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Night imaging with modern smartphone cameras is troublesome due to low photon count and unavoidable noise in the imaging system. Directly adjusting exposure time and ISO ratings cannot obtain sharp and noise-free images at the same time in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Yuzhi Zhao , Yongzhe Xu , Qiong Yan , Dingdong Yang , Xuehui Wang , Lai-Man Po

Image/video denoising in low-light scenes is an extremely challenging problem due to limited photon count and high noise. In this paper, we propose a novel approach with contrastive learning to address this issue. Inspired by the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Taoyong Cui , Yuhan Dong

Rain in the dark poses a significant challenge to deploying real-world applications such as autonomous driving, surveillance systems, and night photography. Existing low-light enhancement or deraining methods struggle to brighten low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Xin Lin , Jingtong Yue , Sixian Ding , Chao Ren , Lu Qi , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The ability to capture good quality images in the dark and near-zero lux conditions has been a long-standing pursuit of the computer vision community. The seminal work by Chen et al. [5] has especially caused renewed interest in this area,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Mohit Lamba , Atul Balaji , Kaushik Mitra

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

Restoring a sharp light field image from its blurry input has become essential due to the increasing popularity of parallax-based image processing. State-of-the-art blind light field deblurring methods suffer from several issues such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Jonathan Samuel Lumentut , Tae Hyun Kim , Ravi Ramamoorthi , In Kyu Park

Image deblurring is a challenging problem in imaging due to its highly ill-posed nature. Deep learning models have shown great success in tackling this problem but the quest for the best image quality has brought their computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Ziyao Yi , Diego Valsesia , Tiziano Bianchi , Enrico Magli

Recent advances in generative image restoration (IR) have demonstrated impressive results. However, these methods are hindered by their substantial size and computational demands, rendering them unsuitable for deployment on edge devices.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Elad Cohen , Idan Achituve , Idit Diamant , Arnon Netzer , Hai Victor Habi

Images captured in low-light conditions usually suffer from very low contrast, which increases the difficulty of subsequent computer vision tasks in a great extent. In this paper, a low-light image enhancement model based on convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Liang Shen , Zihan Yue , Fan Feng , Quan Chen , Shihao Liu , Jie Ma

Capturing images under extremely low-light conditions poses significant challenges for the standard camera pipeline. Images become too dark and too noisy, which makes traditional enhancement techniques almost impossible to apply. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ahmet Serdar Karadeniz , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

Enhancing low-light traffic images is crucial for reliable perception in autonomous driving, intelligent transportation, and urban surveillance systems. Nighttime and dimly lit traffic scenes often suffer from poor visibility due to low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Siddiqua Namrah

Deep learning-based low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a task of leveraging deep neural networks to enhance the image illumination while keeping the image content unchanged. From the perspective of training data, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Zhao Zhang , Suiyi Zhao , Xiaojie Jin , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang , Shuicheng Yan , Meng Wang

Explicit reconstruction constraints derived from the decoupled representation are further imposed to suppress abnormal channel amplification and chromatic noise. Experiments on LOLv2-Real, MIT-Adobe FiveK, and LSRW show that the proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Guangrui Bai , Yifan Mei , Yahui Deng , Yuhan Chen , Yuze Qiu , Wenhai Liu , Erbao Dong

Deep neural network based methods are the state of the art in various image restoration problems. Standard supervised learning frameworks require a set of noisy measurement and clean image pairs for which a distance between the output of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Rihuan Ke , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Images captured in weak illumination conditions could seriously degrade the image quality. Solving a series of degradation of low-light images can effectively improve the visual quality of images and the performance of high-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jiang Hai , Zhu Xuan , Songchen Han , Ren Yang , Yutong Hao , Fengzhu Zou , Fang Lin

Non-uniform blind deblurring for general dynamic scenes is a challenging computer vision problem as blurs arise not only from multiple object motions but also from camera shake, scene depth variation. To remove these complicated motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Seungjun Nah , Tae Hyun Kim , Kyoung Mu Lee

With the goal of tuning up the brightness, low-light image enhancement enjoys numerous applications, such as surveillance, remote sensing and computational photography. Images captured under low-light conditions often suffer from poor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-21 Zhuqing Jiang , Chang Liu , Ya'nan Wang , Kai Li , Aidong Men , Haiying Wang , Haiyong Luo

This paper presents a novel approach for enabling robust robotic perception in dark environments using infrared (IR) stream. IR stream is less susceptible to noise than RGB in low-light conditions. However, it is dominated by active emitter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Nathan Shankar , Pawel Ladosz , Hujun Yin

Adverse lighting conditions, such as cast shadows and irregular illumination, pose significant challenges to computer vision systems by degrading visibility and color fidelity. Consequently, effective shadow removal and ALN are critical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Youngjin Oh , Junyoung Park , Junhyeong Kwon , Nam Ik Cho

Defocus deblurring is a challenging task due to the spatially varying nature of defocus blur. While deep learning approach shows great promise in solving image restoration problems, defocus deblurring demands accurate training data that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Lingyan Ruan , Bin Chen , Jizhou Li , Miuling Lam