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In this paper, we rethink the low-light image enhancement task and propose a physically explainable and generative diffusion model for low-light image enhancement, termed as Diff-Retinex. We aim to integrate the advantages of the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Xunpeng Yi , Han Xu , Hao Zhang , Linfeng Tang , Jiayi Ma

This paper proposes a novel image contrast enhancement method based on both a noise aware shadow-up function and Retinex (retina and cortex) decomposition. Under low light conditions, images taken by digital cameras have low contrast in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Chien Cheng Chien , Yuma Kinoshita , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

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 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

Contrast enhancement and noise removal are coupled problems for low-light image enhancement. The existing Retinex based methods do not take the coupling relation into consideration, resulting in under or over-smoothing of the enhanced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Yang Wang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jing Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Wei Zhang , Feng Wu

Prior-based methods for low-light image enhancement often face challenges in extracting available prior information from dim images. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a simple yet effective Retinex model with the proposed edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Chaoyan Huang , Zhongming Wu , Tieyong Zeng

Two difficulties here make low-light image enhancement a challenging task; firstly, it needs to consider not only luminance restoration but also image contrast, image denoising and color distortion issues simultaneously. Second, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Wenchao Li , Bangshu Xiong , Qiaofeng Ou , Xiaoyun Long , Jinhao Zhu , Jiabao Chen , Shuyuan Wen

Low-light images often suffer from noise and color distortion. Object detection, semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, and other tasks are challenging when working with low-light images because of image noise and chromatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xiaochun Lei , Weiliang Mai , Junlin Xie , He Liu , Zetao Jiang , Zhaoting Gong , Chang Lu , Linjun Lu

Low-light image enhancement is generally regarded as a challenging task in image processing, especially for the complex visual tasks at night or weakly illuminated. In order to reduce the blurs or noises on the low-light images, a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Yangming Shi , Xiaopo Wu , Ming Zhu

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

Self-regularized low-light image enhancement does not require any normal-light image in training, thereby freeing from the chains on paired or unpaired low-/normal-images. However, existing methods suffer color deviation and fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Zhuqing Jiang , Haotian Li , Liangjie Liu , Aidong Men , Haiying Wang

Image degradation caused by complex lighting conditions such as low-light and backlit scenarios is commonly encountered in real-world environments, significantly affecting image quality and downstream vision tasks. Most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ziang Wang , Xiaoqin Wang , Dingyi Wang , Qiang Li , Shushan Qiao

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a crucial task in computer vision aimed at enhancing the visual fidelity of images captured under low-illumination conditions. Conventional methods frequently struggle with noise, overexposure, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Namrah Siddiqua , Kim Suneung , Seong-Whan Lee

In this paper, we propose a diffusion-based unsupervised framework that incorporates physically explainable Retinex theory with diffusion models for low-light image enhancement, named LightenDiffusion. Specifically, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Hai Jiang , Ao Luo , Xiaohong Liu , Songchen Han , Shuaicheng Liu

Images obtained under low-light conditions will seriously affect the quality of the images. Solving the problem of poor low-light image quality can effectively improve the visual quality of images and better improve the usability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yonglong Jiang , Liangliang Li , Yuan Xue , Hongbing Ma

Low-light image enhancement aims to restore the under-exposure image captured in dark scenarios. Under such scenarios, traditional frame-based cameras may fail to capture the structure and color information due to the exposure time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xuejian Guo , Zhiqiang Tian , Yuehang Wang , Siqi Li , Yu Jiang , Shaoyi Du , Yue Gao

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the perception or interpretability of an image captured in an environment with poor illumination. Recent advances in this area are dominated by deep learning-based solutions, where many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Chongyi Li , Chunle Guo , Linghao Han , Jun Jiang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jinwei Gu , Chen Change Loy

Detecting objects in low-light scenarios presents a persistent challenge, as detectors trained on well-lit data exhibit significant performance degradation on low-light data due to low visibility. Previous methods mitigate this issue by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhipeng Du , Miaojing Shi , Jiankang Deng

Retinex theory provides a principled foundation for low-light image enhancement, inspiring numerous learning-based methods that integrate its principles. However, existing methods exhibits limitations in accurately decomposing reflectance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bolun Zheng , Qingshan Lei , Quan Chen , Qianyu Zhang , Kainan Yu , Xu Jia , Lingyu Zhu

Retinex model is an effective tool for low-light image enhancement. It assumes that observed images can be decomposed into the reflectance and illumination. Most existing Retinex-based methods have carefully designed hand-crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Chen Wei , Wenjing Wang , Wenhan Yang , Jiaying Liu
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