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Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the illuminance of images due to insufficient light exposure. Recently, various lightweight learning-based LLIE methods have been proposed to handle the challenges of unfavorable prevailing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yuantong Zhang , Baoxin Teng , Daiqin Yang , Zhenzhong Chen , Haichuan Ma , Gang Li , Wenpeng Ding

Although significant progress has been made in enhancing visibility, retrieving texture details, and mitigating noise in Low-Light (LL) images, the challenge persists in applying current Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Xiaohong Liu , Yulun Zhang , Guangtao Zhai , Jun Chen

Low-light image enhancement remains a challenging problem due to severe noise, color distortion, contrast degradation, and loss of structural details under insufficient illumination. Existing methods typically apply uniform enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Bibhabasu Debnath , Sahana Ray , Sanjay Ghosh

This letter introduces LYT-Net, a novel lightweight transformer-based model for low-light image enhancement (LLIE). LYT-Net consists of several layers and detachable blocks, including our novel blocks--Channel-Wise Denoiser (CWD) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 A. Brateanu , R. Balmez , A. Avram , C. Orhei , C. Ancuti

Low-light image enhancement (LIE) aims at precisely and efficiently recovering an image degraded in poor illumination environments. Recent advanced LIE techniques are using deep neural networks, which require lots of low-normal light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yunlong Lin , Zhenqi Fu , Kairun Wen , Tian Ye , Sixiang Chen , Ge Meng , Yingying Wang , Yue Huang , Xiaotong Tu , Xinghao Ding

Deep learning-based low-light image enhancers have made significant progress in recent years, with a trend towards achieving satisfactory visual quality while gradually reducing the number of parameters and improving computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Nan An , Long Ma , Guangchao Han , Xin Fan , RIsheng Liu

Matching visible and near-infrared (NIR) images remains a significant challenge in remote sensing image fusion. The nonlinear radiometric differences between heterogeneous remote sensing images make the image matching task even more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wang Zhang , Tingting Li , Yuntian Zhang , Gensheng Pei , Xiruo Jiang , Yazhou Yao

Low-Light Enhancement (LLE) is aimed at improving the quality of photos/videos captured under low-light conditions. It is worth noting that most existing LLE methods do not take advantage of geometric modeling. We believe that incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yingqi Lin , Xiaogang Xu , Jiafei Wu , Yan Han , Zhe Liu

When one captures images in low-light conditions, the images often suffer from low visibility. This poor quality may significantly degrade the performance of many computer vision and multimedia algorithms that are primarily designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Xiaojie Guo

Low-light image enhancement is a crucial preprocessing task for some complex vision tasks. Target detection, image segmentation, and image recognition outcomes are all directly impacted by the impact of image enhancement. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mengfei Wu , Xucheng Xue , Taiji Lan , Xinwei Xu

Low-light image enhancement (LLE) aims to improve the visual quality of images captured in poorly lit conditions, which often suffer from low brightness, low contrast, noise, and color distortions. These issues hinder the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Junyu Xia , Jiesong Bai , Yihang Dong

Single-shot low-light image enhancement (SLLIE) remains challenging due to the limited availability of diverse, real-world paired datasets. To bridge this gap, we introduce the Low-Light Smartphone Dataset (LSD), a large-scale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 S M A Sharif , Abdur Rehman , Zain Ul Abidin , Fayaz Ali Dharejo , Radu Timofte , Rizwan Ali Naqvi

Underwater images often exhibit poor quality, distorted color balance and low contrast due to the complex and intricate interplay of light, water, and objects. Despite the significant contributions of previous underwater enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Weiwen Chen , Yingtie Lei , Shenghong Luo , Ziyang Zhou , Mingxian Li , Chi-Man Pun

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

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) restores the color and brightness of underexposed images. Supervised methods suffer from high costs in collecting low/normal-light image pairs. Unsupervised methods invest substantial effort in crafting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Yinghao Song , Zhiyuan Cao , Wanhong Xiang , Sifan Long , Bo Yang , Hongwei Ge , Yanchun Liang , Chunguo Wu

Light field (LF) images containing information for multiple views have numerous applications, which can be severely affected by low-light imaging. Recent learning-based methods for low-light enhancement have some disadvantages, such as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Shansi Zhang , Nan Meng , Edmund Y. Lam

Transformer-based models have made remarkable progress in image restoration (IR) tasks. However, the quadratic complexity of self-attention in Transformer hinders its applicability to high-resolution images. Existing methods mitigate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yuang Ai , Huaibo Huang , Tao Wu , Qihang Fan , Ran He

Images captured underwater often suffer from suboptimal illumination settings that can hide important visual features, reducing their quality. We present a novel single-image low-light underwater image enhancer, L^2UWE, that builds on our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Tunai Porto Marques , Alexandra Branzan Albu

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

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is an ill-posed inverse problem due to the lack of knowledge of the desired image which is obtained under ideal illumination conditions. Low-light conditions give rise to two main issues: a suppressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Mustafa Ozcan , Hamza Ergezer , Mustafa Ayazaoglu