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Large-scale generative models are capable of producing high-quality images from detailed text descriptions. However, many aspects of an image are difficult or impossible to convey through text. We introduce self-guidance, a method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Dave Epstein , Allan Jabri , Ben Poole , Alexei A. Efros , Aleksander Holynski

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-level enhancement and high-level visual understanding in low-light vision have traditionally been treated separately. Low-light enhancement improves image quality for downstream tasks, but existing methods rely on physical or geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Sen Wang , Shao Zeng , Tianjun Gu , Zhizhong Zhang , Ruixin Zhang , Shouhong Ding , Jingyun Zhang , Jun Wang , Xin Tan , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

Low-light image enhancement is generally regarded as a challenging task in image processing, especially for the complex visual tasks at night or weakly illuminated. In order to reduce the blurs or noises on the low-light images, a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Yangming Shi , Xiaopo Wu , Ming Zhu

With the rapid development of text-to-vision generation diffusion models, classifier-free guidance has emerged as the most prevalent method for conditioning. However, this approach inherently requires twice as many steps for model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Huixuan Zhang , Junzhe Zhang , Xiaojun Wan

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) faces persistent challenges in balancing reconstruction fidelity with cross-scenario generalization. While existing methods predominantly focus on deterministic pixel-level mappings between paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Derong Kong , Zhixiong Yang , Shengxi Li , Shuaifeng Zhi , Li Liu , Zhen Liu , Jingyuan Xia

Images captured in challenging environments often experience various forms of degradation, including noise, color cast, blur, and light scattering. These effects significantly reduce image quality, hindering their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Abbas Anwar , Mohammad Shullar , Ali Arshad Nasir , Mudassir Masood , Saeed Anwar

While recent low-light image enhancement (LLIE) methods have made significant advancements, they still face challenges in terms of low visual quality and weak generalization ability when applied to complex scenarios. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ye Yu , Fengxin Chen , Jun Yu , Zhen Kan

For the past few years, deep generative models have increasingly been used in biological research for a variety of tasks. Recently, they have proven to be valuable for uncovering subtle cell phenotypic differences that are not directly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Anis Bourou , Thomas Boyer , Kévin Daupin , Véronique Dubreuil , Aurélie De Thonel , Valérie Mezger , Auguste Genovesio

Analytical diffusion models offer a mathematically transparent path to generative modeling by formulating the denoising score as an empirical-Bayes posterior mean. However, this interpretability comes at a prohibitive cost: the standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Xinyi Shang , Peng Sun , Jingyu Lin , Zhiqiang Shen

Low-light image enhancement is an important task in computer vision, essential for improving the visibility and quality of images captured in non-optimal lighting conditions. Inadequate illumination can lead to significant information loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ezequiel Perez-Zarate , Oscar Ramos-Soto , Chunxiao Liu , Diego Oliva , Marco Perez-Cisneros

Developing effective approaches to generate enhanced results that align well with human visual preferences for high-quality well-lit images remains a challenge in low-light image enhancement (LLIE). In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiaorui Zhao , Xinyue Zhou , Peibei Cao , Junyu Lou , Shuhang Gu

Image generation algorithms are increasingly integral to diverse aspects of human society, driven by their practical applications. However, insufficient oversight in artificial Intelligence generated content (AIGC) can facilitate the spread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Wenhao Luo , Zhangyi Shen , Ye Yao , Feng Ding , Guopu Zhu , Weizhi Meng

Faithful image super-resolution (SR) not only needs to recover images that appear realistic, similar to image generation tasks, but also requires that the restored images maintain fidelity and structural consistency with the input. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Junyang Chen , Jinshan Pan , Jiangxin Dong

Adding additional control to pretrained diffusion models has become an increasingly popular research area, with extensive applications in computer vision, reinforcement learning, and AI for science. Recently, several studies have proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yifei Shen , Xinyang Jiang , Yezhen Wang , Yifan Yang , Dongqi Han , Dongsheng Li

2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) is an emerging explicit scene representation method with significant potential for image compression due to high fidelity and high compression ratios. However, existing low-light enhancement algorithms operate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yuhan Chen , Wenxuan Yu , Guofa Li , Yijun Xu , Ying Fang , Yicui Shi , Long Cao , Wenbo Chu , Keqiang Li

Rectified Flow text-to-image models surpass diffusion models in image quality and text alignment, but adapting ReFlow for real-image editing remains challenging. We propose a new real-image editing method for ReFlow by analyzing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Jimyeong Kim , Jungwon Park , Yeji Song , Nojun Kwak , Wonjong Rhee

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in low-light image enhancement (LLIE) due to its importance for critical downstream tasks. Current Retinex-based methods and learning-based approaches have shown significant LLIE…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yasin Demir , Nur Hüseyin Kaplan , Sefa Kucuk , Nagihan Severoglu

This work studies the challenging problem of acquiring high-quality underwater images via 4-D light field (LF) imaging. To this end, we propose GeoDiff-LF, a novel diffusion-based framework built upon SD-Turbo to enhance underwater 4-D LF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yuji Lin , Qian Zhao , Zongsheng Yue , Junhui Hou , Deyu Meng

Conditional diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in image manipulation tasks. The general pipeline involves adding noise to the image and then denoising it. However, this method faces a trade-off problem: adding too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Luozhou Wang , Shuai Yang , Shu Liu , Ying-cong Chen