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The objective in this paper is to improve the performance of text-to-image retrieval. To this end, we introduce a new framework that can boost the performance of large-scale pre-trained vision-language models, so that they can be used for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Guanqi Zhan , Yuanpei Liu , Kai Han , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

In this study, we address local photo enhancement to improve the aesthetic quality of an input image by applying different effects to different regions. Existing photo enhancement methods are either not content-aware or not local;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Satoshi Kosugi , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the visual quality of images captured under poor lighting conditions. In supervised LLIE research, there exists a significant yet often overlooked inconsistency between the overall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jingxi Liao , Shijie Hao , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

Low-Light Video Enhancement (LLVE) seeks to restore dynamic or static scenes plagued by severe invisibility and noise. In this paper, we present an innovative video decomposition strategy that incorporates view-independent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xiaogang Xu , Kun Zhou , Tao Hu , Jiafei Wu , Ruixing Wang , Hao Peng , Bei Yu

This paper proposes a self-supervised low light image enhancement method based on deep learning. Inspired by information entropy theory and Retinex model, we proposed a maximum entropy based Retinex model. With this model, a very simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Bin Zhang , Chunhui Wang

Image enhancement is a significant research area in the fields of computer vision and image processing. In recent years, many learning-based methods for image enhancement have been developed, where the Look-up-table (LUT) has proven to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Weiwen Chen , Qiuhong Ke , Zinuo Li

With the continuous development of social software and multimedia technology, images have become a kind of important carrier for spreading information and socializing. How to evaluate an image comprehensively has become the focus of recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Xin Jin , Xinning Li , Hao Lou , Chenyu Fan , Qiang Deng , Chaoen Xiao , Shuai Cui , Amit Kumar Singh

Principle objective of Image enhancement is to process an image so that result is more suitable than original image for specific application. Digital image enhancement techniques provide a multitude of choices for improving the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-23 Raman Maini , Himanshu Aggarwal

Image restoration is a low-level visual task, and most CNN methods are designed as black boxes, lacking transparency and intrinsic aesthetics. Many unsupervised approaches ignore the degradation of visible information in low-light scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Qihan Zhao , Xiaofeng Zhang , Hao Tang , Chaochen Gu , Shanying Zhu

Light adaptation or brightness correction is a key step in improving the contrast and visual appeal of an image. There are multiple light-related tasks (for example, low-light enhancement and exposure correction) and previous studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Kai-Fu Yang , Cheng Cheng , Shi-Xuan Zhao , Xian-Shi Zhang , Yong-Jie Li

Most existing Low-light Image Enhancement (LLIE) methods either directly map Low-Light (LL) to Normal-Light (NL) images or use semantic or illumination maps as guides. However, the ill-posed nature of LLIE and the difficulty of semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Xiaohong Liu , Shuaicheng Liu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai , Jun Chen

Previous low-light image enhancement (LLIE) approaches, while employing frequency decomposition techniques to address the intertwined challenges of low frequency (e.g., illumination recovery) and high frequency (e.g., noise reduction),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Kun Zhou , Xinyu Lin , Wenbo Li , Xiaogang Xu , Yuanhao Cai , Zhonghang Liu , Xiaoguang Han , Jiangbo Lu

With the vigorous development of mobile photography technology, major mobile phone manufacturers are scrambling to improve the shooting ability of equipments and the photo beautification algorithm of software. However, the improvement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Xin Jin , Qiang Deng , Jianwen Lv , Heng Huang , Hao Lou , Chaoen Xiao

Dark image enhancement aims at converting dark images to normal-light images. Existing dark image enhancement methods take uncompressed dark images as inputs and achieve great performance. However, in practice, dark images are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Yi Zeng , Zhengning Wang , Yuxuan Liu , Tianjiao Zeng , Xuhang Liu , Xinglong Luo , Shuaicheng Liu , Shuyuan Zhu , Bing Zeng

In response to the challenges posed by the extensive parameter updates required for full fine-tuning of large-scale pre-trained models, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, exemplified by Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), have emerged.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Junjie Wang , Guangjing Yang , Wentao Chen , Huahui Yi , Xiaohu Wu , Zhouchen Lin , Qicheng Lao

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

We present TALE, a novel training-free framework harnessing the generative capabilities of text-to-image diffusion models to address the cross-domain image composition task that focuses on flawlessly incorporating user-specified objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Kien T. Pham , Jingye Chen , Qifeng Chen

Fully- or semi-automatic image enhancement software helps users to increase the visual appeal of photos and does not require in-depth knowledge of manual image editing. However, fully-automatic approaches usually enhance the image in a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Michael Fischer , Konstantin Kobs , Andreas Hotho

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

Low-light image enhancement task is essential yet challenging as it is ill-posed intrinsically. Previous arts mainly focus on the low-light images captured in the visible spectrum using pixel-wise loss, which limits the capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Shulin Tian , Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen