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Low-light images often suffer from noise and color distortion. Object detection, semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, and other tasks are challenging when working with low-light images because of image noise and chromatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xiaochun Lei , Weiliang Mai , Junlin Xie , He Liu , Zetao Jiang , Zhaoting Gong , Chang Lu , Linjun Lu

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

This paper introduces a novel lightweight computational framework for enhancing images under low-light conditions, utilizing advanced machine learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional enhancement techniques often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhuoheng Li , Yuheng Pan , Houcheng Yu , Zhiheng Zhang

Aerial images are often degraded by space-varying motion blur and simultaneous uneven illumination. To recover high-quality aerial image from its non-uniform version, we propose a novel patch-wise restoration approach based on a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Rui Chen , Huizhu Jia , Xiaodong Xie , Wen Gao

Maritime images captured under low-light imaging condition easily suffer from low visibility and unexpected noise, leading to negative effects on maritime traffic supervision and management. To promote imaging performance, it is necessary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Yu Guo , Yuxu Lu , Ryan Wen Liu , Meifang Yang , Kwok Tai Chui

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

Two difficulties here make low-light image enhancement a challenging task; firstly, it needs to consider not only luminance restoration but also image contrast, image denoising and color distortion issues simultaneously. Second, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Wenchao Li , Bangshu Xiong , Qiaofeng Ou , Xiaoyun Long , Jinhao Zhu , Jiabao Chen , Shuyuan Wen

This paper proposes a self-supervised low light image enhancement method based on deep learning. Inspired by information entropy theory and Retinex model, we proposed a maximum entropy based Retinex model. With this model, a very simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Bin Zhang , Chunhui Wang

The total variation (TV) regularization has phenomenally boosted various variational models for image processing tasks. We propose to combine the backward diffusion process in the earlier literature of image enhancement with the TV…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Congpei An , Hao-Ning Wu , Xiaoming Yuan

The parameter selection is crucial to regularization based image restoration methods. Generally speaking, a spatially fixed parameter for regularization item in the whole image does not perform well for both edge and smooth areas. A larger…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Tingting Zhang , Jie Chen , Caiying Wu , Zhifei He , Tieyong Zeng , Qiyu Jin

Retinex theory is developed mainly to decompose an image into the illumination and reflectance components by analyzing local image derivatives. In this theory, larger derivatives are attributed to the changes in reflectance, while smaller…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Jun Xu , Yingkun Hou , Dongwei Ren , Li Liu , Fan Zhu , Mengyang Yu , Haoqian Wang , Ling Shao

Images captured under low-light scenarios often suffer from low quality. Previous CNN-based deep learning methods often involve using Retinex theory. Nevertheless, most of them cannot perform well in more complicated datasets like LOL-v2…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jingcheng Li , Ye Qiao , Haocheng Xu , Sitao Huang

Images obtained under low-light conditions will seriously affect the quality of the images. Solving the problem of poor low-light image quality can effectively improve the visual quality of images and better improve the usability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yonglong Jiang , Liangliang Li , Yuan Xue , Hongbing Ma

Retinex-based low-light image enhancement benefits from separating reflectance and illumination, yet recent generative approaches often rely on iterative sampling and are difficult to deploy under strict latency budgets. Consistency models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jian Xu , Wei Chen , Shigui Li , Delu Zeng , John Paisley , Qibin Zhao

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

Multi-exposure image fusion (MEF) synthesizes multiple, differently exposed images of the same scene into a single, well-exposed composite. Retinex theory, which separates image illumination from scene reflectance, provides a natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Haowen Bai , Jiangshe Zhang , Zixiang Zhao , Lilun Deng , Yukun Cui , Shuang Xu

Removing noise from images is a challenging and fundamental problem in the field of computer vision. Images captured by modern cameras are inevitably degraded by noise which limits the accuracy of any quantitative measurements on those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Nikhil Verma , Deepkamal Kaur , Lydia Chau

The difficulties of underwater image degradation due to light scattering, absorption, and fog-like particles which lead to low resolution and poor visibility are discussed in this study report. We suggest a sophisticated hybrid strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Yugandhar Reddy Gogireddy , Jithendra Reddy Gogireddy

Image dehazing deals with the removal of undesired loss of visibility in outdoor images due to the presence of fog. Retinex is a color vision model mimicking the ability of the Human Visual System to robustly discount varying illuminations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Adrian Galdran , Aitor Alvarez-Gila , Alessandro Bria , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Marcelo Bertalmio

Retinex-based low-light image enhancement methods are widely used due to their excellent performance. However, most of them are time-consuming for large-sized images. This paper extends the Retinex model from the spatial domain to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jingtian Zhao , Xueli Xie , Jianxiang Xi , Xiaogang Yang , Haoxuan Sun