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Most super-resolution (SR) models struggle with real-world low-resolution (LR) images. This issue arises because the degradation characteristics in the synthetic datasets differ from those in real-world LR images. Since SR models are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Ru Ito , Supatta Viriyavisuthisakul , Kazuhiko Kawamoto , Hiroshi Kera

This paper introduces the Raw Natural Image Noise Dataset (RawNIND), a diverse collection of paired raw images designed to support the development of denoising models that generalize across sensors, image development workflows, and styles.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Benoit Brummer , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve low-illumination images. However, existing methods face two challenges: (1) uncertainty in restoration from diverse brightness degradations; (2) loss of texture and color information caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xu Wu , XianXu Hou , Zhihui Lai , Jie Zhou , Ya-nan Zhang , Witold Pedrycz , Linlin Shen

We introduce Dark3R, a framework for structure from motion in the dark that operates directly on raw images with signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) below $-4$ dB -- a regime where conventional feature- and learning-based methods break down. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Andrew Y Guo , Anagh Malik , SaiKiran Tedla , Yutong Dai , Yiqian Qin , Zach Salehe , Benjamin Attal , Sotiris Nousias , Kiriakos N. Kutulakos , David B. Lindell

Absence of nearby light sources while capturing an image will degrade the visibility and quality of the captured image, making computer vision tasks difficult. In this paper, a color-wise attention network (CWAN) is proposed for low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yousef Atoum , Mao Ye , Liu Ren , Ying Tai , Xiaoming Liu

Nighttime color constancy still remains a challenging problem in computational photography due to low-light noise and complex illumination conditions. We present RL-AWB, a novel framework combining statistical methods with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yuan-Kang Lee , Kuan-Lin Chen , Chia-Che Chang , Yu-Lun Liu

Near-infrared imaging can capture haze-free near-infrared gray images and visible color images, according to physical scattering models, e.g., Rayleigh or Mie models. However, there exist serious discrepancies in brightness and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Chang-Hwan Son , Xiao-Ping Zhang

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

Imaging and perception in photon-limited scenarios is necessary for various applications, e.g., night surveillance or photography, high-speed photography, and autonomous driving. In these cases, cameras suffer from low signal-to-noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Bo Zhang , Yuchen Guo , Runzhao Yang , Zhihong Zhang , Jiayi Xie , Jinli Suo , Qionghai Dai

Image captured under low-light conditions presents unpleasing artifacts, which debilitate the performance of feature extraction for many upstream visual tasks. Low-light image enhancement aims at improving brightness and contrast, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Zhijian Luo , Jiahui Tang , Yueen Hou , Zihan Huang , Yanzeng Gao

Visual recognition under adverse conditions is a very important and challenging problem of high practical value, due to the ubiquitous existence of quality distortions during image acquisition, transmission, or storage. While deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Ding Liu , Bowen Cheng , Zhangyang Wang , Haichao Zhang , Thomas S. Huang

Light adaptation or brightness correction is a key step in improving the contrast and visual appeal of an image. There are multiple light-related tasks (for example, low-light enhancement and exposure correction) and previous studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Kai-Fu Yang , Cheng Cheng , Shi-Xuan Zhao , Xian-Shi Zhang , Yong-Jie Li

In an era where numerous studies claim to achieve almost photorealism with real-time automated environment capture, there is a need for assessments and reproducibility in this domain. This paper presents a transparent and reproducible user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Sven Kluge , Oliver Staadt

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the visibility of images captured in poorly lit environments. Prevalent event-based solutions primarily utilize events triggered by motion, i.e., ''motion events'' to strengthen only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lei Sun , Yuhan Bao , Jiajun Zhai , Jingyun Liang , Yulun Zhang , Kaiwei Wang , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Outdoor visual localization is a crucial component to many computer vision systems. We propose an approach to localization from images that is designed to explicitly handle the strong variations in appearance happening between daytime and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Hugo Germain , Guillaume Bourmaud , Vincent Lepetit

Images captured in hazy outdoor conditions often suffer from colour distortion, low contrast, and loss of detail, which impair high-level vision tasks. Single image dehazing is essential for applications such as autonomous driving and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Divine Joseph Appiah , Donghai Guan , Abdul Nasser Kasule , Mingqiang Wei

Low-light image enhancement is crucial for a myriad of applications, from night vision and surveillance, to autonomous driving. However, due to the inherent limitations that come in hand with capturing images in low-illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Manjushree Aithal , Rosaura G. VidalMata , Manikandtan Kartha , Gong Chen , Eashan Adhikarla , Lucas N. Kirsten , Zhicheng Fu , Nikhil A. Madhusudhana , Joe Nasti

Colorization is a process that converts a grayscale image into a color one that looks as natural as possible. Over the years this task has received a lot of attention. Existing colorization methods rely on different color spaces: RGB, YUV,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Coloma Ballester , Aurélie Bugeau , Hernan Carrillo , Michaël Clément , Rémi Giraud , Lara Raad , Patricia Vitoria

It is suggested that low-light image enhancement realizes one-to-many mapping since we have different definitions of NORMAL-light given application scenarios or users' aesthetic. However, most existing methods ignore subjectivity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Ya'nan Wang , Zhuqing Jiang , Chang Liu , Kai Li , Aidong Men , Haiying Wang

Deep learning approaches have become the standard solution to many problems in computer vision and robotics, but obtaining sufficient training data in high enough quality is challenging, as human labor is error prone, time consuming, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jan Blumenkamp , Andreas Baude , Tim Laue