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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

Low-light images suffer from severe noise and low illumination. Current deep learning models that are trained with real-world images have excellent noise reduction, but a ratio parameter must be chosen manually to complete the enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Qingxu Fu , Xiaoguang Di , Yu Zhang

Current deep learning-based low-light image enhancement methods often struggle with high-resolution images, and fail to meet the practical demands of visual perception across diverse and unseen scenarios. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Tomáš Chobola , Yu Liu , Hanyi Zhang , Julia A. Schnabel , Tingying Peng

Low-light conditions have an adverse impact on machine cognition, limiting the performance of computer vision systems in real life. Since low-light data is limited and difficult to annotate, we focus on image processing to enhance low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Igor Morawski , Kai He , Shusil Dangi , Winston H. Hsu

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) is crucial for improving both human perception and computer vision tasks. This paper addresses two challenges in zero-reference LLIE: obtaining perceptually 'good' images using the Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito

Image enhancement is a common technique used to mitigate issues such as severe noise, low brightness, low contrast, and color deviation in low-light images. However, providing an optimal high-light image as a reference for low-light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Junde Wu , Rao Fu , Yong Li , Yue Wang , Yanwu Xu , Guohui Yang , Chunhui Wang

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

The usage of digital content (photos and videos) in a variety of applications has increased due to the popularity of multimedia devices. These uses include advertising campaigns, educational resources, and social networking platforms. There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Muhammad Turab

Poor image quality in low light images may result in a reduced number of feature matching between images. In this paper, we investigate the performance of feature extraction algorithms in low light environments. To find an optimal setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Pranjay Shyam , Antyanta Bangunharcana , Kyung-Soo Kim

Contrast enhancement and noise removal are coupled problems for low-light image enhancement. The existing Retinex based methods do not take the coupling relation into consideration, resulting in under or over-smoothing of the enhanced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Yang Wang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jing Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Wei Zhang , Feng Wu

Low-light image enhancement remains a challenging task, particularly in the absence of paired training data. In this study, we present LucentVisionNet, a novel zero-shot learning framework that addresses the limitations of traditional and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Hassan Khalid , Nisar Ahmed

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) has traditionally been formulated as a deterministic mapping. However, this paradigm often struggles to account for the ill-posed nature of the task, where unknown ambient conditions and sensor parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Hongru Han , Tingrui Guo , Liming Zhang , Yan Su , Qiwen Xu , Zhuohua Ye

Principle objective of Image enhancement is to process an image so that result is more suitable than original image for specific application. Digital image enhancement techniques provide a multitude of choices for improving the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-23 Raman Maini , Himanshu Aggarwal

Low-level enhancement and high-level visual understanding in low-light vision have traditionally been treated separately. Low-light enhancement improves image quality for downstream tasks, but existing methods rely on physical or geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Sen Wang , Shao Zeng , Tianjun Gu , Zhizhong Zhang , Ruixin Zhang , Shouhong Ding , Jingyun Zhang , Jun Wang , Xin Tan , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

Images acquired in low-light environments present significant obstacles for computer vision systems and human perception, especially for applications requiring accurate object recognition and scene analysis. Such images typically manifest…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Bibhabasu Debnath , Sahana Ray , Sanjay Ghosh

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

Low-light images captured in the real world are inevitably corrupted by sensor noise. Such noise is spatially variant and highly dependent on the underlying pixel intensity, deviating from the oversimplified assumptions in conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zeyuan Chen , Yifan Jiang , Dong Liu , Zhangyang Wang

Recently, Users Generated Content (UGC) videos becomes ubiquitous in our daily lives. However, due to the limitations of photographic equipments and techniques, UGC videos often contain various degradations, in which one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yunlong Dong , Xiaohong Liu , Yixuan Gao , Xunchu Zhou , Tao Tan , Guangtao Zhai

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) represents a significant improvement in patient safety through lower radiation doses, but increased noise, blur, and contrast loss can diminish diagnostic quality. Therefore, consistency and robustness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Kagan Celik , Mehmet Ozan Unal , Metin Ertas , Isa Yildirim

This survey aims at reviewing recent computer vision techniques used in the assessment of image aesthetic quality. Image aesthetic assessment aims at computationally distinguishing high-quality photos from low-quality ones based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Yubin Deng , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang