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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Jin Hu , Mingjia Li , Xiaojie Guo

Images taken under low-light conditions tend to suffer from poor visibility, which can decrease image quality and even reduce the performance of the downstream tasks. It is hard for a CNN-based method to learn generalized features that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yi Huang , Xiaoguang Tu , Gui Fu , Tingting Liu , Bokai Liu , Ming Yang , Ziliang Feng

Capturing images under extremely low-light conditions poses significant challenges for the standard camera pipeline. Images become too dark and too noisy, which makes traditional enhancement techniques almost impossible to apply. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ahmet Serdar Karadeniz , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

Intrinsic image decomposition is the process of recovering the image formation components (reflectance and shading) from an image. Previous methods employ either explicit priors to constrain the problem or implicit constraints as formulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Partha Das , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

Due to the nature of enhancement--the absence of paired ground-truth information, high-level vision tasks have been recently employed to evaluate the performance of low-light image enhancement. A widely-used manner is to see how accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mingjia Li , Hao Zhao , Xiaojie Guo

Low resolution image enhancement is a classical computer vision problem. Selecting the best method to reconstruct an image to a higher resolution with the limited data available in the low-resolution image is quite a challenge. A major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-08 M. Z. F. Amara , R. Bandara , Thushari Silva

This paper presents a novel and interpretable end-to-end learning framework, called the deep compensation unfolding network (DCUNet), for restoring light field (LF) images captured under low-light conditions. DCUNet is designed with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Xianqiang Lyu , Junhui Hou

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) faces persistent challenges in balancing reconstruction fidelity with cross-scenario generalization. While existing methods predominantly focus on deterministic pixel-level mappings between paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Derong Kong , Zhixiong Yang , Shengxi Li , Shuaifeng Zhi , Li Liu , Zhen Liu , Jingyuan Xia

Two difficulties here make low-light image enhancement a challenging task; firstly, it needs to consider not only luminance restoration but also image contrast, image denoising and color distortion issues simultaneously. Second, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Wenchao Li , Bangshu Xiong , Qiaofeng Ou , Xiaoyun Long , Jinhao Zhu , Jiabao Chen , Shuyuan Wen

Real-world low-light images captured by imaging devices suffer from poor visibility and require a domain-specific enhancement to produce artifact-free outputs that reveal details. In this paper, we propose an unpaired low-light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Aupendu Kar , Sobhan K. Dhara , Debashis Sen , Prabir K. Biswas

Images captured under low-light conditions are often plagued by several challenges, including diminished contrast, increased noise, loss of fine details, and unnatural color reproduction. These factors can significantly hinder the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Miao Zhang , Yiqing Shen , Shenghui Zhong

Image colourisation is an ill-posed problem, with multiple correct solutions which depend on the context and object instances present in the input datum. Previous approaches attacked the problem either by requiring intense user interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Rita Pucci , Christian Micheloni , Niki Martinel

A low-light image enhancement is a highly demanded image processing technique, especially for consumer digital cameras and cameras on mobile phones. In this paper, a gradient-based low-light image enhancement algorithm is proposed. The key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Masayuki Tanaka , Takashi Shibata , Masatoshi Okutomi

Enhancing low-light images while maintaining natural colors is a challenging problem due to camera processing variations and limited access to photos with ground-truth lighting conditions. The latter is a crucial factor for supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wojciech Kozłowski , Michał Szachniewicz , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba

The visual quality of photographs taken under imperfect lightness conditions can be degenerated by multiple factors, e.g., low lightness, imaging noise, color distortion and so on. Current low-light image enhancement models focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Shijie Hao , Xu Han , Yanrong Guo , Meng Wang

Limited illumination often causes severe physical noise and detail degradation in images. Existing Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) methods frequently treat the enhancement process as a blind black-box mapping, overlooking the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tongshun Zhang , Pingping Liu , Yuqing Lei , Zixuan Zhong , Qiuzhan Zhou , Zhiyuan Zha

Deep learning-based low-light image enhancers have made significant progress in recent years, with a trend towards achieving satisfactory visual quality while gradually reducing the number of parameters and improving computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Nan An , Long Ma , Guangchao Han , Xin Fan , RIsheng Liu

With the development of deep learning, numerous methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) have demonstrated remarkable performance. Mainstream LLIE methods typically learn an end-to-end mapping based on pairs of low-light and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jiahui Tang , Kaihua Zhou , Zhijian Luo , Yueen Hou

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

Many existing methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) based on Retinex theory ignore important factors that affect the validity of this theory in digital imaging, such as noise, quantization error, non-linearity, and dynamic range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Shangquan Sun , Wenqi Ren , Jingyang Peng , Fenglong Song , Xiaochun Cao