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Images captured under extremely low light conditions are noise-limited, which can cause existing robotic vision algorithms to fail. In this paper we develop an image processing technique for aiding 3D reconstruction from images acquired in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ahalya Ravendran , Mitch Bryson , Donald G. Dansereau

Hyperspectral cameras face challenging spatial-spectral resolution trade-offs and are more affected by shot noise than RGB photos taken over the same total exposure time. Here, we present a colorization algorithm to reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 M. Kerem Aydin , Qi Guo , Emma Alexander

Although low-light image enhancement has achieved great stride based on deep enhancement models, most of them mainly stress on enhancement performance via an elaborated black-box network and rarely explore the physical significance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Huake Wang , Xingsong Hou , Chengcu Liu , Kaibing Zhang , Xiangyong Cao , Xueming Qian

Explicit calibration-based methods have dominated RAW image denoising under extremely low-light environments. However, these methods are impeded by several critical limitations: a) the explicit calibration process is both labor- and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xin Jin , Jia-Wen Xiao , Ling-Hao Han , Chunle Guo , Xialei Liu , Chongyi Li , Ming-Ming Cheng

Image foreground extraction is a classical problem in image processing and vision, with a large range of applications. In this dissertation, we focus on the extraction of text and graphics in mixed-content images, and design novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Shervin Minaee

Removal of noise from an image is an extensively studied problem in image processing. Indeed, the recent advent of sophisticated and highly effective denoising algorithms lead some to believe that existing methods are touching the ceiling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Yaniv Romano , Michael Elad , Peyman Milanfar

Image denoising is a fundamental task in low-level computer vision. While recent deep learning-based image denoising methods have achieved impressive performance, they are black-box models and the underlying denoising principle remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Jingwei Niu , Jun Cheng , Shan Tan

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

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) aims to restore vivid content and details from corrupted low-light images. However, existing standard RGB (sRGB) color space-based LLIE methods often produce color bias and brightness artifacts due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Qingsen Yan , Kangbiao Shi , Yixu Feng , Tao Hu , Peng Wu , Guansong Pang , Yanning Zhang

This paper proposes a new framework for low-light image enhancement by simultaneously conducting the appearance as well as structure modeling. It employs the structural feature to guide the appearance enhancement, leading to sharp and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Xiaogang Xu , Ruixing Wang , Jiangbo Lu

Image denoising can be described as the problem of mapping from a noisy image to a noise-free image. The best currently available denoising methods approximate this mapping with cleverly engineered algorithms. In this work we attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-12 Harold Christopher Burger , Christian J. Schuler , Stefan Harmeling

Low-light image enhancement - a pervasive but challenging problem, plays a central role in enhancing the visibility of an image captured in a poor illumination environment. Due to the fact that not all photons can pass the Bayer-Filter on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Xingbo Dong , Wanyan Xu , Zhihui Miao , Lan Ma , Chao Zhang , Jiewen Yang , Zhe Jin , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh , Jiajun Shen

The extremes of lighting (e.g. too much or too little light) usually cause many troubles for machine and human vision. Many recent works have mainly focused on under-exposure cases where images are often captured in low-light conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Hue Nguyen , Diep Tran , Khoi Nguyen , Rang Nguyen

We design a novel network architecture for learning discriminative image models that are employed to efficiently tackle the problem of grayscale and color image denoising. Based on the proposed architecture, we introduce two different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

The Retinex model is one of the most representative and effective methods for low-light image enhancement. However, the Retinex model does not explicitly tackle the noise problem, and shows unsatisfactory enhancing results. In recent years,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Tingting Wu , Wenna Wu , Ying Yang , Feng-Lei Fan , Tieyong Zeng

The goal of image harmonization is adjusting the foreground appearance in a composite image to make the whole image harmonious. To construct paired training images, existing datasets adopt different ways to adjust the illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Li Niu , Junyan Cao , Wenyan Cong , Liqing Zhang

Low-light imaging is challenging since images may appear to be dark and noised due to low signal-to-noise ratio, complex image content, and the variety in shooting scenes in extreme low-light condition. Many methods have been proposed to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Keqi Wang , Peng Gao , Steven Hoi , Qian Guo , Yuhua Qian

Intrinsic image decomposition aims to separate the surface reflectance and the effects from the illumination given a single photograph. Due to the complexity of the problem, most prior works assume a single-color illumination and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Chris Careaga , Yağız Aksoy

Complex degradations like noise, blur, and low resolution are typical challenges in real world image fusion tasks, limiting the performance and practicality of existing methods. End to end neural network based approaches are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yu Shi , Yu Liu , Zhong-Cheng Wu , Juan Cheng , Huafeng Li , Xun Chen

The goal of blind image deblurring is to recover a sharp image from a motion blurred one without knowing the camera motion. Current state-of-the-art methods have a remarkably good performance on images with no noise or very low noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Jérémy Anger , Mauricio Delbracio , Gabriele Facciolo