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Restoring nighttime images affected by multiple adverse weather conditions is a practical yet under-explored research problem, as multiple weather conditions often coexist in the real world alongside various lighting effects at night. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yuetong Liu , Yunqiu Xu , Yang Wei , Xiuli Bi , Bin Xiao

Light field (LF) images containing information for multiple views have numerous applications, which can be severely affected by low-light imaging. Recent learning-based methods for low-light enhancement have some disadvantages, such as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Shansi Zhang , Nan Meng , Edmund Y. Lam

In low-light conditions, a conventional camera imaging pipeline produces sub-optimal images that are usually dark and noisy due to a low photon count and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We present a data-driven approach that learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has received much attention in recent years due to the impressively high quality in 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, image degradation caused by the scattering of atmospheric light and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Tian Li , LU Li , Wei Wang , Zhangchi Feng

Low-light imaging with handheld mobile devices is a challenging issue. Limited by the existing models and training data, most existing methods cannot be effectively applied in real scenarios. In this paper, we propose a new low-light image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Meng Chang , Huajun Feng , Zhihai Xu , Qi Li

Portrait harmonization aims to composite a subject into a new background, adjusting its lighting and color to ensure harmony with the background scene. Existing harmonization techniques often only focus on adjusting the global color and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mengwei Ren , Wei Xiong , Jae Shin Yoon , Zhixin Shu , Jianming Zhang , HyunJoon Jung , Guido Gerig , He Zhang

Night photography typically suffers from both low light and blurring issues due to the dim environment and the common use of long exposure. While existing light enhancement and deblurring methods could deal with each problem individually, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Shangchen Zhou , Chongyi Li , Chen Change Loy

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

Artificial lights commonly leave strong lens flare artifacts on the images captured at night, degrading both the visual quality and performance of vision algorithms. Existing flare removal approaches mainly focus on removing daytime flares…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yuekun Dai , Chongyi Li , Shangchen Zhou , Ruicheng Feng , Yihang Luo , Chen Change Loy

We present a learning-based technique for estimating high dynamic range (HDR), omnidirectional illumination from a single low dynamic range (LDR) portrait image captured under arbitrary indoor or outdoor lighting conditions. We train our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Chloe LeGendre , Wan-Chun Ma , Rohit Pandey , Sean Fanello , Christoph Rhemann , Jason Dourgarian , Jay Busch , Paul Debevec

Existing research based on deep learning has extensively explored the problem of daytime image dehazing. However, few studies have considered the characteristics of nighttime hazy scenes. There are two distinctions between nighttime and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xiaofeng Cong , Jie Gui , Jing Zhang , Junming Hou , Hao Shen

Object recognition is a critical part of any surveillance system. It is the matter of utmost concern to identify intruders and foreign objects in the area where surveillance is done. The performance of surveillance system using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Aashish Bhandari , Aayush Kafle , Pranjal Dhakal , Prateek Raj Joshi , Dinesh Baniya Kshatri

This paper proposes a scheme for single image haze removal based on the airlight field (ALF) estimation. Conventional image dehazing methods which are based on a physical model generally take the global atmospheric light as a constant.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Lijun Zhang , Yongbin Gao , Yujin Zhang

Light pollution is a form of environmental degradation in which excessive artificial outdoor lighting, such as street lamps, neon signs, and illuminated signboards, affects the natural environment and the ecosystem. Poorly designed outdoor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-24 Chun Shing Jason Pun , Chu Wing So , Wai Yan Leung , Chung Fai Wong

This paper presents an improved and modified partial differential equation (PDE)-based de-hazing algorithm. The proposed method combines logarithmic image processing models in a PDE formulation refined with linear filter-based operators in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Uche A. Nnolim

Spatial filtering is a commonly deployed technique to improve the quality of laser beams by optically filtering the noise. In the "textbook" example, the noise is usually assumed to be high frequency and the laser beam, Gaussian. In this…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Jonathan Pinnell , Asher Klug , Andrew Forbes

This paper tackles the intricate challenge of improving the quality of nighttime images under hazy and low-light conditions. Overcoming issues including nonuniform illumination glows, texture blurring, glow effects, color distortion, noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Silvano A. Bernabel , Sos S. Agaian

Poor image quality in low light images may result in a reduced number of feature matching between images. In this paper, we investigate the performance of feature extraction algorithms in low light environments. To find an optimal setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Pranjay Shyam , Antyanta Bangunharcana , Kyung-Soo Kim

The Light Field Raindrop Removal (LFRR) aims to restore the background areas obscured by raindrops in the Light Field (LF). Compared with single image, the LF provides more abundant information by regularly and densely sampling the scene.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Dong Jing , Shuo Zhang , Song Chang , Youfang Lin

License plate recognition (LPR) is important for traffic law enforcement, crime investigation, and surveillance. However, license plate areas in dash cam images often suffer from low resolution, motion blur, and glare, which make accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Kihyun Na , Junseok Oh , Youngkwan Cho , Bumjin Kim , Sungmin Cho , Jinyoung Choi , Injung Kim