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Lacking rich and realistic data, learned single image denoising algorithms generalize poorly to real raw images that do not resemble the data used for training. Although the problem can be alleviated by the heteroscedastic Gaussian model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-10 Kaixuan Wei , Ying Fu , Jiaolong Yang , Hua Huang

Images captured under low-light conditions often suffer from (partially) poor visibility. Besides unsatisfactory lightings, multiple types of degradations, such as noise and color distortion due to the limited quality of cameras, hide in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yonghua Zhang , Jiawan Zhang , Xiaojie Guo

When taking photos under an environment with insufficient light, the exposure time and the sensor gain usually require to be carefully chosen to obtain images with satisfying visual quality. For example, the images with high ISO usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Zhilu Zhang , Rongjian Xu , Ming Liu , Zifei Yan , Wangmeng Zuo

In surveillance, monitoring and tactical reconnaissance, gathering the right visual information from a dynamic environment and accurately processing such data are essential ingredients to making informed decisions which determines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Kin Gwn Lore , Adedotun Akintayo , Soumik Sarkar

Image acquisition in low-light conditions suffers from poor quality and significant degradation in visual aesthetics. This affects the visual perception of the acquired image and the performance of various computer vision and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Sumit Shekhar , Max Reimann , Amir Semmo , Sebastian Pasewaldt , Jürgen Döllner , Matthias Trapp

Saliency detection methods are central to several real-world applications such as robot navigation and satellite imagery. However, the performance of existing methods deteriorate under low-light conditions because training datasets mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Kitty Varghese , Sudarshan Rajagopalan , Mohit Lamba , Kaushik Mitra

When taking photos in dim-light environments, due to the small amount of light entering, the shot images are usually extremely dark, with a great deal of noise, and the color cannot reflect real-world color. Under this condition, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Di Zhao , Lan Ma , Songnan Li , Dahai Yu

Low-light image enhancement is challenging in that it needs to consider not only brightness recovery but also complex issues like color distortion and noise, which usually hide in the dark. Simply adjusting the brightness of a low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Feifan Lv , Yu Li , Feng Lu

Low light images captured in a non-uniform illumination environment usually are degraded with the scene depth and the corresponding environment lights. This degradation results in severe object information loss in the degraded image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Xin Xu , Shiqin Wang , Zheng Wang , Xiaolong Zhang , Ruimin Hu

In this paper, we tackle the problem of enhancing real-world low-light images with significant noise in an unsupervised fashion. Conventional unsupervised learning-based approaches usually tackle the low-light image enhancement problem…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Wei Xiong , Ding Liu , Xiaohui Shen , Chen Fang , Jiebo Luo

Images captured under extremely low light conditions are noise-limited, which can cause existing robotic vision algorithms to fail. In this paper we develop an image processing technique for aiding 3D reconstruction from images acquired in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ahalya Ravendran , Mitch Bryson , Donald G. Dansereau

Scene inference under low-light is a challenging problem due to severe noise in the captured images. One way to reduce noise is to use longer exposure during the capture. However, in the presence of motion (scene or camera motion), longer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Bhavya Goyal , Jean-François Lalonde , Yin Li , Mohit Gupta

Low-light photography produces images with low signal-to-noise ratios due to limited photons. In such conditions, common approximations like the Gaussian noise model fall short, and many denoising techniques fail to remove noise…

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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

We address the problem of non-blind deblurring and demosaicking of noisy raw images. We adapt an existing learning-based approach to RGB image deblurring to handle raw images by introducing a new interpretable module that jointly demosaicks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Thomas Eboli , Jian Sun , Jean Ponce

The task of image deblurring is a very ill-posed problem as both the image and the blur are unknown. Moreover, when pictures are taken in the wild, this task becomes even more challenging due to the blur varying spatially and the occlusions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Mehdi Noroozi , Paramanand Chandramouli , Paolo Favaro

Recent studies on learning-based image denoising have achieved promising performance on various noise reduction tasks. Most of these deep denoisers are trained either under the supervision of clean references, or unsupervised on synthetic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Rui Zhao , Daniel P. K. Lun , Kin-Man Lam

Image reconstruction from noisy sensor measurements is challenging and many methods have been proposed for it. Yet, most approaches focus on learning robust natural image priors while modeling the scene's noise statistics. In extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Erez Yosef , Raja Giryes

Intrinsic image decomposition aims to separate the surface reflectance and the effects from the illumination given a single photograph. Due to the complexity of the problem, most prior works assume a single-color illumination and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Chris Careaga , Yağız Aksoy

The ability to record high-fidelity videos at high acquisition rates is central to the study of fast moving phenomena. The difficulty of imaging fast moving scenes lies in a trade-off between motion blur and underexposure noise: On the one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Weihao Zhuang , Tristan Hascoet , Ryoichi Takashima , Tetsuya Takiguchi