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Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) investigates how to improve illumination and produce normal-light images. The majority of existing methods improve low-light images via a global and uniform manner, without taking into account the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Yuhui Wu , Chen Pan , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Jiwei Wei , Chongyi Li , Heng Tao Shen

Ultra-Wide-Field (UWF) retinal imaging has revolutionized retinal diagnostics by providing a comprehensive view of the retina. However, it often suffers from quality-degrading factors such as blurring and uneven illumination, which obscure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Weicheng Liao , Zan Chen , Jianyang Xie , Yalin Zheng , Yuhui Ma , Yitian Zhao

Deep learning has led to remarkable advances in computer vision. Even so, today's best models are brittle when presented with variations that differ even slightly from those seen during training. Minor shifts in the pose, color, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Mark Ibrahim , Diane Bouchacourt , Ari Morcos

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is a promising approach for synthesizing novel views, given a set of images and the corresponding camera poses of a scene. However, images photographed from a low-light scene can hardly be used to train a NeRF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Haoyuan Wang , Xiaogang Xu , Ke Xu , Rynson WH. Lau

Existing low-light image enhancement (LIE) methods have achieved noteworthy success in solving synthetic distortions, yet they often fall short in practical applications. The limitations arise from two inherent challenges in real-world LIE:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Yunlong Lin , Tian Ye , Sixiang Chen , Zhenqi Fu , Yingying Wang , Wenhao Chai , Zhaohu Xing , Lei Zhu , Xinghao Ding

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) is a key task in computational photography and imaging. The problem of enhancing images captured during night or in dark environments has been well-studied in the computer vision literature. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Juan C. Benito , Daniel Feijoo , Alvaro Garcia , Marcos V. Conde

This paper focuses on finding the most optimal pre-processing methods considering three common algorithms for image enhancement: Brightening, CLAHE and Retinex. For the purpose of image training in general, these methods will be combined to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Thi Phuoc Hanh Nguyen , Zinan Cai , Khanh Nguyen , Sokuntheariddh Keth , Ningyuan Shen , Mira Park

Intrinsic image decomposition is the process of separating the reflectance and shading layers of an image, which is a challenging and underdetermined problem. In this paper, we propose to systematically address this problem using a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Sai Bi , Nima Khademi Kalantari , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) techniques attempt to increase the visibility of images captured in low-light scenarios. However, as a result of enhancement, a variety of image degradations such as noise and color bias are revealed.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Savvas Panagiotou , Anna S. Bosman

Restoring images from low-light data is a challenging problem. Most existing deep-network based algorithms are designed to be trained with pairwise images. Due to the lack of real-world datasets, they usually perform poorly when generalized…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Yangyang Qu , Chao liu , Yongsheng Ou

We present a deep neural network for removing undesirable shading features from an unconstrained portrait image, recovering the underlying texture. Our training scheme incorporates three regularization strategies: masked loss, to emphasize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Joshua Weir , Junhong Zhao , Andrew Chalmers , Taehyun Rhee

Noise, artifacts, and over-exposure are significant challenges in the field of low-light image enhancement. Existing methods often struggle to address these issues simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a novel Retinex-based method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yu Wang , Yihong Wang , Tong Liu , Xiubao Sui , Qian Chen

Photography during night or in dark conditions typically suffers from noise, low light and blurring issues due to the dim environment and the common use of long exposure. Although Deblurring and Low-light Image Enhancement (LLIE) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Daniel Feijoo , Juan C. Benito , Alvaro Garcia , Marcos V. Conde

Evaluating the performance of low-light image enhancement (LLE) is highly subjective, thus making integrating human preferences into image enhancement a necessity. Existing methods fail to consider this and present a series of potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Ling Li , Dong Liang , Yuanhang Gao , Sheng-Jun Huang , Songcan Chen

Retinex-based low-light image enhancement benefits from separating reflectance and illumination, yet recent generative approaches often rely on iterative sampling and are difficult to deploy under strict latency budgets. Consistency models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jian Xu , Wei Chen , Shigui Li , Delu Zeng , John Paisley , Qibin Zhao

Deploying 3D single-photon Lidar imaging in real world applications faces multiple challenges including imaging in high noise environments. Several algorithms have been proposed to address these issues based on statistical or learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Jakeoung Koo , Abderrahim Halimi , Stephen McLaughlin

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve illumination while preserving high-quality color and texture. However, existing methods often fail to extract reliable feature representations due to severely degraded pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xu Wu , Zhihui Lai , Xianxu Hou , Jie Zhou , Ya-nan Zhang , Linlin Shen

This paper proposes a new light-weight convolutional neural network (5k parameters) for non-uniform illumination image enhancement to handle color, exposure, contrast, noise and artifacts, etc., simultaneously and effectively. More…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Feifan Lv , Bo Liu , Feng Lu

Blind image deblurring is an important yet very challenging problem in low-level vision. Traditional optimization based methods generally formulate this task as a maximum-a-posteriori estimation or variational inference problem, whose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Hui Wang , Zongsheng Yue , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng

Regularization by denoising (RED) is an image reconstruction framework that uses an image denoiser as a prior. Recent work has shown the state-of-the-art performance of RED with learned denoisers corresponding to pre-trained convolutional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Jiaming Liu , Yu Sun , Cihat Eldeniz , Weijie Gan , Hongyu An , Ulugbek S. Kamilov