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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

In this paper, we study the problem of making brighter images from dark images found in the wild. The images are dark because they are taken in dim environments. They suffer from color shifts caused by quantization and from sensor noise. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Sara Aghajanzadeh , David Forsyth

This paper introduces a novel deep learning framework for low-light image enhancement, named the Encoder-Decoder Network with Illumination Guidance (EDNIG). Building upon the U-Net architecture, EDNIG integrates an illumination map, derived…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Le-Anh Tran , Chung Nguyen Tran , Ngoc-Luu Nguyen , Nhan Cach Dang , Jordi Carrabina , David Castells-Rufas , Minh Son Nguyen

Infrared image helps improve the perception capabilities of autonomous driving in complex weather conditions such as fog, rain, and low light. However, infrared image often suffers from low contrast, especially in non-heat-emitting targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Siyuan Chai , Xiaodong Guo , Tong Liu

Extremely low-light text images are common in natural scenes, making scene text detection and recognition challenging. One solution is to enhance these images using low-light image enhancement methods before text extraction. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Che-Tsung Lin , Chun Chet Ng , Zhi Qin Tan , Wan Jun Nah , Xinyu Wang , Jie Long Kew , Pohao Hsu , Shang Hong Lai , Chee Seng Chan , Christopher Zach

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the visibility of images captured in poorly lit environments. Prevalent event-based solutions primarily utilize events triggered by motion, i.e., ''motion events'' to strengthen only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lei Sun , Yuhan Bao , Jiajun Zhai , Jingyun Liang , Yulun Zhang , Kaiwei Wang , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Low light images suffer from severe noise, low brightness, low contrast, etc. In previous researches, many image enhancement methods have been proposed, but few methods can deal with these problems simultaneously. In this paper, to solve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Bin Zhang , Ruihang Ji , Chunhui Wang

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

Recent machine learning techniques have dramatically changed how we process digital images. However, the way in which we capture images is still largely driven by human intuition and experience. This restriction is in part due to the many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Amey Chaware , Colin L. Cooke , Kanghyun Kim , Roarke Horstmeyer

In recent years, significant progress has been made in image recognition technology based on deep neural networks. However, improving recognition performance under low-light conditions remains a significant challenge. This study addresses…

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

Low-light image enhancement techniques have significantly progressed, but unstable image quality recovery and unsatisfactory visual perception are still significant challenges. To solve these problems, we propose a novel and robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Minglong Xue , Jinhong He , Wenhai Wang , Mingliang Zhou

Mask-based lensless cameras can be flat, thin, and light-weight, which makes them suitable for novel designs of computational imaging systems with large surface areas and arbitrary shapes. Despite recent progress in lensless cameras, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Yucheng Zheng , M. Salman Asif

A small ISO and a small exposure time are usually used to capture an image in the back or low light conditions which results in an image with negligible motion blur and small noise but look dark. In this paper, a single image brightening…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Chaobing Zheng , Zhengguo Li , Yi Yang , Shiqian Wu

Images captured under low-light conditions manifest poor visibility, lack contrast and color vividness. Compared to conventional approaches, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well in enhancing images. However, being solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Aditya Arora , Muhammad Haris , Syed Waqas Zamir , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Auto white balance (AWB) is applied by camera hardware at capture time to remove the color cast caused by the scene illumination. The vast majority of white-balance algorithms assume a single light source illuminates the scene; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Mahmoud Afifi , Marcus A. Brubaker , Michael S. Brown

Capturing High Dynamic Range (HDR) scenery using 8-bit cameras often suffers from over-/underexposure, loss of fine details due to low bit-depth compression, skewed color distributions, and strong noise in dark areas. Traditional LDR image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Baiang Li , Sizhuo Ma , Yanhong Zeng , Xiaogang Xu , Youqing Fang , Zhao Zhang , Jian Wang , Kai Chen

Learning-based methods have made promising advances in low-light RAW image enhancement, while their capability to extremely dark scenes where the environmental illuminance drops as low as 0.0001 lux remains to be explored due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hai Jiang , Binhao Guan , Zhen Liu , Xiaohong Liu , Jian Yu , Zheng Liu , Songchen Han , Shuaicheng Liu

Low-light image enhancement (LLE) remains challenging due to the unfavorable prevailing low-contrast and weak-visibility problems of single RGB images. In this paper, we respond to the intriguing learning-related question -- if leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Dong Liang , Ling Li , Mingqiang Wei , Shuo Yang , Liyan Zhang , Wenhan Yang , Yun Du , Huiyu Zhou

High-quality photography in extreme low-light conditions is challenging but impactful for digital cameras. With advanced computing hardware, traditional camera image signal processor (ISP) algorithms are gradually being replaced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Amber Yijia Zheng , Yu Zhang , Jun Hu , Raymond A. Yeh , Chen Chen

Low-light images, characterized by inadequate illumination, pose challenges of diminished clarity, muted colors, and reduced details. Low-light image enhancement, an essential task in computer vision, aims to rectify these issues by…

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