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Images captured under low-light conditions often suffer from (partially) poor visibility. Besides unsatisfactory lightings, multiple types of degradations, such as noise and color distortion due to the limited quality of cameras, hide in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yonghua Zhang , Jiawan Zhang , Xiaojie Guo

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve illumination while preserving high-quality color and texture. However, existing methods often fail to extract reliable feature representations due to severely degraded pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xu Wu , Zhihui Lai , Xianxu Hou , Jie Zhou , Ya-nan Zhang , Linlin Shen

Deep learning-based image enhancement methods show significant advantages in reducing noise and improving visibility in low-light conditions. These methods are typically based on one-to-one mapping, where the model learns a direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Miao Zhang , Jun Yin , Pengyu Zeng , Yiqing Shen , Shuai Lu , Xueqian Wang

When enhancing low-light images, many deep learning algorithms are based on the Retinex theory. However, the Retinex model does not consider the corruptions hidden in the dark or introduced by the light-up process. Besides, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Yuanhao Cai , Hao Bian , Jing Lin , Haoqian Wang , Radu Timofte , Yulun Zhang

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) has long been a challenging problem in low-level vision, as insufficient illumination often leads to low contrast, detail loss, and noise. Recent studies show that deep learning-based Retinex theory can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ziqi Wang , Xu Zhang , Laibin Chang , Shi Chen , Jiaqi Ma , Huan Zhang

Low-light image enhancement remains a challenging problem due to severe noise, color distortion, contrast degradation, and loss of structural details under insufficient illumination. Existing methods typically apply uniform enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Bibhabasu Debnath , Sahana Ray , Sanjay Ghosh

Low-light image enhancement remains a challenging task, particularly in the absence of paired training data. In this study, we present LucentVisionNet, a novel zero-shot learning framework that addresses the limitations of traditional and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Hassan Khalid , Nisar Ahmed

Convolutional neural network (CNN) based image enhancement methods such as super-resolution and detail enhancement have achieved remarkable performances. However, amounts of operations including convolution and parameters within the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Sangwook Baek , Yongsup Park , Youngo Park , Jungmin Lee , Kwangpyo Choi

Supervised networks address the task of low-light enhancement using paired images. However, collecting a wide variety of low-light/clean paired images is tedious as the scene needs to remain static during imaging. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Praveen Kandula , Maitreya Suin , A. N. Rajagopalan

Recent years have witnessed the great advances of deep neural networks (DNNs) in light field (LF) image super-resolution (SR). However, existing DNN-based LF image SR methods are developed on a single fixed degradation (e.g., bicubic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yingqian Wang , Zhengyu Liang , Longguang Wang , Jungang Yang , Wei An , Yulan Guo

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

With the development of deep learning, numerous methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) have demonstrated remarkable performance. Mainstream LLIE methods typically learn an end-to-end mapping based on pairs of low-light and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jiahui Tang , Kaihua Zhou , Zhijian Luo , Yueen Hou

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

Retinex theory provides a principled foundation for low-light image enhancement, inspiring numerous learning-based methods that integrate its principles. However, existing methods exhibits limitations in accurately decomposing reflectance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bolun Zheng , Qingshan Lei , Quan Chen , Qianyu Zhang , Kainan Yu , Xu Jia , Lingyu Zhu

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

For the task of low-light image enhancement, deep learning-based algorithms have demonstrated superiority and effectiveness compared to traditional methods. However, these methods, primarily based on Retinex theory, tend to overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shuang Wang , Qianwen Lu , Boxing Peng , Yihe Nie , Qingchuan Tao

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the visibility of degraded images to better align with human visual perception. While diffusion-based methods have shown promising performance due to their strong generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jinhong He , Minglong Xue , Zhipu Liu , Mingliang Zhou , Aoxiang Ning , Palaiahnakote Shivakumara

Low-light images challenge both human perceptions and computer vision algorithms. It is crucial to make algorithms robust to enlighten low-light images for computational photography and computer vision applications such as real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Shen Zheng , Gaurav Gupta

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is a promising approach for synthesizing novel views, given a set of images and the corresponding camera poses of a scene. However, images photographed from a low-light scene can hardly be used to train a NeRF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Haoyuan Wang , Xiaogang Xu , Ke Xu , Rynson WH. Lau

Contemporary Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) techniques have made notable advancements in preserving image details and enhancing contrast, achieving commendable results on specific datasets. Nevertheless, these approaches encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Xiaofeng Liu , Jiaxin Gao , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu