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Leveraging the visual priors of pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models offers a promising solution to enhance zero-shot generalization in dense prediction tasks. However, existing methods often uncritically use the original diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jing He , Haodong Li , Wei Yin , Yixun Liang , Leheng Li , Kaiqiang Zhou , Hongbo Zhang , Bingbing Liu , Ying-Cong Chen

Autonomous vehicles and robots often struggle with reliable visual perception at night due to the low illumination and motion blur caused by the long exposure time of RGB cameras. Existing methods address this challenge by sequentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Ling Wang , Chen Wu , Lin Wang

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

We study the deep image prior (DIP) framework applied to photoacoustic tomography (PAT) as an unsupervised reconstruction approach to mitigate limited-view artifacts and noise commonly encountered in experimental settings. Efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Hanna Pulkkinen , Jenni Poimala , Leonid Kunyansky , Janek Gröhl , Andreas Hauptmann

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a non-invasive imaging modality that detects the ultrasound signal generated from tissue with light excitation. Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) uses unfocused large-area light to illuminate the target…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Hengrong Lan , Jiali Gong , Fei Gao

Ill-posed inverse problems appear in many image processing applications, such as deblurring and super-resolution. In recent years, solutions that are based on deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown great promise. Yet, most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Shady Abu-Hussein , Tom Tirer , Se Young Chun , Yonina C. Eldar , Raja Giryes

Due to the nature of enhancement--the absence of paired ground-truth information, high-level vision tasks have been recently employed to evaluate the performance of low-light image enhancement. A widely-used manner is to see how accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mingjia Li , Hao Zhao , Xiaojie Guo

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a fundamental task in computational photography, aiming to improve illumination, reduce noise, and enhance the image quality of low-light images. While recent advancements primarily focus on customizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Tong Li , Lizhi Wang , Hansen Feng , Lin Zhu , Wanxuan Lu , Hua Huang

In this paper, we present a novel low-light image enhancement method called dark region-aware low-light image enhancement (DALE), where dark regions are accurately recognized by the proposed visual attention module and their brightness are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-31 Dokyeong Kwon , Guisik Kim , Junseok Kwon

The computational burden of the iterative sampling process remains a major challenge in diffusion-based Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE). Current acceleration methods, whether training-based or training-free, often lead to significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Guanzhou Lan , Qianli Ma , Yuqi Yang , Zhigang Wang , Dong Wang , Xuelong Li , Bin Zhao

The usage of digital content (photos and videos) in a variety of applications has increased due to the popularity of multimedia devices. These uses include advertising campaigns, educational resources, and social networking platforms. There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Muhammad Turab

Recently, there have been significant advancements in Image Restoration based on CNN and transformer. However, the inherent characteristics of the Image Restoration task are often overlooked in many works. They, instead, tend to focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Dongqi Fan , Ting Yue , Xin Zhao , Renjing Xu , Liang Chang

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

Image degradation caused by complex lighting conditions such as low-light and backlit scenarios is commonly encountered in real-world environments, significantly affecting image quality and downstream vision tasks. Most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ziang Wang , Xiaoqin Wang , Dingyi Wang , Qiang Li , Shushan Qiao

Low-light image enhancement presents two primary challenges: 1) Significant variations in low-light images across different conditions, and 2) Enhancement levels influenced by subjective preferences and user intent. To address these issues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Ming Zhao , Pingping Liu , Tongshun Zhang , Zhe Zhang

Complex degradations like noise, blur, and low resolution are typical challenges in real world image fusion tasks, limiting the performance and practicality of existing methods. End to end neural network based approaches are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yu Shi , Yu Liu , Zhong-Cheng Wu , Juan Cheng , Huafeng Li , Xun Chen

In this paper, we propose a 2-stage low-light image enhancement method called Self-Reference Deep Adaptive Curve Estimation (Self-DACE). In the first stage, we present an intuitive, lightweight, fast, and unsupervised luminance enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Jianyu Wen , Chenhao Wu , Tong Zhang , Yixuan Yu , Piotr Swierczynski

Hyperspectral image (HSI) restoration aims at recovering clean images from degraded observations and plays a vital role in downstream tasks. Existing model-based methods have limitations in accurately modeling the complex image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Li Pang , Xiangyu Rui , Long Cui , Hongzhong Wang , Deyu Meng , Xiangyong Cao

The quality of a fundus image can be compromised by numerous factors, many of which are challenging to be appropriately and mathematically modeled. In this paper, we introduce a novel diffusion model based framework, named Learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Puijin Cheng , Li Lin , Yijin Huang , Huaqing He , Wenhan Luo , Xiaoying Tang

Deep learning-based methods have achieved remarkable success in image restoration and enhancement, but are they still competitive when there is a lack of paired training data? As one such example, this paper explores the low-light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Yifan Jiang , Xinyu Gong , Ding Liu , Yu Cheng , Chen Fang , Xiaohui Shen , Jianchao Yang , Pan Zhou , Zhangyang Wang