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In low-light environments like nighttime driving, image degradation severely challenges in-vehicle camera safety. Since existing enhancement algorithms are often too computationally intensive for vehicular applications, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuhan Chen , Yicui Shi , Guofa Li , Guangrui Bai , Jinyuan Shao , Xiangfei Huang , Wenbo Chu , Keqiang Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently become the leading method for low-light image enhancement (LLIE). However, despite significant progress, their outputs may still exhibit issues such as amplified noise, incorrect white balance, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Zhihua Wang , Yu Long , Qinghua Lin , Kai Zhang , Yazhu Zhang , Yuming Fang , Li Liu , Xiaochun Cao

In low-light environments, the performance of computer vision algorithms often deteriorates significantly, adversely affecting key vision tasks such as segmentation, detection, and classification. With the rapid advancement of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Fangxue Liu , Lei Fan

Face detection in low light scenarios is challenging but vital to many practical applications, e.g., surveillance video, autonomous driving at night. Most existing face detectors heavily rely on extensive annotations, while collecting data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Wenjing Wang , Wenhan Yang , Jiaying Liu

Drones have proven to be useful in many industry segments such as security and surveillance, where e.g. on-board real-time object tracking is a necessity for autonomous flying guards. Tracking and following suspicious objects is therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Maarten Vandersteegen , Kristof Vanbeeck , Toon goedeme

In recent years, image and video surveillance have made considerable progresses to the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) with the help of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). As one of the state-of-the-art perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Lan Fu , Hongkai Yu , Felix Juefei-Xu , Jinlong Li , Qing Guo , Song Wang

A sleepy driver is arguably much more dangerous on the road than the one who is speeding as he is a victim of microsleeps. Automotive researchers and manufacturers are trying to curb this problem with several technological solutions that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Rateb Jabbar , Mohammed Shinoy , Mohamed Kharbeche , Khalifa Al-Khalifa , Moez Krichen , Kamel Barkaoui

This paper presents a new dataset and general tracker enhancement method for Underwater Visual Object Tracking (UVOT). Despite its significance, underwater tracking has remained unexplored due to data inaccessibility. It poses distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Basit Alawode , Fayaz Ali Dharejo , Mehnaz Ummar , Yuhang Guo , Arif Mahmood , Naoufel Werghi , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Jiri Matas , Sajid Javed

Nowadays there is a growing research interest on the possibility of enriching small flying robots with autonomous sensing and online navigation capabilities. This will enable a large number of applications spanning from remote surveillance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Anna Guerra , Davide Dardari , Petar M. Djuric

In image processing, it is essential to detect and track air targets, especially UAVs. In this paper, we detect the flying drone using a fisheye camera. In the field of diagnosis and classification of objects, there are always many problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Fatemeh Mahdavi , Roozbeh Rajabi

This paper addresses the problem of multi-object tracking in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) footage. It plays a critical role in various UAV applications, including traffic monitoring systems and real-time suspect tracking by the police.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 InPyo Song , Jangwon Lee

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve an image's visibility while keeping its visual naturalness. Different from existing methods tending to accomplish the relighting task directly by ignoring the fidelity and naturalness recovery, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Kui Jiang , Zhongyuan Wang , Zheng Wang , Chen Chen , Peng Yi , Tao Lu , Chia-Wen Lin

Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) gives a great opportunity to develop an autonomous devices. The contribution of this work is an improved convolutional neural network (CNN) model and its implementation for the detection of road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Syed Ali Hassan , Tariq Rahim , Soo Young Shin

Autonomous operation of UAVs in a closed environment requires precise and reliable pose estimate that can stabilize the UAV without using external localization systems such as GNSS. In this work, we are concerned with estimating the pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Matěj Petrl\' ik , Tom\' aš Krajn\' ik , Martin Saska

Light adaptation or brightness correction is a key step in improving the contrast and visual appeal of an image. There are multiple light-related tasks (for example, low-light enhancement and exposure correction) and previous studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Kai-Fu Yang , Cheng Cheng , Shi-Xuan Zhao , Xian-Shi Zhang , Yong-Jie Li

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

Automating the navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in diverse scenarios has gained much attention in recent years. However, teaching UAVs to fly in challenging environments remains an unsolved problem, mainly due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Matthias Müller , Vincent Casser , Neil Smith , Dominik L. Michels , Bernard Ghanem

With the goal of tuning up the brightness, low-light image enhancement enjoys numerous applications, such as surveillance, remote sensing and computational photography. Images captured under low-light conditions often suffer from poor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-21 Zhuqing Jiang , Chang Liu , Ya'nan Wang , Kai Li , Aidong Men , Haiying Wang , Haiyong Luo

The diffusion of drones presents significant security and safety challenges. Traditional surveillance systems, particularly conventional frame-based cameras, struggle to reliably detect these targets due to their small size, high agility,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Gabriele Magrini , Lorenzo Berlincioni , Luca Cultrera , Federico Becattini , Pietro Pala

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