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Shadows often create unwanted artifacts in photographs, and removing them can be very challenging. Previous shadow removal methods often produce de-shadowed regions that are visually inconsistent with the rest of the image. In this work we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Liqian Ma , Jue Wang , Eli Shechtman , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Shimin Hu

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) techniques attempt to increase the visibility of images captured in low-light scenarios. However, as a result of enhancement, a variety of image degradations such as noise and color bias are revealed.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Savvas Panagiotou , Anna S. Bosman

We present a deep neural network for removing undesirable shading features from an unconstrained portrait image, recovering the underlying texture. Our training scheme incorporates three regularization strategies: masked loss, to emphasize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Joshua Weir , Junhong Zhao , Andrew Chalmers , Taehyun Rhee

With the goal of tuning up the brightness, low-light image enhancement enjoys numerous applications, such as surveillance, remote sensing and computational photography. Images captured under low-light conditions often suffer from poor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-21 Zhuqing Jiang , Chang Liu , Ya'nan Wang , Kai Li , Aidong Men , Haiying Wang , Haiyong Luo

Images captured under low-light conditions manifest poor visibility, lack contrast and color vividness. Compared to conventional approaches, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well in enhancing images. However, being solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Aditya Arora , Muhammad Haris , Syed Waqas Zamir , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Low-light images captured in the real world are inevitably corrupted by sensor noise. Such noise is spatially variant and highly dependent on the underlying pixel intensity, deviating from the oversimplified assumptions in conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zeyuan Chen , Yifan Jiang , Dong Liu , Zhangyang Wang

Many seemingly unrelated computer vision tasks can be viewed as a special case of image decomposition into separate layers. For example, image segmentation (separation into foreground and background layers); transparent layer separation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yossi Gandelsman , Assaf Shocher , Michal Irani

In digital imaging, enhancing visual content in poorly lit environments is a significant challenge, as images often suffer from inadequate brightness, hidden details, and an overall reduction in quality. This issue is especially critical in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Farzaneh Koohestani , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

High-quality photography in extreme low-light conditions is challenging but impactful for digital cameras. With advanced computing hardware, traditional camera image signal processor (ISP) algorithms are gradually being replaced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Amber Yijia Zheng , Yu Zhang , Jun Hu , Raymond A. Yeh , Chen Chen

Low-light image enhancement is a challenging low-level computer vision task because after we enhance the brightness of the image, we have to deal with amplified noise, color distortion, detail loss, blurred edges, shadow blocks and halo…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Xinxu Wei , Xianshi Zhang , Shisen Wang , Yanlin Huang , Yongjie Li

Existing deep learning-based low-light enhancement methods are typically trained on limited datasets with single enhancement targets, which restricts their generalization ability and controllability in real-world applications. To overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yufeng Yang , Jianzhuang Liu , Jisheng Chu , Yuqi Peng , Xianfang Zeng , Jiancheng Huang , Shifeng Chen

Images captured in weak illumination conditions could seriously degrade the image quality. Solving a series of degradation of low-light images can effectively improve the visual quality of images and the performance of high-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jiang Hai , Zhu Xuan , Songchen Han , Ren Yang , Yutong Hao , Fengzhu Zou , Fang Lin

Motivated by their recent advances, deep learning techniques have been widely applied to low-light image enhancement (LIE) problem. Among which, Retinex theory based ones, mostly following a decomposition-adjustment pipeline, have taken an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Xinyi Liu , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Hong Wang , Deyu Meng

Light field photography has been studied thoroughly in recent years. One of its drawbacks is the need for multi-lens in the imaging. To compensate that, compressed light field photography has been proposed to tackle the trade-offs between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Ofir Nabati , David Mendlovic , Raja Giryes

Intrinsic image decomposition is the process of recovering the image formation components (reflectance and shading) from an image. Previous methods employ either explicit priors to constrain the problem or implicit constraints as formulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Partha Das , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the visibility of degraded images to better align with human visual perception. While diffusion-based methods have shown promising performance due to their strong generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jinhong He , Minglong Xue , Zhipu Liu , Mingliang Zhou , Aoxiang Ning , Palaiahnakote Shivakumara

Low-light images are commonly encountered in real-world scenarios, and numerous low-light image enhancement (LLIE) methods have been proposed to improve the visibility of these images. The primary goal of LLIE is to generate clearer images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Xu Wu , Zhihui Lai , Zhou Jie , Can Gao , Xianxu Hou , Ya-nan Zhang , Linlin Shen

Haze removal is important for computational photography and computer vision applications. However, most of the existing methods for dehazing are designed for daytime images, and cannot always work well in the nighttime. Different from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Jing Zhang , Yang Cao , Zengfu Wang

Rain effect in images typically is annoying for many multimedia and computer vision tasks. For removing rain effect from a single image, deep leaning techniques have been attracting considerable attentions. This paper designs a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Siyuan LI , Wenqi Ren , Jiawan Zhang , Jinke Yu , Xiaojie Guo

To enhance low-light images to normally-exposed ones is highly ill-posed, namely that the mapping relationship between them is one-to-many. Previous works based on the pixel-wise reconstruction losses and deterministic processes fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Haoliang Li , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot