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In an underwater scene, wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering degrade the visibility of images, causing low contrast and distorted color casts. To address this problem, we propose a convolutional neural network based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Saeed Anwar , Chongyi Li , Fatih Porikli

Low-light image enhancement task is essential yet challenging as it is ill-posed intrinsically. Previous arts mainly focus on the low-light images captured in the visible spectrum using pixel-wise loss, which limits the capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Shulin Tian , Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Most existing methods usually formulate the non-blind deconvolution problem into a maximum-a-posteriori framework and address it by manually designing kinds of regularization terms and data terms of the latent clear images. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Pin-Hung Kuo , Jinshan Pan , Shao-Yi Chien , Ming-Hsuan Yang

One popular strategy for image denoising is to design a generalized regularization term that is capable of exploring the implicit prior underlying data observation. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown the powerful capability to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Peng Liu , Xiaoxiao Zhou , Junyiyang Li , El Basha Mohammad D , Ruogu Fang

Images captured in poorly lit conditions are often corrupted by acquisition noise. Leveraging recent advances in graph-based regularization, we propose a fast Retinex-based restoration scheme that denoises and contrast-enhances an image.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Yeganeh Gharedaghi , Gene Cheung , Xianming Liu

Images taken in a low light condition with the presence of camera shake suffer from motion blur and photon shot noise. While state-of-the-art image restoration networks show promising results, they are largely limited to well-illuminated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Yash Sanghvi , Zhiyuan Mao , Stanley H. Chan

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve illumination while preserving high-quality color and texture. However, existing methods often fail to extract reliable feature representations due to severely degraded pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xu Wu , Zhihui Lai , Xianxu Hou , Jie Zhou , Ya-nan Zhang , Linlin Shen

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

Low level image restoration is an integral component of modern artificial intelligence (AI) driven camera pipelines. Most of these frameworks are based on deep neural networks which present a massive computational overhead on resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Avisek Lahiri , Sourav Bairagya , Sutanu Bera , Siddhant Haldar , Prabir Kumar Biswas

In recent years, the widespread use of deep neural networks (DNNs) has facilitated great improvements in performance for computer vision tasks like image classification and object recognition. In most realistic computer vision applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Tejas Borkar , Lina Karam

The restoration of images affected by blur and noise has been widely studied and has broad potential for applications including in medical imaging modalities like computed tomography (CT). Although the blur and noise in CT images can be…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Yijie Yuan , Grace J. Gang , J. Webster Stayman

Custom and natural lighting conditions can be emulated in images of the scene during post-editing. Extraordinary capabilities of the deep learning framework can be utilized for such purpose. Deep image relighting allows automatic photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Sourya Dipta Das , Nisarg A. Shah , Saikat Dutta , Himanshu Kumar

In the past few decades, to reduce the risk of X-ray in computed tomography (CT), low-dose CT image denoising has attracted extensive attention from researchers, which has become an important research issue in the field of medical images.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Tengfei Liang , Yi Jin , Yidong Li , Tao Wang , Songhe Feng , Congyan Lang

Synthesizing normal-light novel views from low-light multiview images is an important yet challenging task, given the low visibility and high ISO noise present in the input images. Existing low-light enhancement methods often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Ze Li , Feng Zhang , Xiatian Zhu , Meng Zhang , Yanghong Zhou , P. Y. Mok

Nighttime photography encounters escalating challenges in extremely low-light conditions, primarily attributable to the ultra-low signal-to-noise ratio. For real-world deployment, a practical solution must not only produce visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Jiazhang Zheng , Lei Li , Qiuping Liao , Cheng Li , Li Li , Yangxing Liu

In real-world scenarios, images captured often suffer from blurring, noise, and other forms of image degradation, and due to sensor limitations, people usually can only obtain low dynamic range images. To achieve high-quality images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Kangzhen Yang , Tao Hu , Kexin Dai , Genggeng Chen , Yu Cao , Wei Dong , Peng Wu , Yanning Zhang , Qingsen Yan

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a pervasive yet challenging problem, since: 1) low-light measurements may vary due to different imaging conditions in practice; 2) images can be enlightened subjectively according to diverse preferences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Rongkai Zhang , Lanqing Guo , Siyu Huang , Bihan Wen

In this paper, we present Self-DACE++, an improved unsupervised and lightweight framework for Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE), building upon our previous Self-Reference Deep Adaptive Curve Estimation (Self-DACE). To better address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jianyu Wen , Jun Xie , Feng Chen , Zhepeng Wang , Chenhao Wu , Tong Zhang , Yixuan Yu , Piotr Swierczynski

Image denoising is always a challenging task in the field of computer vision and image processing. In this paper, we have proposed an encoder-decoder model with direct attention, which is capable of denoising and reconstruct highly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-17 Kazi Nazmul Haque , Mohammad Abu Yousuf , Rajib Rana

We introduce a neural network-based method to denoise pairs of images taken in quick succession, with and without a flash, in low-light environments. Our goal is to produce a high-quality rendering of the scene that preserves the color and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Zhihao Xia , Michaël Gharbi , Federico Perazzi , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Ayan Chakrabarti