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In example-based super-resolution, the function relating low-resolution images to their high-resolution counterparts is learned from a given dataset. This data-driven approach to solving the inverse problem of increasing image resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 Alexander Robey , Vidya Ganapati

There has long been a belief that high-level semantics learning can benefit various downstream computer vision tasks. However, in the low-light image enhancement (LLIE) community, existing methods learn a brutal mapping between low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jialang Lu , Huayu Zhao , Huiyu Zhai , Xingxing Yang , Shini Han

Self-supervised learning methods overcome the key bottleneck for building more capable AI: limited availability of labeled data. However, one of the drawbacks of self-supervised architectures is that the representations that they learn are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Avi Ziskind , Sujeong Kim , Giedrius T. Burachas

Low-light image enhancement is a promising solution to tackle the problem of insufficient sensitivity of human vision system (HVS) to perceive information in low light environments. Previous Retinex-based works always accomplish enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-18 Xiaoxiao Li , Xiaopeng Guo , Liye Mei , Mingyu Shang , Jie Gao , Maojing Shu , Xiang Wang

Existing low-light image enhancement techniques are mostly not only difficult to deal with both visual quality and computational efficiency but also commonly invalid in unknown complex scenarios. In this paper, we develop a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Long Ma , Tengyu Ma , Risheng Liu , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

Denoising low-dose computed tomography (CT) images is a critical task in medical image computing. Supervised deep learning-based approaches have made significant advancements in this area in recent years. However, these methods typically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Xuan Liu , Yaoqin Xie , Jun Cheng , Songhui Diao , Shan Tan , Xiaokun Liang

Blind image deblurring is an important yet very challenging problem in low-level vision. Traditional optimization based methods generally formulate this task as a maximum-a-posteriori estimation or variational inference problem, whose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Hui Wang , Zongsheng Yue , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng

Two of the main challenges of image restoration in real-world scenarios are the accurate characterization of an image prior and the precise modeling of the image degradation operator. Pre-trained diffusion models have been very successfully…

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

Images captured in low-light conditions usually suffer from very low contrast, which increases the difficulty of subsequent computer vision tasks in a great extent. In this paper, a low-light image enhancement model based on convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Liang Shen , Zihan Yue , Fan Feng , Quan Chen , Shihao Liu , Jie Ma

We present a new additive image factorization technique that treats images to be composed of multiple latent specular components which can be simply estimated recursively by modulating the sparsity during decomposition. Our model-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Saurabh Saini , P J Narayanan

Inverse rendering is an ill-posed problem. Previous work has sought to resolve this by focussing on priors for object or scene shape or appearance. In this work, we instead focus on a prior for natural illuminations. Current methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 James A. D. Gardner , Bernhard Egger , William A. P. Smith

Low-light images are commonly encountered in real-world scenarios, and numerous low-light image enhancement (LLIE) methods have been proposed to improve the visibility of these images. The primary goal of LLIE is to generate clearer images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Xu Wu , Zhihui Lai , Zhou Jie , Can Gao , Xianxu Hou , Ya-nan Zhang , Linlin Shen

The usage of digital content (photos and videos) in a variety of applications has increased due to the popularity of multimedia devices. These uses include advertising campaigns, educational resources, and social networking platforms. There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Muhammad Turab

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is critical in computer vision. Existing LLIE methods often fail to discover the underlying relationships between different sub-components, causing the loss of complementary information between multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yudi Ruan , Hao Ma , Weikai Li , Xiao Wang

Recovering clear structures from severely blurry inputs is a challenging problem due to the large movements between the camera and the scene. Although some works apply segmentation maps on human face images for deblurring, they cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Pei Wang , Danna Xue , Yu Zhu , Jinqiu Sun , Qingsen Yan , Sung-eui Yoon , Yanning Zhang

Low-light images, i.e. the images captured in low-light conditions, suffer from very poor visibility caused by low contrast, color distortion and significant measurement noise. Low-light image enhancement is about improving the visibility…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Jinxiu Liang , Yong Xu , Yuhui Quan , Jingwen Wang , Haibin Ling , Hui Ji

Human vision relies heavily on available ambient light to perceive objects. Low-light scenes pose two distinct challenges: information loss due to insufficient illumination and undesirable brightness shifts. Low-light image enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Shyang-En Weng , Shaou-Gang Miaou , Ricky Christanto

Evaluating the performance of low-light image enhancement (LLE) is highly subjective, thus making integrating human preferences into image enhancement a necessity. Existing methods fail to consider this and present a series of potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Ling Li , Dong Liang , Yuanhang Gao , Sheng-Jun Huang , Songcan Chen

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

Light field (LF) images containing information for multiple views have numerous applications, which can be severely affected by low-light imaging. Recent learning-based methods for low-light enhancement have some disadvantages, such as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Shansi Zhang , Nan Meng , Edmund Y. Lam