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Low-light images suffer from severe noise and low illumination. Current deep learning models that are trained with real-world images have excellent noise reduction, but a ratio parameter must be chosen manually to complete the enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Qingxu Fu , Xiaoguang Di , Yu Zhang

This paper presents a novel network structure with illumination-aware gamma correction and complete image modelling to solve the low-light image enhancement problem. Low-light environments usually lead to less informative large-scale dark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yinglong Wang , Zhen Liu , Jianzhuang Liu , Songcen Xu , Shuaicheng Liu

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

Contrast enhancement and noise removal are coupled problems for low-light image enhancement. The existing Retinex based methods do not take the coupling relation into consideration, resulting in under or over-smoothing of the enhanced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Yang Wang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jing Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Wei Zhang , Feng Wu

In this paper, we study the problem of making brighter images from dark images found in the wild. The images are dark because they are taken in dim environments. They suffer from color shifts caused by quantization and from sensor noise. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Sara Aghajanzadeh , David Forsyth

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

Learned joint representations of images and text form the backbone of several important cross-domain tasks such as image captioning. Prior work mostly maps both domains into a common latent representation in a purely supervised fashion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Shweta Mahajan , Iryna Gurevych , Stefan Roth

Most learning-based image compression methods lack efficiency for high image quality due to their non-invertible design. The decoding function of the frequently applied compressive autoencoder architecture is only an approximated inverse of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Marc Windsheimer , Fabian Brand , André Kaup

Images captured in low-light environment often suffer from complex degradation. Simply adjusting light would inevitably result in burst of hidden noise and color distortion. To seek results with satisfied lighting, cleanliness, and realism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Qiming Hu , Xiaojie Guo

Images acquired by computer vision systems under low light conditions have multiple characteristics like high noise, lousy illumination, reflectance, and bad contrast, which make object detection tasks difficult. Much work has been done to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Winston Chen , Tejas Shah

We tackle the problem of estimating flow between two images with large lighting variations. Recent learning-based flow estimation frameworks have shown remarkable performance on image pairs with small displacement and constant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zhaoyang Huang , Xiaokun Pan , Runsen Xu , Yan Xu , Ka chun Cheung , Guofeng Zhang , Hongsheng Li

Modeling and synthesizing image noise is an important aspect in many computer vision applications. The long-standing additive white Gaussian and heteroscedastic (signal-dependent) noise models widely used in the literature provide only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Abdelrahman Abdelhamed , Marcus A. Brubaker , Michael S. Brown

Low-light photography produces images with low signal-to-noise ratios due to limited photons. In such conditions, common approximations like the Gaussian noise model fall short, and many denoising techniques fail to remove noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Liying Lu , Raphaël Achddou , Sabine Süsstrunk

We present IllumFlow, a novel framework that synergizes conditional Rectified Flow (CRF) with Retinex theory for low-light image enhancement (LLIE). Our model addresses low-light enhancement through separate optimization of illumination and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Wenyang Wei , Yang yang , Xixi Jia , Xiangchu Feng , Weiwei Wang , Renzhen Wang

High-quality photography in extreme low-light conditions is challenging but impactful for digital cameras. With advanced computing hardware, traditional camera image signal processor (ISP) algorithms are gradually being replaced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Amber Yijia Zheng , Yu Zhang , Jun Hu , Raymond A. Yeh , Chen Chen

Text-to-image diffusion models offer powerful image editing capabilities. To edit real images, many methods rely on the inversion of the image into Gaussian noise. A common approach to invert an image is to gradually add noise to the image,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Edo Kadosh , Nir Goren , Or Patashnik , Daniel Garibi , Daniel Cohen-Or

The prevalent convolutional neural network (CNN) based image denoising methods extract features of images to restore the clean ground truth, achieving high denoising accuracy. However, these methods may ignore the underlying distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yang Liu , Saeed Anwar , Zhenyue Qin , Pan Ji , Sabrina Caldwell , Tom Gedeon

Normalizing flow models have been used successfully for generative image super-resolution (SR) by approximating complex distribution of natural images to simple tractable distribution in latent space through Invertible Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Min Zhang , Zhihong Pan , Xin Zhou , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Super-resolution is an ill-posed problem, since it allows for multiple predictions for a given low-resolution image. This fundamental fact is largely ignored by state-of-the-art deep learning based approaches. These methods instead train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Andreas Lugmayr , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Image captured under low-light conditions presents unpleasing artifacts, which debilitate the performance of feature extraction for many upstream visual tasks. Low-light image enhancement aims at improving brightness and contrast, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Zhijian Luo , Jiahui Tang , Yueen Hou , Zihan Huang , Yanzeng Gao