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Low light images suffer from severe noise, low brightness, low contrast, etc. In previous researches, many image enhancement methods have been proposed, but few methods can deal with these problems simultaneously. In this paper, to solve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Bin Zhang , Ruihang Ji , Chunhui Wang

A novel method of contrast enhancement is proposed for underexposed images, in which heavy noise is hidden. Under low light conditions, images taken by digital cameras have low contrast in dark or bright regions. This is due to a limited…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Chien-Cheng Chien , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

When one captures images in low-light conditions, the images often suffer from low visibility. This poor quality may significantly degrade the performance of many computer vision and multimedia algorithms that are primarily designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Xiaojie Guo

A novel color image enhancement method is proposed based on Retinex to enhance color images under non-uniform illumination or poor visibility conditions. Different from the conventional Retinex algorithms, the Weighted Guided Image Filter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Qi Mu , Yanyan Wei , Zhanli Li

Under challenging light conditions, captured images often suffer from various degradations, leading to a decline in the performance of vision-based applications. Although numerous methods have been proposed to enhance image quality, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jing Tao , You Li , Banglei Guan , Yang Shang , Qifeng Yu

When enhancing low-light images, many deep learning algorithms are based on the Retinex theory. However, the Retinex model does not consider the corruptions hidden in the dark or introduced by the light-up process. Besides, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Yuanhao Cai , Hao Bian , Jing Lin , Haoqian Wang , Radu Timofte , Yulun Zhang

Retinex model has been applied to low-light image enhancement in many existing methods. More appropriate decomposition of a low-light image can help achieve better image enhancement. In this paper, we propose a new pixel-level non-local…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Hao Hou , Yingkun Hou , Yuxuan Shi , Benzheng Wei , Jun Xu

Although remarkable progress has been made, existing methods for enhancing underexposed photos tend to produce visually unpleasing results due to the existence of visual artifacts (e.g., color distortion, loss of details and uneven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Qing Zhang , Yongwei Nie , Lei Zhu , Chunxia Xiao , Wei-Shi Zheng

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

Due to the low accuracy of object detection and recognition in many intelligent surveillance systems at nighttime, the quality of night images is crucial. Compared with the corresponding daytime image, nighttime image is characterized as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Xinyi Bai , Steffi Agino Priyanka , Hsiao-Jung Tung , Yuankai Wang

Images taken in low light often show color shift, low contrast, noise, and other artifacts that hurt computer-vision accuracy. Retinex theory addresses this by viewing an image S as the pixel-wise product of reflectance R and illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sos Agaian , Vladimir Frants

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the visibility of images captured in poorly lit environments. Prevalent event-based solutions primarily utilize events triggered by motion, i.e., ''motion events'' to strengthen only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lei Sun , Yuhan Bao , Jiajun Zhai , Jingyun Liang , Yulun Zhang , Kaiwei Wang , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

In this paper, we propose a novel low-light image enhancement method aimed at improving the performance of recognition models. Despite recent advances in deep learning, the recognition of images under low-light conditions remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Seitaro Ono , Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito , Masato Tsukada

Low-light image denoising and enhancement are challenging, especially when traditional noise assumptions, such as Gaussian noise, do not hold in majority. In many real-world scenarios, such as low-light imaging, noise is signal-dependent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Isha Rao , Ratul Chakraborty , Sanjay Ghosh

For the task of low-light image enhancement, deep learning-based algorithms have demonstrated superiority and effectiveness compared to traditional methods. However, these methods, primarily based on Retinex theory, tend to overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shuang Wang , Qianwen Lu , Boxing Peng , Yihe Nie , Qingchuan Tao

Low-light image enhancement presents two primary challenges: 1) Significant variations in low-light images across different conditions, and 2) Enhancement levels influenced by subjective preferences and user intent. To address these issues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Ming Zhao , Pingping Liu , Tongshun Zhang , Zhe Zhang

Images captured under low-light conditions often suffer from (partially) poor visibility. Besides unsatisfactory lightings, multiple types of degradations, such as noise and color distortion due to the limited quality of cameras, hide in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yonghua Zhang , Jiawan Zhang , Xiaojie Guo

Images obtained in real-world low-light conditions are not only low in brightness, but they also suffer from many other types of degradation, such as color distortion, unknown noise, detail loss and halo artifacts. In this paper, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Xinxu Wei , Xianshi Zhang , Shisen Wang , Cheng Cheng , Yanlin Huang , Kaifu Yang , Yongjie Li

Many low-light enhancement methods ignore intensive noise in original images. As a result, they often simultaneously enhance the noise as well. Furthermore, extra denoising procedures adopted by most methods ruin the details. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Xutong Ren , Mading Li , Wen-Huang Cheng , Jiaying Liu

Images captured in weak illumination conditions could seriously degrade the image quality. Solving a series of degradation of low-light images can effectively improve the visual quality of images and the performance of high-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jiang Hai , Zhu Xuan , Songchen Han , Ren Yang , Yutong Hao , Fengzhu Zou , Fang Lin