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Low-light images often suffer from limited visibility and multiple types of degradation, rendering low-light image enhancement (LIE) a non-trivial task. Some endeavors have been recently made to enhance low-light images using convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zixiang Wei , Yiting Wang , Lichao Sun , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Lin Wang

Low-light image enhancement is an important task in computer vision, essential for improving the visibility and quality of images captured in non-optimal lighting conditions. Inadequate illumination can lead to significant information loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ezequiel Perez-Zarate , Oscar Ramos-Soto , Chunxiao Liu , Diego Oliva , Marco Perez-Cisneros

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

We consider the generic deep image enhancement problem where an input image is transformed into a perceptually better-looking image. Recent methods for image enhancement consider the problem by performing style transfer and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Indra Deep Mastan , Shanmuganathan Raman

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

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve illumination while preserving high-quality color and texture. However, existing methods often fail to extract reliable feature representations due to severely degraded pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xu Wu , Zhihui Lai , Xianxu Hou , Jie Zhou , Ya-nan Zhang , Linlin Shen

Limited illumination often causes severe physical noise and detail degradation in images. Existing Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) methods frequently treat the enhancement process as a blind black-box mapping, overlooking the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tongshun Zhang , Pingping Liu , Yuqing Lei , Zixuan Zhong , Qiuzhan Zhou , Zhiyuan Zha

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the perception or interpretability of an image captured in an environment with poor illumination. With the advent of deep learning, the LLIE technique has achieved significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Yunhong Tao , Wenbing Tao , Xiang Xiang

Low-Light Enhancement (LLE) is aimed at improving the quality of photos/videos captured under low-light conditions. It is worth noting that most existing LLE methods do not take advantage of geometric modeling. We believe that incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yingqi Lin , Xiaogang Xu , Jiafei Wu , Yan Han , Zhe Liu

Developing effective approaches to generate enhanced results that align well with human visual preferences for high-quality well-lit images remains a challenge in low-light image enhancement (LLIE). In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiaorui Zhao , Xinyue Zhou , Peibei Cao , Junyu Lou , Shuhang Gu

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

The design of deep learning methods for low light video enhancement remains a challenging problem owing to the difficulty in capturing low light and ground truth video pairs. This is particularly hard in the context of dynamic scenes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shivam Chhirolya , Sameer Malik , Rajiv Soundararajan

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

Deep learning-based methods have made impressive progress in enhancing extremely low-light images - the image quality of the reconstructed images has generally improved. However, we found out that most of these methods could not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Pohao Hsu , Che-Tsung Lin , Chun Chet Ng , Jie-Long Kew , Mei Yih Tan , Shang-Hong Lai , Chee Seng Chan , Christopher Zach

Saliency detection methods are central to several real-world applications such as robot navigation and satellite imagery. However, the performance of existing methods deteriorate under low-light conditions because training datasets mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Kitty Varghese , Sudarshan Rajagopalan , Mohit Lamba , Kaushik Mitra

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) investigates how to improve illumination and produce normal-light images. The majority of existing methods improve low-light images via a global and uniform manner, without taking into account the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Yuhui Wu , Chen Pan , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Jiwei Wei , Chongyi Li , Heng Tao Shen

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

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the NTIRE 2025 Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) Challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and final outcomes. The objective of the challenge is to identify effective networks capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xiaoning Liu , Zongwei Wu , Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu , Hailong Yan , Bin Ren , Yulun Zhang , Shuhang Gu , Le Zhang , Ce Zhu , Radu Timofte , Kangbiao Shi , Yixu Feng , Tao Hu , Yu Cao , Peng Wu , Yijin Liang , Yanning Zhang , Qingsen Yan , Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Yan Min , Mohab Kishawy , Jun Chen , Pengpeng Yu , Anjin Park , Seung-Soo Lee , Young-Joon Park , Zixiao Hu , Junyv Liu , Huilin Zhang , Jun Zhang , Fei Wan , Bingxin Xu , Hongzhe Liu , Cheng Xu , Weiguo Pan , Songyin Dai , Xunpeng Yi , Qinglong Yan , Yibing Zhang , Jiayi Ma , Changhui Hu , Kerui Hu , Donghang Jing , Tiesheng Chen , Zhi Jin , Hongjun Wu , Biao Huang , Haitao Ling , Jiahao Wu , Dandan Zhan , G Gyaneshwar Rao , Vijayalaxmi Ashok Aralikatti , Nikhil Akalwadi , Ramesh Ashok Tabib , Uma Mudenagudi , Ruirui Lin , Guoxi Huang , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Qirui Yang , Alexandru Brateanu , Ciprian Orhei , Cosmin Ancuti , Daniel Feijoo , Juan C. Benito , Álvaro García , Marcos V. Conde , Yang Qin , Raul Balmez , Anas M. Ali , Bilel Benjdira , Wadii Boulila , Tianyi Mao , Huan Zheng , Yanyan Wei , Shengeng Tang , Dan Guo , Zhao Zhang , Sabari Nathan , K Uma , A Sasithradevi , B Sathya Bama , S. Mohamed Mansoor Roomi , Ao Li , Xiangtao Zhang , Zhe Liu , Yijie Tang , Jialong Tang , Zhicheng Fu , Gong Chen , Joe Nasti , John Nicholson , Zeyu Xiao , Zhuoyuan Li , Ashutosh Kulkarni , Prashant W. Patil , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Subrahmanyam Murala , Duan Liu , Weile Li , Hangyuan Lu , Rixian Liu , Tengfeng Wang , Jinxing Liang , Chenxin Yu

Event-based low-light image enhancement (LIE) methods mainly focus on incorporating high dynamic range (HDR) information from events while overlooking the essential global illumination in images and the inherent noise sensitivity of event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Senyan Xu , Zhijing Sun , Kean Liu , Xin Lu , Ruixuan Jiang , Mingyang Huang , Xueyang Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha

Images captured under low-light conditions manifest poor visibility, lack contrast and color vividness. Compared to conventional approaches, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well in enhancing images. However, being solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Aditya Arora , Muhammad Haris , Syed Waqas Zamir , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao , Ming-Hsuan Yang