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Low light images captured in a non-uniform illumination environment usually are degraded with the scene depth and the corresponding environment lights. This degradation results in severe object information loss in the degraded image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Xin Xu , Shiqin Wang , Zheng Wang , Xiaolong Zhang , Ruimin Hu

The event camera, benefiting from its high dynamic range and low latency, provides performance gain for low-light image enhancement. Unlike frame-based cameras, it records intensity changes with extremely high temporal resolution, capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Chunyan She , Fujun Han , Chengyu Fang , Shukai Duan , Lidan Wang

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

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

Enhancing images in low-light scenes is a challenging but widely concerned task in the computer vision. The mainstream learning-based methods mainly acquire the enhanced model by learning the data distribution from the specific scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Long Ma , Dian Jin , Nan An , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

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

Low-light images are not conducive to human observation and computer vision algorithms due to their low visibility. Although many image enhancement techniques have been proposed to solve this problem, existing methods inevitably introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Zhenqiang Ying , Ge Li , Wen Gao

Retinex theory provides a principled foundation for low-light image enhancement, inspiring numerous learning-based methods that integrate its principles. However, existing methods exhibits limitations in accurately decomposing reflectance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bolun Zheng , Qingshan Lei , Quan Chen , Qianyu Zhang , Kainan Yu , Xu Jia , Lingyu Zhu

Existing research has made impressive strides in reconstructing human facial shapes and textures from images with well-illuminated faces and minimal external occlusions. Nevertheless, it remains challenging to recover accurate facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Tianxin Huang , Zhenyu Zhang , Ying Tai , Gim Hee Lee

Recent image enhancement methods have shown the advantages of using a pair of long and short-exposure images for low-light photography. These image modalities offer complementary strengths and weaknesses. The former yields an image that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Shayan Shekarforoush , Amanpreet Walia , Marcus A. Brubaker , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Alex Levinshtein

Real-world imaging systems acquire measurements that are degraded by noise, optical aberrations, and other imperfections that make image processing for human viewing and higher-level perception tasks challenging. Conventional cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Steven Diamond , Vincent Sitzmann , Frank Julca-Aguilar , Stephen Boyd , Gordon Wetzstein , Felix Heide

Explicit reconstruction constraints derived from the decoupled representation are further imposed to suppress abnormal channel amplification and chromatic noise. Experiments on LOLv2-Real, MIT-Adobe FiveK, and LSRW show that the proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Guangrui Bai , Yifan Mei , Yahui Deng , Yuhan Chen , Yuze Qiu , Wenhai Liu , Erbao Dong

Enhancing low-light images while maintaining natural colors is a challenging problem due to camera processing variations and limited access to photos with ground-truth lighting conditions. The latter is a crucial factor for supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wojciech Kozłowski , Michał Szachniewicz , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba

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

Images acquired in low-light environments present significant obstacles for computer vision systems and human perception, especially for applications requiring accurate object recognition and scene analysis. Such images typically manifest…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Bibhabasu Debnath , Sahana Ray , Sanjay Ghosh

Enhancing low-light traffic images is crucial for reliable perception in autonomous driving, intelligent transportation, and urban surveillance systems. Nighttime and dimly lit traffic scenes often suffer from poor visibility due to low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Siddiqua Namrah

When one captures images in low-light conditions, the images often suffer from low visibility. This poor quality may significantly degrade the performance of many computer vision and multimedia algorithms that are primarily designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Xiaojie Guo

Retinex model is an effective tool for low-light image enhancement. It assumes that observed images can be decomposed into the reflectance and illumination. Most existing Retinex-based methods have carefully designed hand-crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Chen Wei , Wenjing Wang , Wenhan Yang , Jiaying Liu

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 presents an algorithm that enhances undesirably illuminated images by generating and fusing multi-level illuminations from a single image.The input image is first decomposed into illumination and reflectance components by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Jae Sung Park , Nam Ik Cho