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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

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

Image dehazing techniques aim to enhance contrast and restore details, which are essential for preserving visual information and improving image processing accuracy. Existing methods rely on a single manual prior, which cannot effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Minglong Xue , Shuaibin Fan , Shivakumara Palaiahnakote , Mingliang Zhou

Non-local self similarity (NSS) is a powerful prior of natural images for image denoising. Most of existing denoising methods employ similar patches, which is a patch-level NSS prior. In this paper, we take one step forward by introducing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yingkun Hou , Jun Xu , Mingxia Liu , Guanghai Liu , Li Liu , Fan Zhu , Ling Shao

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 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

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

Due to the low accuracy of object detection and recognition in many intelligent surveillance systems at nighttime, the quality of night images is crucial. Compared with the corresponding daytime image, nighttime image is characterized as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Xinyi Bai , Steffi Agino Priyanka , Hsiao-Jung Tung , Yuankai Wang

Under challenging light conditions, captured images often suffer from various degradations, leading to a decline in the performance of vision-based applications. Although numerous methods have been proposed to enhance image quality, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jing Tao , You Li , Banglei Guan , Yang Shang , Qifeng Yu

This paper investigates the problem of image classification with limited or no annotations, but abundant unlabeled data. The setting exists in many tasks such as semi-supervised image classification, image clustering, and image retrieval.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Homography estimation is a basic image alignment method in many applications. It is usually conducted by extracting and matching sparse feature points, which are error-prone in low-light and low-texture images. On the other hand, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Jirong Zhang , Chuan Wang , Shuaicheng Liu , Lanpeng Jia , Nianjin Ye , Jue Wang , Ji Zhou , Jian Sun

Low-light image denoising and enhancement are challenging, especially when traditional noise assumptions, such as Gaussian noise, do not hold in majority. In many real-world scenarios, such as low-light imaging, noise is signal-dependent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Isha Rao , Ratul Chakraborty , Sanjay Ghosh

Low-light image enhancement is a promising solution to tackle the problem of insufficient sensitivity of human vision system (HVS) to perceive information in low light environments. Previous Retinex-based works always accomplish enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-18 Xiaoxiao Li , Xiaopeng Guo , Liye Mei , Mingyu Shang , Jie Gao , Maojing Shu , Xiang Wang

Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods are proposed for hyperspectral images (HSIs) denoising. Among them, unsupervised methods such as the deep image prior (DIP) have received much attention because these methods do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Yi-Si Luo , Xi-Le Zhao , Tai-Xiang Jiang , Yu-Bang Zheng , Yi Chang

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

Hyperspectral (HS) unmixing is the process of decomposing an HS image into material-specific spectra (endmembers) and their spatial distributions (abundance maps). Existing unmixing methods have two limitations with respect to noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-20 Kazuki Naganuma , Shunsuke Ono

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the visibility of images captured in poorly lit environments. Prevalent event-based solutions primarily utilize events triggered by motion, i.e., ''motion events'' to strengthen only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lei Sun , Yuhan Bao , Jiajun Zhai , Jingyun Liang , Yulun Zhang , Kaiwei Wang , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

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

Imaging through dense fog presents unique challenges, with essential visual information crucial for applications like object detection and recognition obscured, thereby hindering conventional image processing methods. Despite improvements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Libang Chen , Jinyan Lin , Qihang Bian , Yikun Liu , Jianying Zhou

Retinex-based low-light image enhancement methods are widely used due to their excellent performance. However, most of them are time-consuming for large-sized images. This paper extends the Retinex model from the spatial domain to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jingtian Zhao , Xueli Xie , Jianxiang Xi , Xiaogang Yang , Haoxuan Sun