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In low-light environments, the performance of computer vision algorithms often deteriorates significantly, adversely affecting key vision tasks such as segmentation, detection, and classification. With the rapid advancement of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Fangxue Liu , Lei Fan

Image captured under low-light conditions presents unpleasing artifacts, which debilitate the performance of feature extraction for many upstream visual tasks. Low-light image enhancement aims at improving brightness and contrast, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Zhijian Luo , Jiahui Tang , Yueen Hou , Zihan Huang , Yanzeng Gao

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a pervasive yet challenging problem, since: 1) low-light measurements may vary due to different imaging conditions in practice; 2) images can be enlightened subjectively according to diverse preferences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Rongkai Zhang , Lanqing Guo , Siyu Huang , Bihan Wen

Large-scale multimodal representation learning successfully optimizes for zero-shot transfer at test time. Yet the standard pretraining paradigm (contrastive learning on large amounts of image-text data) does not explicitly encourage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Karsten Roth , Zeynep Akata , Dima Damen , Ivana Balažević , Olivier J. Hénaff

Uneven light image enhancement is a highly demanded task in many industrial image processing applications. Many existing enhancement methods using physical lighting models or deep-learning techniques often lead to unnatural results. This is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Tian Pu , Shuhang Wang , Zhenming Peng , Qingsong Zhu

This paper introduces a novel unsupervised approach for image deblurring that utilizes a simple process for training data collection, thereby enhancing the applicability and effectiveness of deblurring methods. Our technique does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bang-Dang Pham , Anh Tran , Cuong Pham , Minh Hoai

This paper proposes a self-supervised low light image enhancement method based on deep learning. Inspired by information entropy theory and Retinex model, we proposed a maximum entropy based Retinex model. With this model, a very simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Bin Zhang , Chunhui 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

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

Model inversion, which aims to reconstruct the original training data from pre-trained discriminative models, is especially useful when the original training data is unavailable due to privacy, usage rights, or size constraints. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zixuan Hu , Yongxian Wei , Li Shen , Zhenyi Wang , Lei Li , Chun Yuan , Dacheng Tao

Modern text-to-image diffusion models encode rich visual priors, but expose them only through one-way text-conditioned generation. Existing unified vision--language models derived from them recover bidirectional capability through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Eric Tillmann Bill , Enis Simsar , Alessio Tonioni , Thomas Hofmann

Zero-shot image restoration (IR) methods based on pretrained diffusion models have recently achieved significant success. These methods typically require at least a parametric form of the degradation model. However, in real-world scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Hamadi Chihaoui , Paolo Favaro

Non-blind deblurring methods achieve decent performance under the accurate blur kernel assumption. Since the kernel uncertainty (i.e. kernel error) is inevitable in practice, semi-blind deblurring is suggested to handle it by introducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Xiaole Tang , Xile Zhao , Jun Liu , Jianli Wang , Yuchun Miao , Tieyong Zeng

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

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is a promising approach for synthesizing novel views, given a set of images and the corresponding camera poses of a scene. However, images photographed from a low-light scene can hardly be used to train a NeRF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Haoyuan Wang , Xiaogang Xu , Ke Xu , Rynson WH. Lau

Learning and improving large language models through human preference feedback has become a mainstream approach, but it has rarely been applied to the field of low-light image enhancement. Existing low-light enhancement evaluations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jun Yin , Yangfan He , Miao Zhang , Pengyu Zeng , Tianyi Wang , Shuai Lu , Xueqian Wang

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

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

Pre-training has marked numerous state of the arts in high-level computer vision, while few attempts have ever been made to investigate how pre-training acts in image processing systems. In this paper, we tailor transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Wenbo Li , Xin Lu , Shengju Qian , Jiangbo Lu , Xiangyu Zhang , Jiaya Jia

The event camera, benefiting from its high dynamic range and low latency, provides performance gain for low-light image enhancement. Unlike frame-based cameras, it records intensity changes with extremely high temporal resolution, capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Chunyan She , Fujun Han , Chengyu Fang , Shukai Duan , Lidan Wang