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Low-light image enhancement is an important task in computer vision, essential for improving the visibility and quality of images captured in non-optimal lighting conditions. Inadequate illumination can lead to significant information loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ezequiel Perez-Zarate , Oscar Ramos-Soto , Chunxiao Liu , Diego Oliva , Marco Perez-Cisneros

Low-light image enhancement (LLE) aims to improve the visual quality of images captured in poorly lit conditions, which often suffer from low brightness, low contrast, noise, and color distortions. These issues hinder the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Junyu Xia , Jiesong Bai , Yihang Dong

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) investigates how to improve illumination and produce normal-light images. The majority of existing methods improve low-light images via a global and uniform manner, without taking into account the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Yuhui Wu , Chen Pan , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Jiwei Wei , Chongyi Li , Heng Tao Shen

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) task aims at improving contrast while restoring details and textures for images captured in low-light conditions. HVI color space has made significant progress in this task by enabling precise decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xin Xu , Hao Liu , Wei Liu , Wei Wang , Jiayi Wu , Kui Jiang

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

Developing effective approaches to generate enhanced results that align well with human visual preferences for high-quality well-lit images remains a challenge in low-light image enhancement (LLIE). In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiaorui Zhao , Xinyue Zhou , Peibei Cao , Junyu Lou , Shuhang Gu

Current deep learning-based low-light image enhancement methods often struggle with high-resolution images, and fail to meet the practical demands of visual perception across diverse and unseen scenarios. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Tomáš Chobola , Yu Liu , Hanyi Zhang , Julia A. Schnabel , Tingying Peng

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

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the illumination and visibility of dark images with lighting noise. To handle the real-world low-light images often with heavy and complex noise, some efforts have been made for joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jiahuan Ren , Zhao Zhang , Richang Hong , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang , Shuicheng Yan

While recent low-light image enhancement (LLIE) methods have made significant advancements, they still face challenges in terms of low visual quality and weak generalization ability when applied to complex scenarios. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ye Yu , Fengxin Chen , Jun Yu , Zhen Kan

Single-shot low-light image enhancement (SLLIE) remains challenging due to the limited availability of diverse, real-world paired datasets. To bridge this gap, we introduce the Low-Light Smartphone Dataset (LSD), a large-scale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 S M A Sharif , Abdur Rehman , Zain Ul Abidin , Fayaz Ali Dharejo , Radu Timofte , Rizwan Ali Naqvi

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

Photography during night or in dark conditions typically suffers from noise, low light and blurring issues due to the dim environment and the common use of long exposure. Although Deblurring and Low-light Image Enhancement (LLIE) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Daniel Feijoo , Juan C. Benito , Alvaro Garcia , Marcos V. Conde

Low-light image super-resolution (LLSR) is a challenging task due to the coupled degradation of low resolution and poor illumination. To address this, we propose the Guided Texture and Feature Modulation Network (GTFMN), a novel framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yongsong Huang , Tzu-Hsuan Peng , Tomo Miyazaki , Xiaofeng Liu , Chun-Ting Chou , Ai-Chun Pang , Shinichiro Omachi

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

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in low-light image enhancement (LLIE) due to its importance for critical downstream tasks. Current Retinex-based methods and learning-based approaches have shown significant LLIE…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yasin Demir , Nur Hüseyin Kaplan , Sefa Kucuk , Nagihan Severoglu

When one captures images in low-light conditions, the images often suffer from low visibility. This poor quality may significantly degrade the performance of many computer vision and multimedia algorithms that are primarily designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Xiaojie Guo

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) task tends to restore the details and visual information from corrupted low-light images. Most existing methods learn the mapping function between low/normal-light images by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Qingsen Yan , Yixu Feng , Cheng Zhang , Pei Wang , Peng Wu , Wei Dong , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

This paper introduces a novel lightweight computational framework for enhancing images under low-light conditions, utilizing advanced machine learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional enhancement techniques often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhuoheng Li , Yuheng Pan , Houcheng Yu , Zhiheng Zhang

Real-time low-light image enhancement on mobile and embedded devices requires models that balance visual quality and computational efficiency. Existing deep learning methods often rely on large networks and labeled datasets, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guangrui Bai , Hailong Yan , Wenhai Liu , Yahui Deng , Erbao Dong