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Enhancing low-light images while maintaining natural colors is a challenging problem due to camera processing variations and limited access to photos with ground-truth lighting conditions. The latter is a crucial factor for supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wojciech Kozłowski , Michał Szachniewicz , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba

As vision based perception methods are usually built on the normal light assumption, there will be a serious safety issue when deploying them into low light environments. Recently, deep learning based methods have been proposed to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Junjie Hu , Xiyue Guo , Junfeng Chen , Guanqi Liang , Fuqin Deng , Tin lun Lam

Raw images taken in low-light conditions are very noisy due to low photon count and sensor noise. Learning-based denoisers have the potential to reconstruct high-quality images. For training, however, these denoisers require large paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Liying Lu , Raphaël Achddou , Sabine Süsstrunk

This paper introduces a novel lightweight computational framework for enhancing images under low-light conditions, utilizing advanced machine learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional enhancement techniques often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhuoheng Li , Yuheng Pan , Houcheng Yu , Zhiheng Zhang

Due to the low accuracy of object detection and recognition in many intelligent surveillance systems at nighttime, the quality of night images is crucial. Compared with the corresponding daytime image, nighttime image is characterized as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Xinyi Bai , Steffi Agino Priyanka , Hsiao-Jung Tung , Yuankai Wang

Collections of images under a single, uncontrolled illumination have enabled the rapid advancement of core computer vision tasks like classification, detection, and segmentation. But even with modern learning techniques, many inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Lukas Murmann , Michael Gharbi , Miika Aittala , Fredo Durand

Image/video denoising in low-light scenes is an extremely challenging problem due to limited photon count and high noise. In this paper, we propose a novel approach with contrastive learning to address this issue. Inspired by the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Taoyong Cui , Yuhan Dong

This paper considers matching images of low-light scenes, aiming to widen the frontier of SfM and visual SLAM applications. Recent image sensors can record the brightness of scenes with more than eight-bit precision, available in their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Wenzheng Song , Masanori Suganuma , Xing Liu , Noriyuki Shimobayashi , Daisuke Maruta , Takayuki Okatani

All existing image enhancement methods, such as HDR tone mapping, cannot recover A/D quantization losses due to insufficient or excessive lighting, (underflow and overflow problems). The loss of image details due to A/D quantization is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Chang Liu , Xiaolin Wu , Xiao Shu

Imaging in low-light environments is challenging due to reduced scene radiance, which leads to elevated sensor noise and reduced color saturation. Most learning-based low-light enhancement methods rely on paired training data captured under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Maria Pilligua , David Serrano-Lozano , Pai Peng , Ramon Baldrich , Michael S. Brown , Javier Vazquez-Corral

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated prominent performance in novel view synthesis. However, their input heavily relies on image acquisition under normal light conditions, making it challenging to learn accurate scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Min Wang , Xin Huang , Guoqing Zhou , Qifeng Guo , Qing Wang

Image retrieval under varying illumination conditions, such as day and night images, is addressed by image preprocessing, both hand-crafted and learned. Prior to extracting image descriptors by a convolutional neural network, images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Tomas Jenicek , Ondřej Chum

Casual photography is often performed in uncontrolled lighting that can result in low quality images and degrade the performance of downstream processing. We consider the problem of estimating surface normal and reflectance maps of scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Zhihao Xia , Jason Lawrence , Supreeth Achar

Most existing super-resolution methods do not perform well in real scenarios due to lack of realistic training data and information loss of the model input. To solve the first problem, we propose a new pipeline to generate realistic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Xiangyu Xu , Yongrui Ma , Wenxiu Sun

Multiple low-vision tasks such as denoising, deblurring and super-resolution depart from RGB images and further reduce the degradations, improving the quality. However, modeling the degradations in the sRGB domain is complicated because of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Marcos V. Conde , Florin Vasluianu , Radu Timofte

Enhancing the visibility in extreme low-light environments is a challenging task. Under nearly lightless condition, existing image denoising methods could easily break down due to significantly low SNR. In this paper, we systematically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Kaixuan Wei , Ying Fu , Yinqiang Zheng , Jiaolong Yang

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

Low-light imaging on mobile devices is typically challenging due to insufficient incident light coming through the relatively small aperture, resulting in a low signal-to-noise ratio. Most of the previous works on low-light image processing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Yucheng Lu , Seung-Won Jung

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

Object detection and semantic segmentation are two of the most widely adopted deep learning algorithms in agricultural applications. One of the major sources of variability in image quality acquired in the outdoors for such tasks is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Abhisesh Silwal , Tanvir Parhar , Francisco Yandun , George Kantor