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This paper introduces a novel deep learning framework for low-light image enhancement, named the Encoder-Decoder Network with Illumination Guidance (EDNIG). Building upon the U-Net architecture, EDNIG integrates an illumination map, derived…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Le-Anh Tran , Chung Nguyen Tran , Ngoc-Luu Nguyen , Nhan Cach Dang , Jordi Carrabina , David Castells-Rufas , Minh Son Nguyen

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) is crucial for improving both human perception and computer vision tasks. This paper addresses two challenges in zero-reference LLIE: obtaining perceptually 'good' images using the Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito

In low-light conditions, a conventional camera imaging pipeline produces sub-optimal images that are usually dark and noisy due to a low photon count and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We present a data-driven approach that learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

Low-shot visual learning---the ability to recognize novel object categories from very few examples---is a hallmark of human visual intelligence. Existing machine learning approaches fail to generalize in the same way. To make progress on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Bharath Hariharan , Ross Girshick

Most recent methods of deep image enhancement can be generally classified into two types: decompose-and-enhance and illumination estimation-centric. The former is usually less efficient, and the latter is constrained by a strong assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Xiaomeng Wu , Yongqing Sun , Akisato Kimura

Low-light image enhancement remains an open problem, and the new wave of artificial intelligence is at the center of this problem. This work describes the use of genetic algorithms for optimizing analytical models that can improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Axel Martinez , Emilio Hernandez , Matthieu Olague , Gustavo Olague

Surveillance scenarios are prone to several problems since they usually involve low-resolution footage, and there is no control of how far the subjects may be from the camera in the first place. This situation is suitable for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Angelo G. Menezes

Pre-trained models with large-scale training data, such as CLIP and Stable Diffusion, have demonstrated remarkable performance in various high-level computer vision tasks such as image understanding and generation from language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xiaogang Xu , Shu Kong , Tao Hu , Zhe Liu , Hujun Bao

Decreased visibility, intensive noise, and biased color are the common problems existing in low-light images. These visual disturbances further reduce the performance of high-level vision tasks, such as object detection, and tracking. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Hao Chen , Zhi Jin

Low-light image enhancement strives to improve the contrast, adjust the visibility, and restore the distortion in color and texture. Existing methods usually pay more attention to improving the visibility and contrast via increasing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Huake Wang , Xiaoyang Yan , Xingsong Hou , Junhui Li , Yujie Dun , Kaibing Zhang

Low-light images often suffer from limited visibility and multiple types of degradation, rendering low-light image enhancement (LIE) a non-trivial task. Some endeavors have been recently made to enhance low-light images using convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zixiang Wei , Yiting Wang , Lichao Sun , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Lin Wang

Low-light images suffer from complex degradation, and existing enhancement methods often encode all degradation factors within a single latent space. This leads to highly entangled features and strong black-box characteristics, making the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Shuangli Du , Siming Yan , Zhenghao Shi , Zhenzhen You , Lu Sun

Recognition of low resolution face images is a challenging problem in many practical face recognition systems. Methods have been proposed in the face recognition literature for the problem which assume that the probe is low resolution, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Sumit Shekhar , Vishal M. Patel , Rama Chellappa

We propose a novel unsupervised backlit image enhancement method, abbreviated as CLIP-LIT, by exploring the potential of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) for pixel-level image enhancement. We show that the open-world CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Zhexin Liang , Chongyi Li , Shangchen Zhou , Ruicheng Feng , Chen Change Loy

In multimedia application scenarios, images captured under low-illumination conditions often lead to lower accuracy in visual perception tasks compared to those taken in well-lit environments. To tackle this challenge, we propose AMIEOD, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xiaochen Huang , Honggang Chen , Weicheng Zhang , Xiaobo Dai , Yongyi Li , Linbo Qing , Xiaohai He

In digital imaging, enhancing visual content in poorly lit environments is a significant challenge, as images often suffer from inadequate brightness, hidden details, and an overall reduction in quality. This issue is especially critical in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Farzaneh Koohestani , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Low light image enhancement is an important challenge for the development of robust computer vision algorithms. The machine learning approaches to this have been either unsupervised, supervised based on paired dataset or supervised based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Harshana Weligampola , Gihan Jayatilaka , Suren Sritharan , Roshan Godaliyadda , Parakrama Ekanayaka , Roshan Ragel , Vijitha Herath

High-quality photography in extreme low-light conditions is challenging but impactful for digital cameras. With advanced computing hardware, traditional camera image signal processor (ISP) algorithms are gradually being replaced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Amber Yijia Zheng , Yu Zhang , Jun Hu , Raymond A. Yeh , Chen Chen

Extremely low-light text images are common in natural scenes, making scene text detection and recognition challenging. One solution is to enhance these images using low-light image enhancement methods before text extraction. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Che-Tsung Lin , Chun Chet Ng , Zhi Qin Tan , Wan Jun Nah , Xinyu Wang , Jie Long Kew , Pohao Hsu , Shang Hong Lai , Chee Seng Chan , Christopher Zach

Images captured in low-light environment often suffer from complex degradation. Simply adjusting light would inevitably result in burst of hidden noise and color distortion. To seek results with satisfied lighting, cleanliness, and realism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Qiming Hu , Xiaojie Guo