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Extremely low-light text images are common in natural scenes, making scene text detection and recognition challenging. One solution is to enhance these images using low-light image enhancement methods before text extraction. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Che-Tsung Lin , Chun Chet Ng , Zhi Qin Tan , Wan Jun Nah , Xinyu Wang , Jie Long Kew , Pohao Hsu , Shang Hong Lai , Chee Seng Chan , Christopher Zach

Noise, an unwanted component in an image, can be the reason for the degradation of Image at the time of transmission or capturing. Noise reduction from images is still a challenging task. Digital Image Processing is a component of Digital…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Sahil Ali Akbar , Ananya Verma

Low-light image enhancement is crucial for a myriad of applications, from night vision and surveillance, to autonomous driving. However, due to the inherent limitations that come in hand with capturing images in low-illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Manjushree Aithal , Rosaura G. VidalMata , Manikandtan Kartha , Gong Chen , Eashan Adhikarla , Lucas N. Kirsten , Zhicheng Fu , Nikhil A. Madhusudhana , Joe Nasti

We introduce a novel approach to single image denoising based on the Blind Spot Denoising principle, which we call MAsked and SHuffled Blind Spot Denoising (MASH). We focus on the case of correlated noise, which often plagues real images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Hamadi Chihaoui , Paolo Favaro

Most of the existing learning-based single image superresolution (SISR) methods are trained and evaluated on simulated datasets, where the low-resolution (LR) images are generated by applying a simple and uniform degradation (i.e., bicubic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jianrui Cai , Hui Zeng , Hongwei Yong , Zisheng Cao , Lei Zhang

It is widely acknowledged that single image super-resolution (SISR) methods would not perform well if the assumed degradation model deviates from those in real images. Although several degradation models take additional factors into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Kai Zhang , Jingyun Liang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

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

Speckle noise, inherent in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, degrades the performance of the various SAR image analysis tasks. Thus, speckle noise reduction is a critical preprocessing step for smoothing homogeneous regions while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Fatih Nar

Due to the nature of enhancement--the absence of paired ground-truth information, high-level vision tasks have been recently employed to evaluate the performance of low-light image enhancement. A widely-used manner is to see how accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mingjia Li , Hao Zhao , Xiaojie Guo

Image enhancement is a common technique used to mitigate issues such as severe noise, low brightness, low contrast, and color deviation in low-light images. However, providing an optimal high-light image as a reference for low-light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Junde Wu , Rao Fu , Yong Li , Yue Wang , Yanwu Xu , Guohui Yang , Chunhui Wang

Scientific imaging often involves long acquisition times to obtain high-quality data, especially when probing complex, heterogeneous systems. However, reducing acquisition time to increase throughput inevitably introduces significant noise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Petrus H. Zwart , Tamas Varga , Odeta Qafoku , James A. Sethian

Endoscopes featuring a miniaturized design have significantly enhanced operational flexibility, portability, and diagnostic capability while substantially reducing the invasiveness of medical procedures. Recently, single-use endoscopes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Yu Xing , Shishi Huang , Meng Lv , Guo Chen , Huailiang Wang , Lingzhi Sui

The fields of imaging in the nighttime dynamic and other extremely dark conditions have seen impressive and transformative advancements in recent years, partly driven by the rise of novel sensing approaches, e.g., near-infrared (NIR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Chao Qu , Shuo Zhu , Yuhang Wang , Zongze Wu , Xiaoyu Chen , Edmund Y. Lam , Jing Han

Blind deconvolution is a challenging problem, but in low-light it is even more difficult. Existing algorithms, both classical and deep-learning based, are not designed for this condition. When the photon shot noise is strong, conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Yash Sanghvi , Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Zhiyuan Mao , Stanley H. Chan

Noise is an inherent issue of low-light image capture, one which is exacerbated on mobile devices due to their narrow apertures and small sensors. One strategy for mitigating noise in a low-light situation is to increase the shutter time of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Clément Godard , Kevin Matzen , Matt Uyttendaele

Images captured in poorly lit conditions are often corrupted by acquisition noise. Leveraging recent advances in graph-based regularization, we propose a fast Retinex-based restoration scheme that denoises and contrast-enhances an image.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Yeganeh Gharedaghi , Gene Cheung , Xianming Liu

Event cameras offer significant advantages for low-light video enhancement, primarily due to their high dynamic range. Current research, however, is severely limited by the absence of large-scale, real-world, and spatio-temporally aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Kanghao Chen , Guoqiang Liang , Hangyu Li , Yunfan Lu , Lin Wang

Visible Light Communication (VLC) using Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) has gained attention due to its low power consumption, long lifetime, and fast response. However, VLC suffers from optical noise generated by ambient light sources such as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Wataru Uemura , Takumi Hamano

Real-world exposure correction is fundamentally challenged by spatially non-uniform degradations, where diverse exposure errors frequently coexist within a single image. However, existing exposure correction methods are still largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ao Li , Jiawei Sun , Le Dong , Zhenyu Wang , Weisheng Dong

In this article, we address the challenges of image super-resolution and noise reduction, which are crucial for enhancing the quality of images derived from low-resolution or noisy data. We compared and assessed several approaches for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-06-17 Ngoc-Giau Pham , Thanh-Hai Tong Le , Van-Hieu Duong , Hong-Ngoc Tran , Phuoc-Hung Vo