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Despite recent success of object detectors using deep neural networks, their deployment on safety-critical applications such as self-driving cars remains questionable. This is partly due to the absence of reliable estimation for detectors'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Yongxin Wang , Duminda Wijesekera

Lensless cameras relax the design constraints of traditional cameras by shifting image formation from analog optics to digital post-processing. While new camera designs and applications can be enabled, lensless imaging is very sensitive to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Eric Bezzam , Stefan Peters , Martin Vetterli

Image signal processors (ISPs) are historically grown legacy software systems for reconstructing color images from noisy raw sensor measurements. They are usually composited of many heuristic blocks for denoising, demosaicking, and color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Matheus Souza , Wolfgang Heidrich

Digital cameras transform sensor RAW readings into RGB images by means of their Image Signal Processor (ISP). Computational photography tasks such as image denoising and colour constancy are commonly performed in the RAW domain, in part due…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Marcos V. Conde , Steven McDonagh , Matteo Maggioni , Aleš Leonardis , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

Imaging under extremely low-light conditions presents a significant challenge and is an ill-posed problem due to the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) caused by minimal photon capture. Previously, diffusion models have been used for multiple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Rishit Dagli

An image processing unit (IPU), or image signal processor (ISP) for high dynamic range (HDR) imaging usually consists of demosaicing, white balancing, lens shading correction, color correction, denoising, and tone-mapping. Besides noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Litao Hu , Huaijin Chen , Jan P. Allebach

Existing instance segmentation techniques are primarily tailored for high-visibility inputs, but their performance significantly deteriorates in extremely low-light environments. In this work, we take a deep look at instance segmentation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Linwei Chen , Ying Fu , Kaixuan Wei , Dezhi Zheng , Felix Heide

This paper presents a novel approach for enabling robust robotic perception in dark environments using infrared (IR) stream. IR stream is less susceptible to noise than RGB in low-light conditions. However, it is dominated by active emitter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Nathan Shankar , Pawel Ladosz , Hujun Yin

Challenging illumination conditions (low-light, under-exposure and over-exposure) in the real world not only cast an unpleasant visual appearance but also taint the computer vision tasks. After camera captures the raw-RGB data, it renders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Ziteng Cui , Kunchang Li , Lin Gu , Shenghan Su , Peng Gao , Zhengkai Jiang , Yu Qiao , Tatsuya Harada

Spike cameras, as innovative neuromorphic devices, generate continuous spike streams to capture high-speed scenes with lower bandwidth and higher dynamic range than traditional RGB cameras. However, reconstructing high-quality images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Kang Chen , Yajing Zheng , Tiejun Huang , Zhaofei Yu

Imaging systems' performance at low light intensity is affected by shot noise, which becomes increasingly strong as the power of the light source decreases. In this paper we experimentally demonstrate the use of deep neural networks to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-19 Alexandre Goy , Kwabena Arthur , Shuai Li , George Barbastathis

Low light images suffer from severe noise, low brightness, low contrast, etc. In previous researches, many image enhancement methods have been proposed, but few methods can deal with these problems simultaneously. In this paper, to solve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Bin Zhang , Ruihang Ji , Chunhui Wang

Low-light image enhancement is generally regarded as a challenging task in image processing, especially for the complex visual tasks at night or weakly illuminated. In order to reduce the blurs or noises on the low-light images, a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Yangming Shi , Xiaopo Wu , Ming Zhu

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

Infrared Small Target Detection (IRSTD) faces significant challenges due to low signal-to-noise ratios, complex backgrounds, and the absence of discernible target features. While deep learning-based encoder-decoder frameworks have advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xuelin Qian , Jiaming Lu , Zixuan Wang , Wenxuan Wang , Zhongling Huang , Dingwen Zhang , Junwei Han

Low-light imaging with handheld mobile devices is a challenging issue. Limited by the existing models and training data, most existing methods cannot be effectively applied in real scenarios. In this paper, we propose a new low-light image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Meng Chang , Huajun Feng , Zhihai Xu , Qi Li

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) remains challenging when learning object localization models from image category labels. Conventional methods that discriminatively train activation models ignore representative yet less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yuzhong Zhao , Qixiang Ye , Weijia Wu , Chunhua Shen , Fang Wan

This study aims to learn a translation from visible to infrared imagery, bridging the domain gap between the two modalities so as to improve accuracy on downstream tasks including object detection. Previous approaches attempt to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Prahlad Anand , Qiranul Saadiyean , Aniruddh Sikdar , Nalini N , Suresh Sundaram

Deep learning-based methods have made impressive progress in enhancing extremely low-light images - the image quality of the reconstructed images has generally improved. However, we found out that most of these methods could not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Pohao Hsu , Che-Tsung Lin , Chun Chet Ng , Jie-Long Kew , Mei Yih Tan , Shang-Hong Lai , Chee Seng Chan , Christopher Zach

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