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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

Low light image enhancement is an important challenge for the development of robust computer vision algorithms. The machine learning approaches to this have been either unsupervised, supervised based on paired dataset or supervised based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Harshana Weligampola , Gihan Jayatilaka , Suren Sritharan , Roshan Godaliyadda , Parakrama Ekanayaka , Roshan Ragel , Vijitha Herath

Low-light image enhancement, such as recovering color and texture details from low-light images, is a complex and vital task. For automated driving, low-light scenarios will have serious implications for vision-based applications. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Yangyang Qu , Kai Chen , Chao Liu , Yongsheng Ou

This paper considers matching images of low-light scenes, aiming to widen the frontier of SfM and visual SLAM applications. Recent image sensors can record the brightness of scenes with more than eight-bit precision, available in their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Wenzheng Song , Masanori Suganuma , Xing Liu , Noriyuki Shimobayashi , Daisuke Maruta , Takayuki Okatani

Current Scene text image super-resolution approaches primarily focus on extracting robust features, acquiring text information, and complex training strategies to generate super-resolution images. However, the upsampling module, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Wenyu Zhang , Xin Deng , Baojun Jia , Xingtong Yu , Yifan Chen , jin Ma , Qing Ding , Xinming Zhang

Low light conditions not only degrade human visual experience, but also reduce the performance of downstream machine analytics. Although many works have been designed for low-light enhancement or domain adaptive machine analytics, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Wenjing Wang , Zhengbo Xu , Haofeng Huang , Jiaying Liu

Self-supervised depth estimation draws a lot of attention recently as it can promote the 3D sensing capabilities of self-driving vehicles. However, it intrinsically relies upon the photometric consistency assumption, which hardly holds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Yupeng Zheng , Chengliang Zhong , Pengfei Li , Huan-ang Gao , Yuhang Zheng , Bu Jin , Ling Wang , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou , Qichao Zhang , Dongbin Zhao

Getting rid of the fundamental limitations in fitting to the paired training data, recent unsupervised low-light enhancement methods excel in adjusting illumination and contrast of images. However, for unsupervised low light enhancement,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Zhangkai Ni , Wenhan Yang , Hanli Wang , Shiqi Wang , Lin Ma , Sam Kwong

In this paper, we propose a novel low-light image enhancement method aimed at improving the performance of recognition models. Despite recent advances in deep learning, the recognition of images under low-light conditions remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Seitaro Ono , Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito , Masato Tsukada

The task of single image super-resolution (SISR) aims at reconstructing a high-resolution (HR) image from a low-resolution (LR) image. Although significant progress has been made by deep learning models, they are trained on synthetic paired…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Zhen Han , Enyan Dai , Xu Jia , Xiaoying Ren , Shuaijun Chen , Chunjing Xu , Jianzhuang Liu , Qi Tian

Low-light image enhancement exhibits an ill-posed nature, as a given image may have many enhanced versions, yet recent studies focus on building a deterministic mapping from input to an enhanced version. In contrast, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Xiaopeng Sun , Muxingzi Li , Tianyu He , Lubin Fan

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a crucial task in computer vision aimed at enhancing the visual fidelity of images captured under low-illumination conditions. Conventional methods frequently struggle with noise, overexposure, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Namrah Siddiqua , Kim Suneung , Seong-Whan Lee

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

Images captured in the low-light condition suffer from low visibility and various imaging artifacts, e.g., real noise. Existing supervised enlightening algorithms require a large set of pixel-aligned training image pairs, which are hard to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-11 Lanqing Guo , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Alex Kot , Bihan Wen

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the illuminance of images due to insufficient light exposure. Recently, various lightweight learning-based LLIE methods have been proposed to handle the challenges of unfavorable prevailing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yuantong Zhang , Baoxin Teng , Daiqin Yang , Zhenzhong Chen , Haichuan Ma , Gang Li , Wenpeng Ding

Deep learning-based methods have achieved remarkable success in image restoration and enhancement, but are they still competitive when there is a lack of paired training data? As one such example, this paper explores the low-light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Yifan Jiang , Xinyu Gong , Ding Liu , Yu Cheng , Chen Fang , Xiaohui Shen , Jianchao Yang , Pan Zhou , Zhangyang Wang

We propose a novel unsupervised backlit image enhancement method, abbreviated as CLIP-LIT, by exploring the potential of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) for pixel-level image enhancement. We show that the open-world CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Zhexin Liang , Chongyi Li , Shangchen Zhou , Ruicheng Feng , Chen Change Loy

Currently, low-light conditions present a significant challenge for machine cognition. In this paper, rather than optimizing models by assuming that human and machine cognition are correlated, we use zero-reference low-light enhancement to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Igor Morawski , Kai He , Shusil Dangi , Winston H. Hsu

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

Night images suffer not only from low light, but also from uneven distributions of light. Most existing night visibility enhancement methods focus mainly on enhancing low-light regions. This inevitably leads to over enhancement and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yeying Jin , Wenhan Yang , Robby T. Tan