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Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is an ill-posed inverse problem due to the lack of knowledge of the desired image which is obtained under ideal illumination conditions. Low-light conditions give rise to two main issues: a suppressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Mustafa Ozcan , Hamza Ergezer , Mustafa Ayazaoglu

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) is a crucial computer vision task that aims to restore detailed visual information from corrupted low-light images. Many existing LLIE methods are based on standard RGB (sRGB) space, which often produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Qingsen Yan , Yixu Feng , Cheng Zhang , Guansong Pang , Kangbiao Shi , Peng Wu , Wei Dong , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

Low-light images often suffer from limited visibility and multiple types of degradation, rendering low-light image enhancement (LIE) a non-trivial task. Some endeavors have been recently made to enhance low-light images using convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zixiang Wei , Yiting Wang , Lichao Sun , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Lin Wang

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) is crucial for improving both human perception and computer vision tasks. This paper addresses two challenges in zero-reference LLIE: obtaining perceptually 'good' images using the Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the presence of noise, loss of detail, and poor contrast in images captured under insufficient lighting conditions. Recent methods often rely solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Alexandru Brateanu , Raul Balmez , Ciprian Orhei , Codruta Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti

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

Although significant progress has been made in enhancing visibility, retrieving texture details, and mitigating noise in Low-Light (LL) images, the challenge persists in applying current Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Xiaohong Liu , Yulun Zhang , Guangtao Zhai , Jun Chen

Images captured in nighttime scenes suffer from severely reduced visibility, hindering effective content perception. Current low-light image enhancement (LLIE) methods face significant challenges: data-driven end-to-end mapping networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Tongshun Zhang , Pingping Liu , Zhe Zhang , Qiuzhan Zhou

With the goal of tuning up the brightness, low-light image enhancement enjoys numerous applications, such as surveillance, remote sensing and computational photography. Images captured under low-light conditions often suffer from poor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-21 Zhuqing Jiang , Chang Liu , Ya'nan Wang , Kai Li , Aidong Men , Haiying Wang , Haiyong Luo

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

Unlike single image task, stereo image enhancement can use another view information, and its key stage is how to perform cross-view feature interaction to extract useful information from another view. However, complex noise in low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Minghua Zhao , Xiangdong Qin , Shuangli Du , Xuefei Bai , Jiahao Lyu , Yiguang Liu

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

Current deep learning methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) typically rely on pixel-wise mapping learned from paired data. However, these methods often overlook the importance of considering degradation representations, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ziqian Shao , Wenhan Luo , Bjorn Stenger , Tae-Kyun Kim , Wei Liu , Hongdong Li

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

As the quality of optical sensors improves, there is a need for processing large-scale images. In particular, the ability of devices to capture ultra-high definition (UHD) images and video places new demands on the image processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Tianrun Shen , Wenhan Luo , Bjorn Stenger , Tong Lu

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) aims to restore vivid content and details from corrupted low-light images. However, existing standard RGB (sRGB) color space-based LLIE methods often produce color bias and brightness artifacts due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Qingsen Yan , Kangbiao Shi , Yixu Feng , Tao Hu , Peng Wu , Guansong Pang , Yanning Zhang

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable progress in enhancing low-light images by improving their brightness and eliminating noise. However, most existing methods construct end-to-end mapping networks heuristically, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Naishan Zheng , Man Zhou , Yanmeng Dong , Xiangyu Rui , Jie Huang , Chongyi Li , Feng Zhao

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) task aims at improving contrast while restoring details and textures for images captured in low-light conditions. HVI color space has made significant progress in this task by enabling precise decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xin Xu , Hao Liu , Wei Liu , Wei Wang , Jiayi Wu , Kui Jiang

In this paper, we present a simple yet highly effective "free lunch" solution for low-light image enhancement (LLIE), which aims to restore low-light images as if acquired in well-illuminated environments. Our method necessitates no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Joshua Cho , Sara Aghajanzadeh , Zhen Zhu , D. A. Forsyth

Due to the nature of enhancement--the absence of paired ground-truth information, high-level vision tasks have been recently employed to evaluate the performance of low-light image enhancement. A widely-used manner is to see how accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mingjia Li , Hao Zhao , Xiaojie Guo