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Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a crucial task in computer vision aimed at enhancing the visual fidelity of images captured under low-illumination conditions. Conventional methods frequently struggle with noise, overexposure, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Namrah Siddiqua , Kim Suneung , Seong-Whan Lee

In this paper, we rethink the low-light image enhancement task and propose a physically explainable and generative diffusion model for low-light image enhancement, termed as Diff-Retinex. We aim to integrate the advantages of the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Xunpeng Yi , Han Xu , Hao Zhang , Linfeng Tang , Jiayi Ma

This paper proposes a novel image contrast enhancement method based on both a noise aware shadow-up function and Retinex (retina and cortex) decomposition. Under low light conditions, images taken by digital cameras have low contrast in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Chien Cheng Chien , Yuma Kinoshita , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

Deep learning-based methods have achieved remarkable success in image restoration and enhancement, but are they still competitive when there is a lack of paired training data? As one such example, this paper explores the low-light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Yifan Jiang , Xinyu Gong , Ding Liu , Yu Cheng , Chen Fang , Xiaohui Shen , Jianchao Yang , Pan Zhou , Zhangyang Wang

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is a promising approach for synthesizing novel views, given a set of images and the corresponding camera poses of a scene. However, images photographed from a low-light scene can hardly be used to train a NeRF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Haoyuan Wang , Xiaogang Xu , Ke Xu , Rynson WH. Lau

Recent advancements in large generative models, particularly diffusion-based methods, have significantly enhanced the capabilities of image editing. However, achieving precise control over image composition tasks remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Jinrui Yang , Qing Liu , Yijun Li , Soo Ye Kim , Daniil Pakhomov , Mengwei Ren , Jianming Zhang , Zhe Lin , Cihang Xie , Yuyin Zhou

Low-light images are not conducive to human observation and computer vision algorithms due to their low visibility. Although many image enhancement techniques have been proposed to solve this problem, existing methods inevitably introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Zhenqiang Ying , Ge Li , Wen Gao

In addition to low light, night images suffer degradation from light effects (e.g., glare, floodlight, etc). However, existing nighttime visibility enhancement methods generally focus on low-light regions, which neglects, or even amplifies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shufan Pei , Junhong Lin , Wenxi Liu , Tiesong Zhao , Chia-Wen Lin

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

Many microscopy applications are limited by the total amount of usable light and are consequently challenged by the resulting levels of noise in the acquired images. This problem is often addressed via (supervised) deep learning based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Anna S. Goncharova , Alf Honigmann , Florian Jug , Alexander Krull

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

Bias field, which is caused by imperfect MR devices or imaged objects, introduces intensity inhomogeneity into MR images and degrades the performance of MR image analysis methods. Many retrospective algorithms were developed to facilitate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Dong Liang , Xingyu Qiu , Kuanquan Wang , Gongning Luo , Wei Wang , Yashu Liu

Low light conditions in aerial images adversely affect the performance of several vision based applications. There is a need for methods that can efficiently remove the low light attributes and assist in the performance of key vision tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Prateek Garg , Murari Mandal , Pratik Narang

Deep image generation is becoming a tool to enhance artists and designers creativity potential. In this paper, we aim at making the generation process more structured and easier to interact with. Inspired by vector graphics systems, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Othman Sbai , Camille Couprie , Mathieu Aubry

We present Decomposer, a semi-supervised reconstruction model that decomposes distorted image sequences into their fundamental building blocks - the original image and the applied augmentations, i.e., shadow, light, and occlusions. To solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Boris Meinardus , Mariusz Trzeciakiewicz , Tim Herzig , Monika Kwiatkowski , Simon Matern , Olaf Hellwich

Low-light image denoising and enhancement are challenging, especially when traditional noise assumptions, such as Gaussian noise, do not hold in majority. In many real-world scenarios, such as low-light imaging, noise is signal-dependent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Isha Rao , Ratul Chakraborty , Sanjay Ghosh

The task of extracting intrinsic components, such as reflectance and shading, from neural radiance fields is of growing interest. However, current methods largely focus on synthetic scenes and isolated objects, overlooking the complexities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yixiong Yang , Shilin Hu , Haoyu Wu , Ramon Baldrich , Dimitris Samaras , Maria Vanrell

Object recognition is a critical part of any surveillance system. It is the matter of utmost concern to identify intruders and foreign objects in the area where surveillance is done. The performance of surveillance system using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Aashish Bhandari , Aayush Kafle , Pranjal Dhakal , Prateek Raj Joshi , Dinesh Baniya Kshatri

Existing research based on deep learning has extensively explored the problem of daytime image dehazing. However, few studies have considered the characteristics of nighttime hazy scenes. There are two distinctions between nighttime and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xiaofeng Cong , Jie Gui , Jing Zhang , Junming Hou , Hao Shen

Low-light images, i.e. the images captured in low-light conditions, suffer from very poor visibility caused by low contrast, color distortion and significant measurement noise. Low-light image enhancement is about improving the visibility…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Jinxiu Liang , Yong Xu , Yuhui Quan , Jingwen Wang , Haibin Ling , Hui Ji