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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

Despite extensive research conducted in the field of image denoising, many algorithms still heavily depend on supervised learning and their effectiveness primarily relies on the quality and diversity of training data. It is widely assumed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Alexandra Malyugina , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , David Bull

Obtaining pairs of low/normal-light videos, with motions, is more challenging than still images, which raises technical issues and poses the technical route of unpaired learning as a critical role. This paper makes endeavors in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Lingyu Zhu , Wenhan Yang , Baoliang Chen , Hanwei Zhu , Zhangkai Ni , Qi Mao , Shiqi Wang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a crucial task in computer vision aimed at enhancing the visual fidelity of images captured under low-illumination conditions. Conventional methods frequently struggle with noise, overexposure, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Namrah Siddiqua , Kim Suneung , Seong-Whan Lee

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

Real-time transportation surveillance is an essential part of the intelligent transportation system (ITS). However, images captured under low-light conditions often suffer the poor visibility with types of degradation, such as noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Jingxiang Qu , Ryan Wen Liu , Yuan Gao , Yu Guo , Fenghua Zhu , Fei-yue Wang

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

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

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

This paper introduces a novel lightweight computational framework for enhancing images under low-light conditions, utilizing advanced machine learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional enhancement techniques often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhuoheng Li , Yuheng Pan , Houcheng Yu , Zhiheng Zhang

We introduce LTCF-Net, a novel network architecture designed for enhancing low-light images. Unlike Retinex-based methods, our approach utilizes two color spaces - LAB and YUV - to efficiently separate and process color information, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Gaojing Zhang , Jinglun Feng

Removing noise from images is a challenging and fundamental problem in the field of computer vision. Images captured by modern cameras are inevitably degraded by noise which limits the accuracy of any quantitative measurements on those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Nikhil Verma , Deepkamal Kaur , Lydia Chau

Images captured under low-light conditions present significant limitations in many applications, as poor lighting can obscure details, reduce contrast, and hide noise. Removing the illumination effects and enhancing the quality of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Daniel Torres , Joan Duran , Julia Navarro , Catalina Sbert

Although Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) has made substantial progress in the low-light image enhancement task, one critical problem of CNNs is the paradox of model complexity and performance. This paper presents a novel SurroundNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Fei Zhou , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Haoran Zhao , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Previous works have shown that convolutional neural networks can achieve good performance in image denoising tasks. However, limited by the local rigid convolutional operation, these methods lead to oversmoothing artifacts. A deeper network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Meng Chang , Qi Li , Huajun Feng , Zhihai Xu

Low-light image enhancement is an important task in computer vision, essential for improving the visibility and quality of images captured in non-optimal lighting conditions. Inadequate illumination can lead to significant information loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ezequiel Perez-Zarate , Oscar Ramos-Soto , Chunxiao Liu , Diego Oliva , Marco Perez-Cisneros

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

Images captured under low-light conditions manifest poor visibility, lack contrast and color vividness. Compared to conventional approaches, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well in enhancing images. However, being solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Aditya Arora , Muhammad Haris , Syed Waqas Zamir , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Low light images suffer from severe noise, low brightness, low contrast, etc. In previous researches, many image enhancement methods have been proposed, but few methods can deal with these problems simultaneously. In this paper, to solve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Bin Zhang , Ruihang Ji , Chunhui Wang

Capturing images under extremely low-light conditions poses significant challenges for the standard camera pipeline. Images become too dark and too noisy, which makes traditional enhancement techniques almost impossible to apply. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ahmet Serdar Karadeniz , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem