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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

As the quality of optical sensors improves, there is a need for processing large-scale images. In particular, the ability of devices to capture ultra-high definition (UHD) images and video places new demands on the image processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Tianrun Shen , Wenhan Luo , Bjorn Stenger , Tong Lu

Photography during night or in dark conditions typically suffers from noise, low light and blurring issues due to the dim environment and the common use of long exposure. Although Deblurring and Low-light Image Enhancement (LLIE) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Daniel Feijoo , Juan C. Benito , Alvaro Garcia , Marcos V. Conde

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

In this paper, we present a simple yet highly effective "free lunch" solution for low-light image enhancement (LLIE), which aims to restore low-light images as if acquired in well-illuminated environments. Our method necessitates no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Joshua Cho , Sara Aghajanzadeh , Zhen Zhu , D. A. Forsyth

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

Many learning-based low-light image enhancement (LLIE) algorithms are based on the Retinex theory. However, the Retinex-based decomposition techniques in such models introduce corruptions which limit their enhancement performance. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhihao Zheng , Mooi Choo Chuah

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve illumination while preserving high-quality color and texture. However, existing methods often fail to extract reliable feature representations due to severely degraded pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xu Wu , Zhihui Lai , Xianxu Hou , Jie Zhou , Ya-nan Zhang , Linlin Shen

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a pervasive yet challenging problem, since: 1) low-light measurements may vary due to different imaging conditions in practice; 2) images can be enlightened subjectively according to diverse preferences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Rongkai Zhang , Lanqing Guo , Siyu Huang , Bihan Wen

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

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 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

Real-time low-light image enhancement on mobile and embedded devices requires models that balance visual quality and computational efficiency. Existing deep learning methods often rely on large networks and labeled datasets, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guangrui Bai , Hailong Yan , Wenhai Liu , Yahui Deng , Erbao Dong

Low-light images often suffer from limited visibility and multiple types of degradation, rendering low-light image enhancement (LIE) a non-trivial task. Some endeavors have been recently made to enhance low-light images using convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zixiang Wei , Yiting Wang , Lichao Sun , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Lin Wang

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) has long been a challenging problem in low-level vision, as insufficient illumination often leads to low contrast, detail loss, and noise. Recent studies show that deep learning-based Retinex theory can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ziqi Wang , Xu Zhang , Laibin Chang , Shi Chen , Jiaqi Ma , Huan Zhang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) has traditionally been formulated as a deterministic mapping. However, this paradigm often struggles to account for the ill-posed nature of the task, where unknown ambient conditions and sensor parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Hongru Han , Tingrui Guo , Liming Zhang , Yan Su , Qiwen Xu , Zhuohua Ye

Poor image quality in low light images may result in a reduced number of feature matching between images. In this paper, we investigate the performance of feature extraction algorithms in low light environments. To find an optimal setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Pranjay Shyam , Antyanta Bangunharcana , Kyung-Soo Kim

Current Low-light Image Enhancement (LLIE) techniques predominantly rely on either direct Low-Light (LL) to Normal-Light (NL) mappings or guidance from semantic features or illumination maps. Nonetheless, the intrinsic ill-posedness of LLIE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Wei Dong , Yan Min , Han Zhou , Jun Chen

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

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) techniques attempt to increase the visibility of images captured in low-light scenarios. However, as a result of enhancement, a variety of image degradations such as noise and color bias are revealed.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Savvas Panagiotou , Anna S. Bosman