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Low-light images, characterized by inadequate illumination, pose challenges of diminished clarity, muted colors, and reduced details. Low-light image enhancement, an essential task in computer vision, aims to rectify these issues by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Hossein Shakibania , Sina Raoufi , Hassan Khotanlou

Learned reweighting (LRW) approaches to supervised learning use an optimization criterion to assign weights for training instances, in order to maximize performance on a representative validation dataset. We pose and formalize the problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Nishant Jain , Arun S. Suggala , Pradeep Shenoy

Learning a typical image enhancement pipeline involves minimization of a loss function between enhanced and reference images. While L1 and L2 losses are perhaps the most widely used functions for this purpose, they do not necessarily lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Hossein Talebi , Peyman Milanfar

We present an effective and efficient approach for low-light image enhancement, named Lookup Table Global Curve Estimation (LUT-GCE). In contrast to existing curve-based methods with pixel-wise adjustment, we propose to estimate a global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Changguang Wu , Jiangxin Dong , Jinhui Tang

Face Super-Resolution (FSR) aims to recover high-resolution (HR) face images from low-resolution (LR) ones. Despite the progress made by convolutional neural networks in FSR, the results of existing approaches are not ideal due to their low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Hao Liu , Yang Yang , Yunxia Liu

With extremely high temporal resolution, event cameras have a large potential for robotics and computer vision. However, their asynchronous imaging mechanism often aggravates the measurement sensitivity to noises and brings a physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Bishan Wang , Jingwei He , Lei Yu , Gui-Song Xia , Wen Yang

Low-light conditions have an adverse impact on machine cognition, limiting the performance of computer vision systems in real life. Since low-light data is limited and difficult to annotate, we focus on image processing to enhance low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Igor Morawski , Kai He , Shusil Dangi , Winston H. Hsu

Infrared image helps improve the perception capabilities of autonomous driving in complex weather conditions such as fog, rain, and low light. However, infrared image often suffers from low contrast, especially in non-heat-emitting targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Siyuan Chai , Xiaodong Guo , Tong Liu

In image denoising (IDN) processing, the low-rank property is usually considered as an important image prior. As a convex relaxation approximation of low rank, nuclear norm based algorithms and their variants have attracted significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 Yanwei Zhao , Ping Yang , Qiu Guan , Jianwei Zheng , Wanliang Wang

Contemporary Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) techniques have made notable advancements in preserving image details and enhancing contrast, achieving commendable results on specific datasets. Nevertheless, these approaches encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Xiaofeng Liu , Jiaxin Gao , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Underwater image enhancement is an important low-level computer vision task for autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely operated vehicles to explore and understand the underwater environments. Recently, deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Hao-Hsiang Yang , Kuan-Chih Huang , Wei-Ting Chen

Imaging in low-light environments is challenging due to reduced scene radiance, which leads to elevated sensor noise and reduced color saturation. Most learning-based low-light enhancement methods rely on paired training data captured under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Maria Pilligua , David Serrano-Lozano , Pai Peng , Ramon Baldrich , Michael S. Brown , Javier Vazquez-Corral

Images captured in hazy outdoor conditions often suffer from colour distortion, low contrast, and loss of detail, which impair high-level vision tasks. Single image dehazing is essential for applications such as autonomous driving and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Divine Joseph Appiah , Donghai Guan , Abdul Nasser Kasule , Mingqiang Wei

Image restoration is a low-level vision task, most CNN methods are designed as a black box, lacking transparency and internal aesthetics. Although some methods combining traditional optimization algorithms with DNNs have been proposed, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiao Feng Zhang , Chao Chen Gu , Shan Ying Zhu

Photographs taken with less-than-ideal exposure settings often display poor visual quality. Since the correction procedures vary significantly, it is difficult for a single neural network to handle all exposure problems. Moreover, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Gehui Li , Jinyuan Liu , Long Ma , Zhiying Jiang , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

This paper presents a novel method, Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation (Zero-DCE), which formulates light enhancement as a task of image-specific curve estimation with a deep network. Our method trains a lightweight deep network, DCE-Net,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Chongyi Li , Chunle Guo , Chen Change Loy

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

Low-light imaging is challenging since images may appear to be dark and noised due to low signal-to-noise ratio, complex image content, and the variety in shooting scenes in extreme low-light condition. Many methods have been proposed to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Keqi Wang , Peng Gao , Steven Hoi , Qian Guo , Yuhua Qian

Scene observation from multiple perspectives would bring a more comprehensive visual experience. However, in the context of acquiring multiple views in the dark, the highly correlated views are seriously alienated, making it challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Hao Luo , Baoliang Chen , Lingyu Zhu , Peilin Chen , Shiqi Wang

Currently, most deep learning methods cannot solve the problem of scarcity of industrial product defect samples and significant differences in characteristics. This paper proposes an unsupervised defect detection algorithm based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Chao Hu , Jian Yao , Weijie Wu , Weibin Qiu , Liqiang Zhu