at dusk and early morning. The visual enhancement for low-light hazy images is an ill-posed problem. Even though numerous methods have been proposed for image dehazing and low-light enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Chaoqun Zhuang , Yunfei Liu , Sijia Wen , Feng Lu

This paper presents a generative adversarial network (GAN) based approach for radar image enhancement. Although radar sensors remain robust for operations under adverse weather conditions, their application in autonomous vehicles (AVs) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Thakshila Thilakanayake , Oscar De Silva , Thumeera R. Wanasinghe , George K. Mann , Awantha Jayasiri

While cloud/sky image segmentation has extensive real-world applications, a large amount of labelled data is needed to train a highly accurate models to perform the task. Scarcity of such volumes of cloud/sky images with corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Mayank Jain , Conor Meegan , Soumyabrata Dev

Night images suffer not only from low light, but also from uneven distributions of light. Most existing night visibility enhancement methods focus mainly on enhancing low-light regions. This inevitably leads to over enhancement and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yeying Jin , Wenhan Yang , Robby T. Tan

Low light conditions not only degrade human visual experience, but also reduce the performance of downstream machine analytics. Although many works have been designed for low-light enhancement or domain adaptive machine analytics, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Wenjing Wang , Zhengbo Xu , Haofeng Huang , Jiaying Liu

In digital imaging, enhancing visual content in poorly lit environments is a significant challenge, as images often suffer from inadequate brightness, hidden details, and an overall reduction in quality. This issue is especially critical in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Farzaneh Koohestani , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Poor lighting conditions significantly impact image quality, posing substantial challenges for image editing and visualization. Many existing enhancement methods aim at proposing complex models while neglecting the intrinsic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xuanshuo Fu , Lei Kang , Javier Vazquez-Corral

Currently, semantic segmentation shows remarkable efficiency and reliability in standard scenarios such as daytime scenes with favorable illumination conditions. However, in face of adverse conditions such as the nighttime, semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Lei Sun , Kaiwei Wang , Kailun Yang , Kaite Xiang