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Low-light hazy scenes commonly appear at dusk and early morning. The visual enhancement for low-light hazy images is an ill-posed problem. Even though numerous methods have been proposed for image dehazing and low-light enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Chaoqun Zhuang , Yunfei Liu , Sijia Wen , 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

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the presence of noise, loss of detail, and poor contrast in images captured under insufficient lighting conditions. Recent methods often rely solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Alexandru Brateanu , Raul Balmez , Ciprian Orhei , Codruta Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti

A novel method of contrast enhancement is proposed for underexposed images, in which heavy noise is hidden. Under low light conditions, images taken by digital cameras have low contrast in dark or bright regions. This is due to a limited…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Chien-Cheng Chien , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

In recent years, there has been rapid development in learned image compression techniques that prioritize ratedistortion-perceptual compression, preserving fine details even at lower bit-rates. However, current learning-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Peirong Ning , Wei Jiang , Ronggang Wang

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the perception of images collected in dim environments and provide high-quality data support for image recognition tasks. When dealing with photos captured under non-uniform illumination, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xiao Fang , Xin Gao , Baofeng Li , Feng Zhai , Yu Qin , Zhihang Meng , Jiansheng Lu , Chun Xiao

The demand for compact cameras capable of recording high-speed scenes with high resolution is steadily increasing. However, achieving such capabilities often entails high bandwidth requirements, resulting in bulky, heavy systems unsuitable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zhihong Zhang , Runzhao Yang , Jinli Suo , Yuxiao Cheng , Qionghai Dai

Lossless image compression is an essential research field in image compression. Recently, learning-based image compression methods achieved impressive performance compared with traditional lossless methods, such as WebP, JPEG2000, and FLIF.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Ran Wang , Jinming Liu , Heming Sun , Jiro Katto

Image Compression for Machines (ICM) aims to compress images for machine vision tasks rather than human viewing. Current works predominantly concentrate on high-level tasks like object detection and semantic segmentation. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yuan Xue , Qi Zhang , Chuanmin Jia , Shiqi Wang

State-of-the-art pre-trained image models predominantly adopt a two-stage approach: initial unsupervised pre-training on large-scale datasets followed by task-specific fine-tuning using Cross-Entropy loss~(CE). However, it has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Zijun Long , George Killick , Lipeng Zhuang , Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa , Zaiqiao Meng , Richard Mccreadie

Storage-efficient privacy-preserving learning is crucial due to increasing amounts of sensitive user data required for modern learning tasks. We propose a framework for reducing the storage cost of user data while at the same time providing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Berivan Isik , Tsachy Weissman

Recent deep learning-based methods for lossy image compression achieve competitive rate-distortion performance through extensive end-to-end training and advanced architectures. However, emerging applications increasingly prioritize semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ruiqi Shen , Haotian Wu , Wenjing Zhang , Jiangjing Hu , Deniz Gunduz

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) is crucial for improving both human perception and computer vision tasks. This paper addresses two challenges in zero-reference LLIE: obtaining perceptually 'good' images using the Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito

Absence of nearby light sources while capturing an image will degrade the visibility and quality of the captured image, making computer vision tasks difficult. In this paper, a color-wise attention network (CWAN) is proposed for low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yousef Atoum , Mao Ye , Liu Ren , Ying Tai , Xiaoming Liu

The learned image compression (LIC) methods have already surpassed traditional techniques in compressing natural scene (NS) images. However, directly applying these methods to screen content (SC) images, which possess distinct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Shiqi Jiang , Hui Yuan , Shuai Li , Huanqiang Zeng , Sam Kwong

Learned image compression (LIC) techniques have achieved remarkable progress; however, effectively integrating high-level semantic information remains challenging. In this work, we present a \underline{S}emantic-\underline{E}nhanced…

Applications · Statistics 2025-04-03 Haisheng Fu , Jie Liang , Zhenman Fang , Jingning Han

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

Emerging Learned image Compression (LC) achieves significant improvements in coding efficiency by end-to-end training of neural networks for compression. An important benefit of this approach over traditional codecs is that any optimization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Farhad Pakdaman , Sanaz Nami , Moncef Gabbouj

Deep learning-based methods for low-light image enhancement typically require enormous paired training data, which are impractical to capture in real-world scenarios. Recently, unsupervised approaches have been explored to eliminate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Feng Zhang , Yuanjie Shao , Yishi Sun , Kai Zhu , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

In recent years, learned image compression (LIC) methods have achieved significant performance improvements. However, obtaining a more compact latent representation and reducing the impact of quantization errors remain key challenges in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Shiqi Jiang , Hui Yuan , Shuai Li , Raouf Hamzaoui , Xu Wang , Junyan Huo