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The captured images under low light conditions often suffer insufficient brightness and notorious noise. Hence, low-light image enhancement is a key challenging task in computer vision. A variety of methods have been proposed for this task,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-22 Cheng Zhang , Qingsen Yan , Yu zhu , Xianjun Li , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

Low-light image enhancement strives to improve the contrast, adjust the visibility, and restore the distortion in color and texture. Existing methods usually pay more attention to improving the visibility and contrast via increasing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Huake Wang , Xiaoyang Yan , Xingsong Hou , Junhui Li , Yujie Dun , Kaibing Zhang

Low-Light Image Enhancement is a computer vision task which intensifies the dark images to appropriate brightness. It can also be seen as an ill-posed problem in image restoration domain. With the success of deep neural networks, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Chi-Mao Fan , Tsung-Jung Liu , Kuan-Hsien Liu

The extremes of lighting (e.g. too much or too little light) usually cause many troubles for machine and human vision. Many recent works have mainly focused on under-exposure cases where images are often captured in low-light conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Hue Nguyen , Diep Tran , Khoi Nguyen , Rang Nguyen

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) task tends to restore the details and visual information from corrupted low-light images. Most existing methods learn the mapping function between low/normal-light images by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Qingsen Yan , Yixu Feng , Cheng Zhang , Pei Wang , Peng Wu , Wei Dong , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

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

We report the possibility of using a simple neural network for effortless restoration of low-light images inspired by the retina model, which mimics the neurophysiological principles and dynamics of various types of optical neurons. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Yurui Ming , Yuanyuan Liang

Low-light conditions have an adverse impact on machine cognition, limiting the performance of computer vision systems in real life. Since low-light data is limited and difficult to annotate, we focus on image processing to enhance low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Igor Morawski , Kai He , Shusil Dangi , Winston H. Hsu

Low-light image enhancement is an essential computer vision task to improve image contrast and to decrease the effects of color bias and noise. Many existing interpretable deep-learning algorithms exploit the Retinex theory as the basis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jing-Yi Shi , Ming-Fei Li , Ling-An Wu

Night images suffer not only from low light, but also from uneven distributions of light. Most existing night visibility enhancement methods focus mainly on enhancing low-light regions. This inevitably leads to over enhancement and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yeying Jin , Wenhan Yang , Robby T. Tan

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

Restoring images affected by various types of degradation, such as noise, blur, or improper exposure, remains a significant challenge in computer vision. While recent trends favor complex monolithic all-in-one architectures, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Joanna Wiekiera , Martyna Zur

Low-light image enhancement tasks demand an appropriate balance among brightness, color, and illumination. While existing methods often focus on one aspect of the image without considering how to pay attention to this balance, which will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Nana Yu , Hong Shi , Yahong Han

In this article, we address the challenges of image super-resolution and noise reduction, which are crucial for enhancing the quality of images derived from low-resolution or noisy data. We compared and assessed several approaches for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-06-17 Ngoc-Giau Pham , Thanh-Hai Tong Le , Van-Hieu Duong , Hong-Ngoc Tran , Phuoc-Hung Vo

With the inexorable digitalisation of the modern world, every subset in the field of technology goes through major advancements constantly. One such subset is digital images which are ever so popular. Images can not always be as visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Prashanth Venkataraman

Blind image restoration processors based on convolutional neural network (CNN) are intensively researched because of their high performance. However, they are too sensitive to the perturbation of the degradation model. They easily fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Kazutaka Uchida , Masayuki Tanaka , Masatoshi Okutomi

Rain in the dark poses a significant challenge to deploying real-world applications such as autonomous driving, surveillance systems, and night photography. Existing low-light enhancement or deraining methods struggle to brighten low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Xin Lin , Jingtong Yue , Sixian Ding , Chao Ren , Lu Qi , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Light field photography has been studied thoroughly in recent years. One of its drawbacks is the need for multi-lens in the imaging. To compensate that, compressed light field photography has been proposed to tackle the trade-offs between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Ofir Nabati , David Mendlovic , Raja Giryes

Is it possible to recover an image from its noisy version using convolutional neural networks? This is an interesting problem as convolutional layers are generally used as feature detectors for tasks like classification, segmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Nithish Divakar , R. Venkatesh Babu

This paper introduces a novel deep learning framework for low-light image enhancement, named the Encoder-Decoder Network with Illumination Guidance (EDNIG). Building upon the U-Net architecture, EDNIG integrates an illumination map, derived…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Le-Anh Tran , Chung Nguyen Tran , Ngoc-Luu Nguyen , Nhan Cach Dang , Jordi Carrabina , David Castells-Rufas , Minh Son Nguyen