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Low-Light Image Enhancement is a computer vision task which intensifies the dark images to appropriate brightness. It can also be seen as an ill-posed problem in image restoration domain. With the success of deep neural networks, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Chi-Mao Fan , Tsung-Jung Liu , Kuan-Hsien Liu

Motivated by their recent advances, deep learning techniques have been widely applied to low-light image enhancement (LIE) problem. Among which, Retinex theory based ones, mostly following a decomposition-adjustment pipeline, have taken an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Xinyi Liu , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Hong Wang , Deyu Meng

The captured images under low light conditions often suffer insufficient brightness and notorious noise. Hence, low-light image enhancement is a key challenging task in computer vision. A variety of methods have been proposed for this task,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-22 Cheng Zhang , Qingsen Yan , Yu zhu , Xianjun Li , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

Low light conditions in aerial images adversely affect the performance of several vision based applications. There is a need for methods that can efficiently remove the low light attributes and assist in the performance of key vision tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Prateek Garg , Murari Mandal , Pratik Narang

Images obtained under low-light conditions will seriously affect the quality of the images. Solving the problem of poor low-light image quality can effectively improve the visual quality of images and better improve the usability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yonglong Jiang , Liangliang Li , Yuan Xue , Hongbing Ma

Night photography typically suffers from both low light and blurring issues due to the dim environment and the common use of long exposure. While existing light enhancement and deblurring methods could deal with each problem individually, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Shangchen Zhou , Chongyi Li , Chen Change Loy

Low light conditions significantly degrade Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) performance in critical applications. Existing Low-light Image Enhancement (LIE) methods struggle with the unique challenges of aerial imagery, including Ultra-High…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wei Lu , Lingyu Zhu , Si-Bao Chen

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) is a crucial computer vision task that aims to restore detailed visual information from corrupted low-light images. Many existing LLIE methods are based on standard RGB (sRGB) space, which often produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Qingsen Yan , Yixu Feng , Cheng Zhang , Guansong Pang , Kangbiao Shi , Peng Wu , Wei Dong , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

On-orbit service is important for maintaining the sustainability of space environment. Space-based visible camera is an economical and lightweight sensor for situation awareness during on-orbit service. However, it can be easily affected by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yiman Zhu , Lu Wang , Jingyi Yuan , Yu Guo

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

Restoring images from low-light data is a challenging problem. Most existing deep-network based algorithms are designed to be trained with pairwise images. Due to the lack of real-world datasets, they usually perform poorly when generalized…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Yangyang Qu , Chao liu , Yongsheng Ou

Most existing Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) methods are primarily designed to improve brightness in dark regions, which suffer from severe degradation in nighttime images. However, these methods have limited exploration in another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Wanyu Wu , Wei Wang , Zheng Wang , Kui Jiang , Xin Xu

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the NTIRE 2025 Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) Challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and final outcomes. The objective of the challenge is to identify effective networks capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xiaoning Liu , Zongwei Wu , Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu , Hailong Yan , Bin Ren , Yulun Zhang , Shuhang Gu , Le Zhang , Ce Zhu , Radu Timofte , Kangbiao Shi , Yixu Feng , Tao Hu , Yu Cao , Peng Wu , Yijin Liang , Yanning Zhang , Qingsen Yan , Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Yan Min , Mohab Kishawy , Jun Chen , Pengpeng Yu , Anjin Park , Seung-Soo Lee , Young-Joon Park , Zixiao Hu , Junyv Liu , Huilin Zhang , Jun Zhang , Fei Wan , Bingxin Xu , Hongzhe Liu , Cheng Xu , Weiguo Pan , Songyin Dai , Xunpeng Yi , Qinglong Yan , Yibing Zhang , Jiayi Ma , Changhui Hu , Kerui Hu , Donghang Jing , Tiesheng Chen , Zhi Jin , Hongjun Wu , Biao Huang , Haitao Ling , Jiahao Wu , Dandan Zhan , G Gyaneshwar Rao , Vijayalaxmi Ashok Aralikatti , Nikhil Akalwadi , Ramesh Ashok Tabib , Uma Mudenagudi , Ruirui Lin , Guoxi Huang , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Qirui Yang , Alexandru Brateanu , Ciprian Orhei , Cosmin Ancuti , Daniel Feijoo , Juan C. Benito , Álvaro García , Marcos V. Conde , Yang Qin , Raul Balmez , Anas M. Ali , Bilel Benjdira , Wadii Boulila , Tianyi Mao , Huan Zheng , Yanyan Wei , Shengeng Tang , Dan Guo , Zhao Zhang , Sabari Nathan , K Uma , A Sasithradevi , B Sathya Bama , S. Mohamed Mansoor Roomi , Ao Li , Xiangtao Zhang , Zhe Liu , Yijie Tang , Jialong Tang , Zhicheng Fu , Gong Chen , Joe Nasti , John Nicholson , Zeyu Xiao , Zhuoyuan Li , Ashutosh Kulkarni , Prashant W. Patil , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Subrahmanyam Murala , Duan Liu , Weile Li , Hangyuan Lu , Rixian Liu , Tengfeng Wang , Jinxing Liang , Chenxin Yu

Low-light image enhancement presents two primary challenges: 1) Significant variations in low-light images across different conditions, and 2) Enhancement levels influenced by subjective preferences and user intent. To address these issues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Ming Zhao , Pingping Liu , Tongshun Zhang , Zhe Zhang

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the NITRE 2026 Efficient Low Light Image Enhancement (E-LLIE) Challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and final outcomes. This challenge focuses on mobile image enhancement under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jiebin Yan , Chenyu Tu , Weixia Zhang , Zhihua Wang , Peibei Cao , Qinghua Lin , Yuming Fang , Xiaoning Liu , Zongwei Wu , Zhuyun Zhou , Radu Timofte

Self-supervised low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is highly appealing as it eliminates the reliance on external paired data. However, the lack of external references causes networks to struggle with decoupling entangled illumination,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Peiyuan He , Hainuo Wang , Hengxing Liu , Mingjia Li , Xiaojie Guo

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

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

Low-light image enhancement is challenging in that it needs to consider not only brightness recovery but also complex issues like color distortion and noise, which usually hide in the dark. Simply adjusting the brightness of a low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Feifan Lv , Yu Li , Feng Lu

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