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A low-light image enhancement is a highly demanded image processing technique, especially for consumer digital cameras and cameras on mobile phones. In this paper, a gradient-based low-light image enhancement algorithm is proposed. The key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Masayuki Tanaka , Takashi Shibata , Masatoshi Okutomi

2D face analysis techniques, such as face landmarking, face recognition and face verification, are reasonably dependent on illumination conditions which are usually uncontrolled and unpredictable in the real world. An illumination robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Wuming Zhang , Xi Zhao , Jean-Marie Morvan , Liming Chen

Faithful manipulation of shape, material, and illumination in 2D Internet images would greatly benefit from a reliable factorization of appearance into material (i.e., diffuse and specular) and illumination (i.e., environment maps). On the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Tuanfeng Y. Wang , Tobias Ritschel , Niloy J. Mitra

Image enhancement is an important image processing technique that processes images suitably for a specific application e.g. image editing. The conventional solutions of image enhancement are grouped into two categories which are spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Hui Li , Xiaomeng Wang , Weifeng Liu , Yanjiang Wang

We present a differentiable framework to adaptively compute 4D illumination conditions with respect to an object, for efficient, high-quality simultaneous acquisition of its shape and reflectance, with a unified spatial-angular structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Huakeng Ding , Yaowen Chen , Kun Zhou , Hongzhi Wu

Many low-light enhancement methods ignore intensive noise in original images. As a result, they often simultaneously enhance the noise as well. Furthermore, extra denoising procedures adopted by most methods ruin the details. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Xutong Ren , Mading Li , Wen-Huang Cheng , Jiaying Liu

This paper presents a novel and efficient image enhancement method based on pigment representation. Unlike conventional methods where the color transformation is restricted to pre-defined color spaces like RGB, our method dynamically adapts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Se-Ho Lee , Keunsoo Ko , Seung-Wook Kim

In modern display technology and visualization tools, downscaling images is one of the most important activities. This procedure aims to maintain both visual authenticity and structural integrity while reducing the dimensions of an image at…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Suvrojit Mitra , G B Kevin Arjun , Sanjay Ghosh

This paper proposes a new light-weight convolutional neural network (5k parameters) for non-uniform illumination image enhancement to handle color, exposure, contrast, noise and artifacts, etc., simultaneously and effectively. More…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Feifan Lv , Bo Liu , Feng Lu

To achieve visual consistency in composite images, recent image harmonization methods typically summarize the appearance pattern of global background and apply it to the global foreground without location discrepancy. However, for a real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Ziyue Zhu , Zhao Zhang , Zheng Lin , Ruiqi Wu , Zhi Chai , Chun-Le Guo

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

Low-light image enhancement is a promising solution to tackle the problem of insufficient sensitivity of human vision system (HVS) to perceive information in low light environments. Previous Retinex-based works always accomplish enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-18 Xiaoxiao Li , Xiaopeng Guo , Liye Mei , Mingyu Shang , Jie Gao , Maojing Shu , Xiang Wang

Low light very likely leads to the degradation of an image's quality and even causes visual task failures. Existing image enhancement technologies are prone to overenhancement, color distortion or time consumption, and their adaptability is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Xiaozhou Lei , Zixiang Fei , Wenju Zhou , Huiyu Zhou , Minrui Fei

We present an approach to enhancing the realism of synthetic images. The images are enhanced by a convolutional network that leverages intermediate representations produced by conventional rendering pipelines. The network is trained via a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Stephan R. Richter , Hassan Abu AlHaija , Vladlen Koltun

Increasing the visibility of nighttime hazy images is challenging because of uneven illumination from active artificial light sources and haze absorbing/scattering. The absence of large-scale benchmark datasets hampers progress in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jing Zhang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Dacheng Tao

Most scenes are illuminated by several light sources, where the traditional assumption of uniform illumination is invalid. This issue is ignored in most color constancy methods, primarily due to the complex spatial impact of multiple light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Umut Cem Entok , Firas Laakom , Farhad Pakdaman , Moncef Gabbouj

Image hallucination and super-resolution have been studied for decades, and many approaches have been proposed to upsample low-resolution images using information from the images themselves, multiple example images, or large image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Chieh-Chi Kao , Yuxiang Wang , Jonathan Waltman , Pradeep Sen

To be robust to illumination changes when detecting objects in images, the current trend is to train a Deep Network with training images captured under many different lighting conditions. Unfortunately, creating such a training set is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Mahdi Rad , Peter M. Roth , Vincent Lepetit

In this paper, we propose a color to grayscale image conversion algorithm (C2G) that aims to preserve the perceptual properties of the color image as much as possible. To this end, we propose measures for two perceptual properties based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Shaodi You , Nick Barnes , Janine Walker

Current deep learning-based low-light image enhancement methods often struggle with high-resolution images, and fail to meet the practical demands of visual perception across diverse and unseen scenarios. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Tomáš Chobola , Yu Liu , Hanyi Zhang , Julia A. Schnabel , Tingying Peng