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In the realm of Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE), existing research primarily focuses on enhancing images globally. However, many applications require local LLIE, where users are allowed to illuminate specific regions using an input mask,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Shihurong Yao , Yizhan Huang , Xiaogang Xu

Detecting objects in low-light scenarios presents a persistent challenge, as detectors trained on well-lit data exhibit significant performance degradation on low-light data due to low visibility. Previous methods mitigate this issue by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhipeng Du , Miaojing Shi , Jiankang Deng

Images captured under low-light conditions manifest poor visibility, lack contrast and color vividness. Compared to conventional approaches, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well in enhancing images. However, being solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Aditya Arora , Muhammad Haris , Syed Waqas Zamir , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Enhancing low-light images while maintaining natural colors is a challenging problem due to camera processing variations and limited access to photos with ground-truth lighting conditions. The latter is a crucial factor for supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wojciech Kozłowski , Michał Szachniewicz , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) task aims at improving contrast while restoring details and textures for images captured in low-light conditions. HVI color space has made significant progress in this task by enabling precise decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xin Xu , Hao Liu , Wei Liu , Wei Wang , Jiayi Wu , Kui Jiang

Purpose: This article develops theoretical, algorithmic, perceptual, and interaction aspects of script legibility enhancement in the visible light spectrum for the purpose of scholarly editing of papyri texts. - Methods: Novel legibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Vlad Atanasiu , Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello

Previous low-light image enhancement (LLIE) approaches, while employing frequency decomposition techniques to address the intertwined challenges of low frequency (e.g., illumination recovery) and high frequency (e.g., noise reduction),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Kun Zhou , Xinyu Lin , Wenbo Li , Xiaogang Xu , Yuanhao Cai , Zhonghang Liu , Xiaoguang Han , Jiangbo Lu

The currently leading artificial neural network models of the visual ventral stream - which are derived from a combination of performance optimization and robustification methods - have demonstrated a remarkable degree of behavioral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Morgan B. Talbot , Gabriel Kreiman , James J. DiCarlo , Guy Gaziv

Low-light video enhancement (LLVE) is an important yet challenging task with many applications such as photographing and autonomous driving. Unlike single image low-light enhancement, most LLVE methods utilize temporal information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Lin Liu , Junfeng An , Jianzhuang Liu , Shanxin Yuan , Xiangyu Chen , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

This paper presents a novel network structure with illumination-aware gamma correction and complete image modelling to solve the low-light image enhancement problem. Low-light environments usually lead to less informative large-scale dark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yinglong Wang , Zhen Liu , Jianzhuang Liu , Songcen Xu , Shuaicheng Liu

Currently, low-light conditions present a significant challenge for machine cognition. In this paper, rather than optimizing models by assuming that human and machine cognition are correlated, we use zero-reference low-light enhancement to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Igor Morawski , Kai He , Shusil Dangi , Winston H. Hsu

Deep learning-based low-light image enhancers have made significant progress in recent years, with a trend towards achieving satisfactory visual quality while gradually reducing the number of parameters and improving computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Nan An , Long Ma , Guangchao Han , Xin Fan , RIsheng Liu

Low-light image enhancement (LLE) aims to improve the visual quality of images captured in poorly lit conditions, which often suffer from low brightness, low contrast, noise, and color distortions. These issues hinder the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Junyu Xia , Jiesong Bai , Yihang Dong

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) aims to restore vivid content and details from corrupted low-light images. However, existing standard RGB (sRGB) color space-based LLIE methods often produce color bias and brightness artifacts due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Qingsen Yan , Kangbiao Shi , Yixu Feng , Tao Hu , Peng Wu , Guansong Pang , Yanning Zhang

Imaging and perception in photon-limited scenarios is necessary for various applications, e.g., night surveillance or photography, high-speed photography, and autonomous driving. In these cases, cameras suffer from low signal-to-noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Bo Zhang , Yuchen Guo , Runzhao Yang , Zhihong Zhang , Jiayi Xie , Jinli Suo , Qionghai Dai

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the presence of noise, loss of detail, and poor contrast in images captured under insufficient lighting conditions. Recent methods often rely solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Alexandru Brateanu , Raul Balmez , Ciprian Orhei , Codruta Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti

Real-world low-light images often suffer from complex degradations such as local overexposure, low brightness, noise, and uneven illumination. Supervised methods tend to overfit to specific scenarios, while unsupervised methods, though…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Huaqiu Li , Xiaowan Hu , Haoqian Wang

Recent advances in Image Quality Assessment (IQA) have leveraged Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to generate descriptive explanations. However, despite their strong visual perception modules, these models often fail to reliably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yuan Li , Zitang Sun , Yen-Ju Chen , Shin'ya Nishida

The quality assessment (QA) of restored low light images is an important tool for benchmarking and improving low light restoration (LLR) algorithms. While several LLR algorithms exist, the subjective perception of the restored images has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Vignesh Kannan , Sameer Malik , Rajiv Soundararajan

Natural Language Image Editing (NLIE) aims to use natural language instructions to edit images. Since novices are inexperienced with image editing techniques, their instructions are often ambiguous and contain high-level abstractions that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Tzu-Hsiang Lin , Alexander Rudnicky , Trung Bui , Doo Soon Kim , Jean Oh