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Image degradation caused by complex lighting conditions such as low-light and backlit scenarios is commonly encountered in real-world environments, significantly affecting image quality and downstream vision tasks. Most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ziang Wang , Xiaoqin Wang , Dingyi Wang , Qiang Li , Shushan Qiao

Images captured in low-light environment often suffer from complex degradation. Simply adjusting light would inevitably result in burst of hidden noise and color distortion. To seek results with satisfied lighting, cleanliness, and realism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Qiming Hu , Xiaojie Guo

The extremes of lighting (e.g. too much or too little light) usually cause many troubles for machine and human vision. Many recent works have mainly focused on under-exposure cases where images are often captured in low-light conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Hue Nguyen , Diep Tran , Khoi Nguyen , Rang Nguyen

Enhancing the quality of low-light images plays a very important role in many image processing and multimedia applications. In recent years, a variety of deep learning techniques have been developed to address this challenging task. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-13 Long Ma , Risheng Liu , Jiaao Zhang , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

This paper proposes a novel image contrast enhancement method based on both a noise aware shadow-up function and Retinex (retina and cortex) decomposition. Under low light conditions, images taken by digital cameras have low contrast in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Chien Cheng Chien , Yuma Kinoshita , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

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

This paper proposes a new framework for low-light image enhancement by simultaneously conducting the appearance as well as structure modeling. It employs the structural feature to guide the appearance enhancement, leading to sharp and…

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Fundus photography is a routine examination in clinics to diagnose and monitor ocular diseases. However, for cataract patients, the fundus image always suffers quality degradation caused by the clouding lens. The degradation prevents…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Heng Li , Haofeng Liu , Huazhu Fu , Hai Shu , Yitian Zhao , Xiaoling Luo , Yan Hu , Jiang Liu

Images captured under low-light conditions present significant limitations in many applications, as poor lighting can obscure details, reduce contrast, and hide noise. Removing the illumination effects and enhancing the quality of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Daniel Torres , Joan Duran , Julia Navarro , Catalina Sbert

Distortions caused by low-light conditions are not only visually unpleasant but also degrade the performance of computer vision tasks. The restoration and enhancement have proven to be highly beneficial. However, there are only a limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Ruirui Lin , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Alexandra Malyugina , David Bull

As vision based perception methods are usually built on the normal light assumption, there will be a serious safety issue when deploying them into low light environments. Recently, deep learning based methods have been proposed to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Junjie Hu , Xiyue Guo , Junfeng Chen , Guanqi Liang , Fuqin Deng , Tin lun Lam

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 aims to improve an image's visibility while keeping its visual naturalness. Different from existing methods tending to accomplish the relighting task directly by ignoring the fidelity and naturalness recovery, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Kui Jiang , Zhongyuan Wang , Zheng Wang , Chen Chen , Peng Yi , Tao Lu , Chia-Wen Lin

Due to the wide dynamic range in real low-light scenes, there will be large differences in the degree of contrast degradation and detail blurring of captured images, making it difficult for existing end-to-end methods to enhance low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Haodian Wang , Long Peng , Yuejin Sun , Zengyu Wan , Yang Wang , Yang Cao

Images obtained in real-world low-light conditions are not only low in brightness, but they also suffer from many other types of degradation, such as color bias, unknown noise, detail loss and halo artifacts. In this paper, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-01 Xinxu Wei , Xianshi Zhang , Shisen Wang , Cheng Cheng , Yanlin Huang , Kaifu Yang , Yongjie Li

The acquisition of paired low-light video sequences remains challenging due to issues associated with poor temporal consistency, varying illumination characteristics and camera parameters. This has driven significant interest in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Yini Li , Louis Forster , David Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Photo retouching aims at improving the aesthetic visual quality of images that suffer from photographic defects, especially for poor contrast, over/under exposure, and inharmonious saturation. In practice, photo retouching can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yihao Liu , Jingwen He , Xiangyu Chen , Zhengwen Zhang , Hengyuan Zhao , Chao Dong , Yu Qiao

Low-light vision remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision due to severe illumination degradation, which significantly affects the performance of downstream tasks such as detection and segmentation. While recent state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Fangtong Sun , Congyu Li , Ke Yang , Yuchen Pan , Hanwen Yu , Xichuan Zhang , Yiying Li

We introduce LTCF-Net, a novel network architecture designed for enhancing low-light images. Unlike Retinex-based methods, our approach utilizes two color spaces - LAB and YUV - to efficiently separate and process color information, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Gaojing Zhang , Jinglun Feng

Under challenging light conditions, captured images often suffer from various degradations, leading to a decline in the performance of vision-based applications. Although numerous methods have been proposed to enhance image quality, they…

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