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With the goal of tuning up the brightness, low-light image enhancement enjoys numerous applications, such as surveillance, remote sensing and computational photography. Images captured under low-light conditions often suffer from poor…

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Blind deconvolution is a challenging problem, but in low-light it is even more difficult. Existing algorithms, both classical and deep-learning based, are not designed for this condition. When the photon shot noise is strong, conventional…

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In this paper, we tackle a fully unsupervised super-resolution problem, i.e., neither paired images nor ground truth HR images. We assume that low resolution (LR) images are relatively easy to collect compared to high resolution (HR)…

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Aiming at the existing single image haze removal algorithms, which are based on prior knowledge and assumptions, subject to many limitations in practical applications, and could suffer from noise and halo amplification. An end-to-end system…

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The core challenge of hyperspectral image denoising is striking the right balance between data fidelity and noise prior modeling. Most existing methods place too much emphasis on the intrinsic priors of the image while overlooking diverse…

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There has long been a belief that high-level semantics learning can benefit various downstream computer vision tasks. However, in the low-light image enhancement (LLIE) community, existing methods learn a brutal mapping between low-light…

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Transformer-based detectors have advanced small-object detection, but they often remain inefficient and vulnerable to background-induced query noise, which motivates deep decoders to refine low-quality queries. We present HELP…

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Enhancing the visibility of nighttime hazy images is challenging due to the complex degradation distributions. Existing methods mainly address a single type of degradation (e.g., haze or low-light) at a time, ignoring the interplay of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Chen Zhu , Huiwen Zhang , Mu He , Yujie Li , Xiaotian Qiao

As the quality of optical sensors improves, there is a need for processing large-scale images. In particular, the ability of devices to capture ultra-high definition (UHD) images and video places new demands on the image processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Tianrun Shen , Wenhan Luo , Bjorn Stenger , Tong Lu

Low-light image enhancement task is essential yet challenging as it is ill-posed intrinsically. Previous arts mainly focus on the low-light images captured in the visible spectrum using pixel-wise loss, which limits the capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Shulin Tian , Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

It is suggested that low-light image enhancement realizes one-to-many mapping since we have different definitions of NORMAL-light given application scenarios or users' aesthetic. However, most existing methods ignore subjectivity of the…

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Images captured in low-light conditions usually suffer from very low contrast, which increases the difficulty of subsequent computer vision tasks in a great extent. In this paper, a low-light image enhancement model based on convolutional…

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Existing learning-based denoising methods typically train models to generalize the image prior from large-scale datasets, suffering from the variability in noise distributions encountered in real-world scenarios. In this work, we propose a…

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Images captured under low-light conditions often suffer from (partially) poor visibility. Besides unsatisfactory lightings, multiple types of degradations, such as noise and color distortion due to the limited quality of cameras, hide in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yonghua Zhang , Jiawan Zhang , Xiaojie Guo

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are well-known to act as over-parameterized deep image priors (DIP) that regularize various image inverse problems. Meanwhile, researchers also proposed extremely compact, under-parameterized image priors (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Qiming Wu , Xiaohan Chen , Yifan Jiang , Zhangyang Wang

Image restoration has seen great progress in the last years thanks to the advances in deep neural networks. Most of these existing techniques are trained using full supervision with suitable image pairs to tackle a specific degradation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Leonhard Helminger , Michael Bernasconi , Abdelaziz Djelouah , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

Although the advances of self-supervised blind denoising are significantly superior to conventional approaches without clean supervision in synthetic noise scenarios, it shows poor quality in real-world images due to spatially correlated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Kanggeun Lee , Kyungryun Lee , Won-Ki Jeong

Imaging in low-light environments is challenging due to reduced scene radiance, which leads to elevated sensor noise and reduced color saturation. Most learning-based low-light enhancement methods rely on paired training data captured under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Maria Pilligua , David Serrano-Lozano , Pai Peng , Ramon Baldrich , Michael S. Brown , Javier Vazquez-Corral

Editing High Dynamic Range (HDR) environment maps using an inverse differentiable rendering architecture is a complex inverse problem due to the sparsity of relevant pixels and the challenges in balancing light sources and background. The…

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Learning-based image harmonization techniques are usually trained to undo synthetic random global transformations applied to a masked foreground in a single ground truth photo. This simulated data does not model many of the important…

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