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A low-light image enhancement is a highly demanded image processing technique, especially for consumer digital cameras and cameras on mobile phones. In this paper, a gradient-based low-light image enhancement algorithm is proposed. The key…

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Photo enhancement plays a crucial role in augmenting the visual aesthetics of a photograph. In recent years, photo enhancement methods have either focused on enhancement performance, producing powerful models that cannot be deployed on edge…

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The advent of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has driven remarkable progress in low-light image enhancement (LLIE), with diverse architectures (e.g., CNNs and Transformers) and color spaces (e.g., sRGB, HSV, HVI) yielding impressive results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Kangbiao Shi , Yixu Feng , Tao Hu , Yu Cao , Peng Wu , Yijin Liang , Yanning Zhang , Qingsen Yan

Event camera has recently received much attention for low-light image enhancement (LIE) thanks to their distinct advantages, such as high dynamic range. However, current research is prohibitively restricted by the lack of large-scale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Guoqiang Liang , Kanghao Chen , Hangyu Li , Yunfan Lu , Lin Wang

Poor image quality in low light images may result in a reduced number of feature matching between images. In this paper, we investigate the performance of feature extraction algorithms in low light environments. To find an optimal setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Pranjay Shyam , Antyanta Bangunharcana , Kyung-Soo Kim

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) restores the color and brightness of underexposed images. Supervised methods suffer from high costs in collecting low/normal-light image pairs. Unsupervised methods invest substantial effort in crafting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Yinghao Song , Zhiyuan Cao , Wanhong Xiang , Sifan Long , Bo Yang , Hongwei Ge , Yanchun Liang , Chunguo Wu

Single-shot low-light image enhancement (SLLIE) remains challenging due to the limited availability of diverse, real-world paired datasets. To bridge this gap, we introduce the Low-Light Smartphone Dataset (LSD), a large-scale,…

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Imaging in low light is challenging due to low photon count and low SNR. Short-exposure images suffer from noise, while long exposure can induce blur and is often impractical. A variety of denoising, deblurring, and enhancement techniques…

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Image-based lighting (IBL) is a widely used technique that renders objects using a high dynamic range image or environment map. However, aggregating the irradiance at the object's surface is computationally expensive, in particular for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shizhan Zhu , Shunsuke Saito , Aljaz Bozic , Carlos Aliaga , Trevor Darrell , Christoph Lassner

Human vision relies heavily on available ambient light to perceive objects. Low-light scenes pose two distinct challenges: information loss due to insufficient illumination and undesirable brightness shifts. Low-light image enhancement…

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Limited illumination often causes severe physical noise and detail degradation in images. Existing Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) methods frequently treat the enhancement process as a blind black-box mapping, overlooking the physical…

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Self-supervised low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is highly appealing as it eliminates the reliance on external paired data. However, the lack of external references causes networks to struggle with decoupling entangled illumination,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Peiyuan He , Hainuo Wang , Hengxing Liu , Mingjia Li , Xiaojie Guo

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

Light field (LF) images containing information for multiple views have numerous applications, which can be severely affected by low-light imaging. Recent learning-based methods for low-light enhancement have some disadvantages, such as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Shansi Zhang , Nan Meng , Edmund Y. Lam

Event-based low-light image enhancement (LIE) methods mainly focus on incorporating high dynamic range (HDR) information from events while overlooking the essential global illumination in images and the inherent noise sensitivity of event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Senyan Xu , Zhijing Sun , Kean Liu , Xin Lu , Ruixuan Jiang , Mingyang Huang , Xueyang Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha

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…

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On-orbit service is important for maintaining the sustainability of space environment. Space-based visible camera is an economical and lightweight sensor for situation awareness during on-orbit service. However, it can be easily affected by…

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Nighttime photography encounters escalating challenges in extremely low-light conditions, primarily attributable to the ultra-low signal-to-noise ratio. For real-world deployment, a practical solution must not only produce visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Jiazhang Zheng , Lei Li , Qiuping Liao , Cheng Li , Li Li , Yangxing Liu

Low-light image enhancement techniques have significantly progressed, but unstable image quality recovery and unsatisfactory visual perception are still significant challenges. To solve these problems, we propose a novel and robust…

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