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This paper reviews the AIM 2025 (Advances in Image Manipulation) Low-Light RAW Video Denoising Challenge. The task is to develop methods that denoise low-light RAW video by exploiting temporal redundancy while operating under exposure-time…

Low-light vision remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision due to severe illumination degradation, which significantly affects the performance of downstream tasks such as detection and segmentation. While recent state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Fangtong Sun , Congyu Li , Ke Yang , Yuchen Pan , Hanwen Yu , Xichuan Zhang , Yiying Li

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

Image downscaling is critical for efficient storage and transmission of high-resolution (HR) images. Existing learning-based methods focus on performing downscaling within the sRGB domain, which typically suffers from blurred details and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Yang Ren , Hai Jiang , Wei Li , Menglong Yang , Heng Zhang , Zehua Sheng , Qingsheng Ye , Shuaicheng Liu

Raw low light image enhancement (LLIE) has achieved much better performance than the sRGB domain enhancement methods due to the merits of raw data. However, the ambiguity between noisy to clean and raw to sRGB mappings may mislead the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Qirui Yang , Qihua Cheng , Huanjing Yue , Le Zhang , Yihao Liu , Jingyu Yang

Two difficulties here make low-light image enhancement a challenging task; firstly, it needs to consider not only luminance restoration but also image contrast, image denoising and color distortion issues simultaneously. Second, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Wenchao Li , Bangshu Xiong , Qiaofeng Ou , Xiaoyun Long , Jinhao Zhu , Jiabao Chen , Shuyuan Wen

We introduce the AIM 2025 Real-World RAW Image Denoising Challenge, aiming to advance efficient and effective denoising techniques grounded in data synthesis. The competition is built upon a newly established evaluation benchmark featuring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Feiran Li , Jiacheng Li , Marcos V. Conde , Beril Besbinar , Vlad Hosu , Daisuke Iso , Radu Timofte

In the computer vision community, the preference for pre-training visual models has largely shifted toward sRGB images due to their ease of acquisition and compact storage. However, camera RAW images preserve abundant physical details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Ziteng Cui , Jianfei Yang , Tatsuya Harada

sRGB images are now the predominant choice for pre-training visual models in computer vision research, owing to their ease of acquisition and efficient storage. Meanwhile, the advantage of RAW images lies in their rich physical information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Ziteng Cui , Tatsuya Harada

Existing single-image denoising algorithms often struggle to restore details when dealing with complex noisy images. The introduction of near-infrared (NIR) images offers new possibilities for RGB image denoising. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yuchen Wang , Hongyuan Wang , Lizhi Wang , Xin Wang , Lin Zhu , Wanxuan Lu , Hua Huang

Computer vision and image processing applications suffer from dark and low-light images, particularly during real-time image transmission. Currently, low light and dark images are converted to bright and colored forms using autoencoders;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Halil Hüseyin Çalışkan , Talha Koruk

State-of-the-art semantic segmentation methods require sufficient labeled data to achieve good results and hardly work on unseen classes without fine-tuning. Few-shot segmentation is thus proposed to tackle this problem by learning a model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Zhuotao Tian , Hengshuang Zhao , Michelle Shu , Zhicheng Yang , Ruiyu Li , Jiaya Jia

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

Image deraining aims to improve the visibility of images damaged by rainy conditions, targeting the removal of degradation elements such as rain streaks, raindrops, and rain accumulation. While numerous single image deraining methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Fei Yan , Yuhong He , Keyu Chen , En Cheng , Jikang Ma

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

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

Images captured under low-light conditions are often plagued by several challenges, including diminished contrast, increased noise, loss of fine details, and unnatural color reproduction. These factors can significantly hinder the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Miao Zhang , Yiqing Shen , Shenghui Zhong

Low-light image enhancement is a crucial preprocessing task for some complex vision tasks. Target detection, image segmentation, and image recognition outcomes are all directly impacted by the impact of image enhancement. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mengfei Wu , Xucheng Xue , Taiji Lan , Xinwei Xu

Low-Light Image Enhancement is a computer vision task which intensifies the dark images to appropriate brightness. It can also be seen as an ill-posed problem in image restoration domain. With the success of deep neural networks, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Chi-Mao Fan , Tsung-Jung Liu , Kuan-Hsien Liu

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the illumination and visibility of dark images with lighting noise. To handle the real-world low-light images often with heavy and complex noise, some efforts have been made for joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jiahuan Ren , Zhao Zhang , Richang Hong , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang , Shuicheng Yan