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We present an approach to enhancing the realism of synthetic images. The images are enhanced by a convolutional network that leverages intermediate representations produced by conventional rendering pipelines. The network is trained via a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Stephan R. Richter , Hassan Abu AlHaija , Vladlen Koltun

Existing methods for enhancing dark images captured in a very low-light environment assume that the intensity level of the optimal output image is known and already included in the training set. However, this assumption often does not hold,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Evgeny Hershkovitch Neiterman , Michael Klyuchka , Gil Ben-Artzi

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) techniques attempt to increase the visibility of images captured in low-light scenarios. However, as a result of enhancement, a variety of image degradations such as noise and color bias are revealed.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Savvas Panagiotou , Anna S. Bosman

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

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the visibility of degraded images to better align with human visual perception. While diffusion-based methods have shown promising performance due to their strong generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jinhong He , Minglong Xue , Zhipu Liu , Mingliang Zhou , Aoxiang Ning , Palaiahnakote Shivakumara

This work addresses image restoration tasks through the lens of inverse problems using unpaired datasets. In contrast to traditional approaches -- which typically assume full knowledge of the forward model or access to paired degraded and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Giacomo Meanti , Thomas Ryckeboer , Michael Arbel , Julien Mairal

Low-light images, i.e. the images captured in low-light conditions, suffer from very poor visibility caused by low contrast, color distortion and significant measurement noise. Low-light image enhancement is about improving the visibility…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Jinxiu Liang , Yong Xu , Yuhui Quan , Jingwen Wang , Haibin Ling , Hui Ji

Imaging in low light is challenging due to low photon count and low SNR. Short-exposure images suffer from noise, while long exposure can induce blur and is often impractical. A variety of denoising, deblurring, and enhancement techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Chen Chen , Qifeng Chen , Jia Xu , Vladlen Koltun

Despite recent advances in image enhancement, it remains difficult for existing approaches to adaptively improve the brightness and contrast for both low-light and normal-light images. To solve this problem, we propose a novel 2D histogram…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Xiaomeng Wu , Yongqing Sun , Akisato Kimura , Kunio Kashino

One of the fundamental challenges in image restoration is denoising, where the objective is to estimate the clean image from its noisy measurements. To tackle such an ill-posed inverse problem, the existing denoising approaches generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Lanqing Guo , Siyu Huang , Haosen Liu , Bihan Wen

During the acquisition of an image from its source, noise always becomes an integral part of it. Various algorithms have been used in past to denoise the images. Image denoising still has scope for improvement. Visual information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Santosh Paudel , Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Pradip Singh Maharjan , Rameshwar Rijal

In this paper, we propose a novel low-light image enhancement method aimed at improving the performance of recognition models. Despite recent advances in deep learning, the recognition of images under low-light conditions remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Seitaro Ono , Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito , Masato Tsukada

High-resolution digital images are usually downscaled to fit various display screens or save the cost of storage and bandwidth, meanwhile the post-upscaling is adpoted to recover the original resolutions or the details in the zoom-in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-13 Mingqing Xiao , Shuxin Zheng , Chang Liu , Yaolong Wang , Di He , Guolin Ke , Jiang Bian , Zhouchen Lin , Tie-Yan Liu

Low-light image enhancement is generally regarded as a challenging task in image processing, especially for the complex visual tasks at night or weakly illuminated. In order to reduce the blurs or noises on the low-light images, a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Yangming Shi , Xiaopo Wu , Ming Zhu

Normalizing flows transform a latent distribution through an invertible neural network for a flexible and pleasingly simple approach to generative modelling, while preserving an exact likelihood. We propose FlowGMM, an end-to-end approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Pavel Izmailov , Polina Kirichenko , Marc Finzi , Andrew Gordon Wilson

The difficulty of obtaining paired data remains a major bottleneck for learning image restoration and enhancement models for real-world applications. Current strategies aim to synthesize realistic training data by modeling noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Valentin Wolf , Andreas Lugmayr , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Super-resolution is an ill-posed problem, where a ground-truth high-resolution image represents only one possibility in the space of plausible solutions. Yet, the dominant paradigm is to employ pixel-wise losses, such as L_1, which drive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Andreas Lugmayr , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Inverse rendering, the process of inferring scene properties from images, is a challenging inverse problem. The task is ill-posed, as many different scene configurations can give rise to the same image. Most existing solutions incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Linjie Lyu , Ayush Tewari , Marc Habermann , Shunsuke Saito , Michael Zollhöfer , Thomas Leimkühler , Christian Theobalt

Flow-based methods have demonstrated promising results in addressing the ill-posed nature of super-resolution (SR) by learning the distribution of high-resolution (HR) images with the normalizing flow. However, these methods can only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Jie-En Yao , Li-Yuan Tsao , Yi-Chen Lo , Roy Tseng , Chia-Che Chang , Chun-Yi Lee

Low light very likely leads to the degradation of an image's quality and even causes visual task failures. Existing image enhancement technologies are prone to overenhancement, color distortion or time consumption, and their adaptability is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Xiaozhou Lei , Zixiang Fei , Wenju Zhou , Huiyu Zhou , Minrui Fei