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Complex image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from inputs affected by multiple degradations such as blur, noise, rain, and compression artifacts. Recent restoration agents, powered by vision-language models and large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jianglin Lu , Yuanwei Wu , Ziyi Zhao , Hongcheng Wang , Felix Jimenez , Abrar Majeedi , Yun Fu

Low-light video enhancement (LLVE) is an important yet challenging task with many applications such as photographing and autonomous driving. Unlike single image low-light enhancement, most LLVE methods utilize temporal information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Lin Liu , Junfeng An , Jianzhuang Liu , Shanxin Yuan , Xiangyu Chen , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

Enhancing images in low-light scenes is a challenging but widely concerned task in the computer vision. The mainstream learning-based methods mainly acquire the enhanced model by learning the data distribution from the specific scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Long Ma , Dian Jin , Nan An , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Low-light images challenge both human perceptions and computer vision algorithms. It is crucial to make algorithms robust to enlighten low-light images for computational photography and computer vision applications such as real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Shen Zheng , Gaurav Gupta

Recent advances in Image Quality Assessment (IQA) have leveraged Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to generate descriptive explanations. However, despite their strong visual perception modules, these models often fail to reliably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yuan Li , Zitang Sun , Yen-Ju Chen , Shin'ya Nishida

Underwater image enhancement is such an important low-level vision task with many applications that numerous algorithms have been proposed in recent years. These algorithms developed upon various assumptions demonstrate successes from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Risheng Liu , Xin Fan , Ming Zhu , Minjun Hou , Zhongxuan Luo

With the development of deep learning, numerous methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) have demonstrated remarkable performance. Mainstream LLIE methods typically learn an end-to-end mapping based on pairs of low-light and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jiahui Tang , Kaihua Zhou , Zhijian Luo , Yueen Hou

Recently, it has been shown that in super-resolution, there exists a tradeoff relationship between the quantitative and perceptual quality of super-resolved images, which correspond to the similarity to the ground-truth images and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Jun-Ho Choi , Jun-Hyuk Kim , Manri Cheon , Jong-Seok Lee

Images captured from low-light scenes often suffer from severe degradations, including low visibility, color cast and intensive noises, etc. These factors not only affect image qualities, but also degrade the performance of downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Risheng Liu , Long Ma , Tengyu Ma , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

Assessing the blurriness of an object image is fundamentally important to improve the performance for object recognition and retrieval. The main challenge lies in the lack of abundant images with reliable labels and effective learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Qiang Li , Zhaoliang Yao , Jingjing Wang , Ye Tian , Pengju Yang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

In this paper, we study the problem of making brighter images from dark images found in the wild. The images are dark because they are taken in dim environments. They suffer from color shifts caused by quantization and from sensor noise. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Sara Aghajanzadeh , David Forsyth

Event cameras offer significant advantages for low-light video enhancement, primarily due to their high dynamic range. Current research, however, is severely limited by the absence of large-scale, real-world, and spatio-temporally aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Kanghao Chen , Guoqiang Liang , Hangyu Li , Yunfan Lu , Lin Wang

Low-light images often suffer from limited visibility and multiple types of degradation, rendering low-light image enhancement (LIE) a non-trivial task. Some endeavors have been recently made to enhance low-light images using convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zixiang Wei , Yiting Wang , Lichao Sun , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Lin Wang

In-context learning (ICL) enables Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) to adapt to new tasks without parameter updates, using a few demonstrations from a large support set. However, selecting informative demonstrations leads to high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Huiyi Chen , Jiawei Peng , Kaihua Tang , Xin Geng , Xu Yang

In this paper we use a logarithmic model for gray level image enhancement. We begin with a short presentation of the model and then, we propose a new formula for the mean dynamic range. After that we present two image transforms: one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Vasile Patrascu

Existing low-light image enhancement techniques are mostly not only difficult to deal with both visual quality and computational efficiency but also commonly invalid in unknown complex scenarios. In this paper, we develop a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Long Ma , Tengyu Ma , Risheng Liu , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

Despite the impressive performance of large multimodal models (LMMs) in high-level visual tasks, their capacity for image quality assessment (IQA) remains limited. One main reason is that LMMs are primarily trained for high-level tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Baoliang Chen , Siyi Pan , Dongxu Wu , Liang Xie , Xiangjie Sui , Lingyu Zhu , Hanwei Zhu

Automatic image aesthetics assessment is a computer vision problem dealing with categorizing images into different aesthetic levels. The categorization is usually done by analyzing an input image and computing some measure of the degree to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Abbas Anwar , Saira Kanwal , Muhammad Tahir , Muhammad Saqib , Muhammad Uzair , Mohammad Khalid Imam Rahmani , Habib Ullah

In this paper, we present a simple yet highly effective "free lunch" solution for low-light image enhancement (LLIE), which aims to restore low-light images as if acquired in well-illuminated environments. Our method necessitates no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Joshua Cho , Sara Aghajanzadeh , Zhen Zhu , D. A. Forsyth

To guarantee a satisfying Quality of Experience (QoE) for consumers, it is required to measure image quality efficiently and reliably. The neglect of the high-level semantic information may result in predicting a clear blue sky as bad…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-19 Dingquan Li , Tingting Jiang , Ming Jiang