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Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) investigates how to improve illumination and produce normal-light images. The majority of existing methods improve low-light images via a global and uniform manner, without taking into account the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Yuhui Wu , Chen Pan , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Jiwei Wei , Chongyi Li , Heng Tao Shen

Current image compression models often require separate models for each quality level, making them resource-intensive in terms of both training and storage. To address these limitations, we propose an innovative approach that utilizes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Ayman A. Ameen , Thomas Richter , André Kaup

Recent work has shown that learned image compression strategies can outperform standard hand-crafted compression algorithms that have been developed over decades of intensive research on the rate-distortion trade-off. With growing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Felipe Codevilla , Jean Gabriel Simard , Ross Goroshin , Chris Pal

Light field technology has increasingly attracted the attention of the research community with its many possible applications. The lenslet array in commercial plenoptic cameras helps capture both the spatial and angular information of light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Mohana Singh , Renu M. Rameshan

Most existing Low-light Image Enhancement (LLIE) methods either directly map Low-Light (LL) to Normal-Light (NL) images or use semantic or illumination maps as guides. However, the ill-posed nature of LLIE and the difficulty of semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Xiaohong Liu , Shuaicheng Liu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai , Jun Chen

In recent years, there has been rapid development in learned image compression techniques that prioritize ratedistortion-perceptual compression, preserving fine details even at lower bit-rates. However, current learning-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Peirong Ning , Wei Jiang , Ronggang Wang

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

Low-light images frequently occur due to unavoidable environmental influences or technical limitations, such as insufficient lighting or limited exposure time. To achieve better visibility for visual perception, low-light image enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Shilv Cai , Liqun Chen , Sheng Zhong , Luxin Yan , Jiahuan Zhou , Xu Zou

Low-light image enhancement (LIE) aims at precisely and efficiently recovering an image degraded in poor illumination environments. Recent advanced LIE techniques are using deep neural networks, which require lots of low-normal light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yunlong Lin , Zhenqi Fu , Kairun Wen , Tian Ye , Sixiang Chen , Ge Meng , Yingying Wang , Yue Huang , Xiaotong Tu , Xinghao Ding

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

Most existing Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) methods are primarily designed to improve brightness in dark regions, which suffer from severe degradation in nighttime images. However, these methods have limited exploration in another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Wanyu Wu , Wei Wang , Zheng Wang , Kui Jiang , Xin Xu

Real-time low-light image enhancement on mobile and embedded devices requires models that balance visual quality and computational efficiency. Existing deep learning methods often rely on large networks and labeled datasets, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guangrui Bai , Hailong Yan , Wenhai Liu , Yahui Deng , Erbao Dong

In low-light conditions, a conventional camera imaging pipeline produces sub-optimal images that are usually dark and noisy due to a low photon count and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We present a data-driven approach that learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

In practical applications, low-light images are often compressed for efficient storage and transmission. Most existing methods disregard compression artifacts removal or hardly establish a unified framework for joint task enhancement of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Hantang Li , Qiang Zhu , Xiandong Meng , Lei Xiong , Shuyuan Zhu , Xiaopeng Fan

In the past years, learned image compression (LIC) has achieved remarkable performance. The recent LIC methods outperform VVC in both PSNR and MS-SSIM. However, the low bit-rate reconstructions of LIC suffer from artifacts such as blurring,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Dailan He , Ziming Yang , Hongjiu Yu , Tongda Xu , Jixiang Luo , Yuan Chen , Chenjian Gao , Xinjie Shi , Hongwei Qin , Yan Wang

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

Poor image quality in low light images may result in a reduced number of feature matching between images. In this paper, we investigate the performance of feature extraction algorithms in low light environments. To find an optimal setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Pranjay Shyam , Antyanta Bangunharcana , Kyung-Soo Kim

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

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

Learning-based image compression methods have emerged as state-of-the-art, showcasing higher performance compared to conventional compression solutions. These data-driven approaches aim to learn the parameters of a neural network model…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Shima Mohammadi , Yaojun Wu , João Ascenso