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Low-light image enhancement is an important task in computer vision, essential for improving the visibility and quality of images captured in non-optimal lighting conditions. Inadequate illumination can lead to significant information loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ezequiel Perez-Zarate , Oscar Ramos-Soto , Chunxiao Liu , Diego Oliva , Marco Perez-Cisneros

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

Deep neural networks have been very successful in image estimation applications such as compressive-sensing and image restoration, as a means to estimate images from partial, blurry, or otherwise degraded measurements. These networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Zhihao Xia , Ayan Chakrabarti

Images captured in the low-light condition suffer from low visibility and various imaging artifacts, e.g., real noise. Existing supervised enlightening algorithms require a large set of pixel-aligned training image pairs, which are hard to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-11 Lanqing Guo , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Alex Kot , Bihan Wen

This paper introduces a novel lightweight computational framework for enhancing images under low-light conditions, utilizing advanced machine learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional enhancement techniques often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhuoheng Li , Yuheng Pan , Houcheng Yu , Zhiheng Zhang

Real-world low-light images often suffer from complex degradations such as local overexposure, low brightness, noise, and uneven illumination. Supervised methods tend to overfit to specific scenarios, while unsupervised methods, though…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Huaqiu Li , Xiaowan Hu , Haoqian Wang

Poor lighting conditions significantly impact image quality, posing substantial challenges for image editing and visualization. Many existing enhancement methods aim at proposing complex models while neglecting the intrinsic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xuanshuo Fu , Lei Kang , Javier Vazquez-Corral

Background subtraction is a fundamental task in computer vision with numerous real-world applications, ranging from object tracking to video surveillance. Dynamic backgrounds poses a significant challenge here. Supervised deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Fateme Bahri , Nilanjan Ray

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

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the perception or interpretability of an image captured in an environment with poor illumination. Recent advances in this area are dominated by deep learning-based solutions, where many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Chongyi Li , Chunle Guo , Linghao Han , Jun Jiang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jinwei Gu , Chen Change Loy

Images captured under low-light conditions are often plagued by several challenges, including diminished contrast, increased noise, loss of fine details, and unnatural color reproduction. These factors can significantly hinder the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Miao Zhang , Yiqing Shen , Shenghui Zhong

Retrieving accurate 3D reconstructions of objects from the way they reflect light is a very challenging task in computer vision. Despite more than four decades since the definition of the Photometric Stereo problem, most of the literature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Fotios Logothetis , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Mecca , Roberto Cipolla

Deep learning-based image restoration has achieved significant success. However, when addressing real-world degradations, model performance is limited by the quality of groundtruth images in datasets due to practical constraints in data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Donghun Ryou , Inju Ha , Sanghyeok Chu , Bohyung Han

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

When capturing images in low-light conditions, the images often suffer from low visibility, which not only degrades the visual aesthetics of images, but also significantly degenerates the performance of many computer vision algorithms. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Lijun Zhang , Xiao Liu , Erik Learned-Miller , Hui Guan

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

Understanding the 3D world without supervision is currently a major challenge in computer vision as the annotations required to supervise deep networks for tasks in this domain are expensive to obtain on a large scale. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Octave Mariotti , Oisin Mac Aodha , Hakan Bilen

Restoring images from low-light data is a challenging problem. Most existing deep-network based algorithms are designed to be trained with pairwise images. Due to the lack of real-world datasets, they usually perform poorly when generalized…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Yangyang Qu , Chao liu , Yongsheng Ou

We study human pose estimation in extremely low-light images. This task is challenging due to the difficulty of collecting real low-light images with accurate labels, and severely corrupted inputs that degrade prediction quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sohyun Lee , Jaesung Rim , Boseung Jeong , Geonu Kim , Byungju Woo , Haechan Lee , Sunghyun Cho , Suha Kwak

Current methods for restoring underexposed images typically rely on supervised learning with paired underexposed and well-illuminated images. However, collecting such datasets is often impractical in real-world scenarios. Moreover, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Hailong Yan , Junjian Huang , Tingwen Huang