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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

Training a linear classifier or lightweight model on top of pretrained vision model outputs, so-called 'frozen features', leads to impressive performance on a number of downstream few-shot tasks. Currently, frozen features are not modified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Andreas Bär , Neil Houlsby , Mostafa Dehghani , Manoj Kumar

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is vital for safety-critical applications such as surveillance, autonomous navigation, and medical imaging, where visibility degradation can impair downstream task performance. Recently, diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Eashan Adhikarla , Yixin Liu , Brian D. Davison

We introduce LTCF-Net, a novel network architecture designed for enhancing low-light images. Unlike Retinex-based methods, our approach utilizes two color spaces - LAB and YUV - to efficiently separate and process color information, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Gaojing Zhang , Jinglun Feng

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

Feature extraction and processing tasks play a key role in Image Fusion, and the fusion performance is directly affected by the different features and processing methods undertaken. By contrast, most of deep learning-based methods use deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tariq S. Durrani

Raw low light image enhancement (LLIE) has achieved much better performance than the sRGB domain enhancement methods due to the merits of raw data. However, the ambiguity between noisy to clean and raw to sRGB mappings may mislead the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Qirui Yang , Qihua Cheng , Huanjing Yue , Le Zhang , Yihao Liu , Jingyu Yang

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end feature fusion at-tention network (FFA-Net) to directly restore the haze-free image. The FFA-Net architecture consists of three key components: 1) A novel Feature Attention (FA) module combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Xu Qin , Zhilin Wang , Yuanchao Bai , Xiaodong Xie , Huizhu Jia

This paper introduces a Factor Augmented Sparse Throughput (FAST) model that utilizes both latent factors and sparse idiosyncratic components for nonparametric regression. The FAST model bridges factor models on one end and sparse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Jianqing Fan , Yihong Gu

With the development of deep learning, numerous methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) have demonstrated remarkable performance. Mainstream LLIE methods typically learn an end-to-end mapping based on pairs of low-light and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jiahui Tang , Kaihua Zhou , Zhijian Luo , Yueen Hou

Low-light images challenge both human perceptions and computer vision algorithms. It is crucial to make algorithms robust to enlighten low-light images for computational photography and computer vision applications such as real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Shen Zheng , Gaurav Gupta

Low-light image enhancement is a crucial preprocessing task for some complex vision tasks. Target detection, image segmentation, and image recognition outcomes are all directly impacted by the impact of image enhancement. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mengfei Wu , Xucheng Xue , Taiji Lan , Xinwei Xu

We present IllumFlow, a novel framework that synergizes conditional Rectified Flow (CRF) with Retinex theory for low-light image enhancement (LLIE). Our model addresses low-light enhancement through separate optimization of illumination and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Wenyang Wei , Yang yang , Xixi Jia , Xiangchu Feng , Weiwei Wang , Renzhen Wang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to restore natural visibility, color fidelity, and structural detail under severe illumination degradation. State-of-the-art (SOTA) LLIE techniques often rely on large models and multi-stage training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexandru Brateanu , Tingting Mu , Codruta Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti

We propose rectified factor networks (RFNs) to efficiently construct very sparse, non-linear, high-dimensional representations of the input. RFN models identify rare and small events in the input, have a low interference between code units,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Djork-Arné Clevert , Andreas Mayr , Thomas Unterthiner , Sepp Hochreiter

Depth estimation from light field (LF) images is a fundamental step for numerous applications. Recently, learning-based methods have achieved higher accuracy and efficiency than the traditional methods. However, it is costly to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Shansi Zhang , Nan Meng , Edmund Y. Lam

As vision based perception methods are usually built on the normal light assumption, there will be a serious safety issue when deploying them into low light environments. Recently, deep learning based methods have been proposed to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Junjie Hu , Xiyue Guo , Junfeng Chen , Guanqi Liang , Fuqin Deng , Tin lun Lam

Due to the singularity of real-world paired datasets and the complexity of low-light environments, this leads to supervised methods lacking a degree of scene generalisation. Meanwhile, limited by poor lighting and content guidance, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Jinhong He , Shivakumara Palaiahnakote , Aoxiang Ning , Minglong Xue

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

Various factors such as ambient lighting conditions, noise, motion blur, etc. affect the quality of captured face images. Poor quality face images often reduce the performance of face analysis and recognition systems. Hence, it is important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Rajeev Yasarla , Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze , Vishal M Patel