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In this paper, we present a novel low-light image enhancement method called dark region-aware low-light image enhancement (DALE), where dark regions are accurately recognized by the proposed visual attention module and their brightness are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-31 Dokyeong Kwon , Guisik Kim , Junseok Kwon

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

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve an image's visibility while keeping its visual naturalness. Different from existing methods tending to accomplish the relighting task directly by ignoring the fidelity and naturalness recovery, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Kui Jiang , Zhongyuan Wang , Zheng Wang , Chen Chen , Peng Yi , Tao Lu , Chia-Wen Lin

Low-light hazy scenes commonly appear at dusk and early morning. The visual enhancement for low-light hazy images is an ill-posed problem. Even though numerous methods have been proposed for image dehazing and low-light enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Chaoqun Zhuang , Yunfei Liu , Sijia Wen , Feng Lu

Image compression has been applied in the fields of image storage and video broadcasting. However, it's formidably tough to distinguish the subtle quality differences between those distorted images generated by different algorithms. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Kaiqun Wu , Xiaoling Jiang , Rui Yu , Yonggang Luo , Tian Jiang , Xi Wu , Peng Wei

Over the years, various algorithms were developed, attempting to imitate the Human Visual System (HVS), and evaluate the perceptual image quality. However, for certain image distortions, the functionality of the HVS continues to be an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin , Or Shimshi

Due to the wide dynamic range in real low-light scenes, there will be large differences in the degree of contrast degradation and detail blurring of captured images, making it difficult for existing end-to-end methods to enhance low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Haodian Wang , Long Peng , Yuejin Sun , Zengyu Wan , Yang Wang , Yang Cao

Contemporary image generation systems have achieved high fidelity and superior aesthetic quality beyond basic text-image alignment. However, existing evaluation frameworks have failed to evolve in parallel. This study reveals that human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ying Ba , Tianyu Zhang , Yalong Bai , Wenyi Mo , Tao Liang , Bing Su , Ji-Rong Wen

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the visual quality of images captured under poor lighting conditions. In supervised LLIE research, there exists a significant yet often overlooked inconsistency between the overall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jingxi Liao , Shijie Hao , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

Image enhancement is an important image processing technique that processes images suitably for a specific application e.g. image editing. The conventional solutions of image enhancement are grouped into two categories which are spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Hui Li , Xiaomeng Wang , Weifeng Liu , Yanjiang Wang

Evaluating text-to-vision content hinges on two crucial aspects: visual quality and alignment. While significant progress has been made in developing objective models to assess these dimensions, the performance of such models heavily relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zicheng Zhang , Tengchuan Kou , Shushi Wang , Chunyi Li , Wei Sun , Wei Wang , Xiaoyu Li , Zongyu Wang , Xuezhi Cao , Xiongkuo Min , Xiaohong Liu , Guangtao Zhai

Learning-based image compression methods have emerged as state-of-the-art, showcasing higher performance compared to conventional compression solutions. These data-driven approaches aim to learn the parameters of a neural network model…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Shima Mohammadi , Yaojun Wu , João Ascenso

Despite recent advances in image enhancement, it remains difficult for existing approaches to adaptively improve the brightness and contrast for both low-light and normal-light images. To solve this problem, we propose a novel 2D histogram…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Xiaomeng Wu , Yongqing Sun , Akisato Kimura , Kunio Kashino

Current deep learning methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) typically rely on pixel-wise mapping learned from paired data. However, these methods often overlook the importance of considering degradation representations, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ziqian Shao , Wenhan Luo , Bjorn Stenger , Tae-Kyun Kim , Wei Liu , Hongdong Li

Since the low quality of document images will greatly undermine the chances of success in automatic text recognition and analysis, it is necessary to assess the quality of document images uploaded in online business process, so as to reject…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Hongyu Li , Fan Zhu , Junhua Qiu

In this paper, we address the well-known image quality assessment problem but in contrast from existing approaches that predict image quality independently for every images, we propose to jointly model different images depicting the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Marcelin Tworski , Stéphane Lathuilière

Learning a typical image enhancement pipeline involves minimization of a loss function between enhanced and reference images. While L1 and L2 losses are perhaps the most widely used functions for this purpose, they do not necessarily lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Hossein Talebi , Peyman Milanfar

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

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

There are several images that do not have uniform brightness which pose a challenging problem for image enhancement systems. As histogram equalization has been successfully used to correct for uniform brightness problems, a histogram…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Chelsy Sapna Josephus , S. Remya