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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

Enhancing low-light traffic images is crucial for reliable perception in autonomous driving, intelligent transportation, and urban surveillance systems. Nighttime and dimly lit traffic scenes often suffer from poor visibility due to low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Siddiqua Namrah

Low-light image enhancement is a crucial visual task, and many unsupervised methods tend to overlook the degradation of visible information in low-light scenes, which adversely affects the fusion of complementary information and hinders the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Xiaofeng Zhang , Zishan Xu , Hao Tang , Chaochen Gu , Wei Chen , Shanying Zhu , Xinping Guan

With the goal of tuning up the brightness, low-light image enhancement enjoys numerous applications, such as surveillance, remote sensing and computational photography. Images captured under low-light conditions often suffer from poor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-21 Zhuqing Jiang , Chang Liu , Ya'nan Wang , Kai Li , Aidong Men , Haiying Wang , Haiyong Luo

Image restoration and enhancement is a process of improving the image quality by removing degradations, such as noise, blur, and resolution degradation. Deep learning (DL) has recently been applied to image restoration and enhancement. Due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Yunfan Lu , Yiqi Lin , Hao Wu , Yunhao Luo , Xu Zheng , Hui Xiong , Lin Wang

In this paper, we propose a physics-inspired contrastive learning paradigm for low-light enhancement, called PIE. PIE primarily addresses three issues: (i) To resolve the problem of existing learning-based methods often training a LLE model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Dong Liang , Zhengyan Xu , Ling Li , Mingqiang Wei , Songcan Chen

To enhance low-light images to normally-exposed ones is highly ill-posed, namely that the mapping relationship between them is one-to-many. Previous works based on the pixel-wise reconstruction losses and deterministic processes fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Haoliang Li , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot

We introduce ProLoRA, enabling zero-shot adaptation of parameter-efficient fine-tuning in text-to-image diffusion models. ProLoRA transfers pre-trained low-rank adjustments (e.g., LoRA) from a source to a target model without additional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Farzad Farhadzadeh , Debasmit Das , Shubhankar Borse , Fatih Porikli

Low-light image enhancement - a pervasive but challenging problem, plays a central role in enhancing the visibility of an image captured in a poor illumination environment. Due to the fact that not all photons can pass the Bayer-Filter on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Xingbo Dong , Wanyan Xu , Zhihui Miao , Lan Ma , Chao Zhang , Jiewen Yang , Zhe Jin , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh , Jiajun Shen

Enhancing the visibility of nighttime hazy images is challenging due to the complex degradation distributions. Existing methods mainly address a single type of degradation (e.g., haze or low-light) at a time, ignoring the interplay of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Chen Zhu , Huiwen Zhang , Mu He , Yujie Li , Xiaotian Qiao

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

Deep Learning requires large amounts of data to train models that work well. In data-deficient settings, performance can be degraded. We investigate which Deep Learning methods benefit training models in a data-deficient setting, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Robert-Jan Bruintjes , Attila Lengyel , Osman Semih Kayhan , Davide Zambrano , Nergis Tömen , Hadi Jamali-Rad , Jan van Gemert

Real-world dark images commonly exhibit not only low visibility and contrast but also complex noise and blur, posing significant restoration challenges. Existing methods often rely on paired data or fail to model dynamic illumination and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wei Dong , Han Zhou , Junwei Lin , Jun Chen

Image restoration is a low-level visual task, and most CNN methods are designed as black boxes, lacking transparency and intrinsic aesthetics. Many unsupervised approaches ignore the degradation of visible information in low-light scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Qihan Zhao , Xiaofeng Zhang , Hao Tang , Chaochen Gu , Shanying Zhu

Images captured under low-light conditions present significant limitations in many applications, as poor lighting can obscure details, reduce contrast, and hide noise. Removing the illumination effects and enhancing the quality of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Daniel Torres , Joan Duran , Julia Navarro , Catalina Sbert

Low-light images suffer from complex degradation, and existing enhancement methods often encode all degradation factors within a single latent space. This leads to highly entangled features and strong black-box characteristics, making the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Shuangli Du , Siming Yan , Zhenghao Shi , Zhenzhen You , Lu Sun

Recently, Fourier frequency information has attracted much attention in Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE). Some researchers noticed that, in the Fourier space, the lightness degradation mainly exists in the amplitude component and the rest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chenxi Wang , Hongjun Wu , Zhi Jin

Diffusion models have established the state-of-the-art in text-to-image generation, but their performance often relies on a diffusion prior network to translate text embeddings into the visual manifold for easier decoding. These priors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Samuele Dell'Erba , Andrew D. Bagdanov

While diffusion priors generate high-quality posterior samples across many inverse problems, they are often trained on limited training sets or purely simulated data, thus inheriting the errors and biases of these underlying sources.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Frederic Wang , Katherine L. Bouman

Existing methods for enhancing dark images captured in a very low-light environment assume that the intensity level of the optimal output image is known and already included in the training set. However, this assumption often does not hold,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Evgeny Hershkovitch Neiterman , Michael Klyuchka , Gil Ben-Artzi