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Integrating visible and infrared images into one high-quality image, also known as visible and infrared image fusion, is a challenging yet critical task for many downstream vision tasks. Most existing works utilize pretrained deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Ming Chen , Yuxuan Cheng , Xinwei He , Xinyue Wang , Yan Aze , Jinhai Xiang

Low-light images are not conducive to human observation and computer vision algorithms due to their low visibility. Although many image enhancement techniques have been proposed to solve this problem, existing methods inevitably introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Zhenqiang Ying , Ge Li , Wen Gao

Infrared and visible image fusion has emerged as a prominent research area in computer vision. However, little attention has been paid to the fusion task in complex scenes, leading to sub-optimal results under interference. To fill this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xilai Li , Xiaosong Li , Tianshu Tan , Huafeng Li , Tao Ye

Although remarkable progress has been made in recent years, current multi-exposure image fusion (MEF) research is still bounded by the lack of real ground truth, objective evaluation function, and robust fusion strategy. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Renshuai Liu , Chengyang Li , Haitao Cao , Yinglin Zheng , Ming Zeng , Xuan Cheng

Exposure correction aims to enhance images suffering from improper exposure to achieve satisfactory visual effects. Despite recent progress, existing methods generally mitigate either overexposure or underexposure in input images, and they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Jin Liu , Huiyuan Fu , Chuanming Wang , Huadong Ma

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to restore natural visibility, color fidelity, and structural detail under severe illumination degradation. State-of-the-art (SOTA) LLIE techniques often rely on large models and multi-stage training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexandru Brateanu , Tingting Mu , Codruta Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti

This paper proposes a novel image contrast enhancement method based on both a noise aware shadow-up function and Retinex (retina and cortex) decomposition. Under low light conditions, images taken by digital cameras have low contrast in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Chien Cheng Chien , Yuma Kinoshita , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

Unsupervised learning based multi-scale exposure fusion (ULMEF) is efficient for fusing differently exposed low dynamic range (LDR) images into a higher quality LDR image for a high dynamic range (HDR) scene. Unlike supervised learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Chaobing Zheng , Shiqian Wu , Zhenggguo Li

The Retinex model is one of the most representative and effective methods for low-light image enhancement. However, the Retinex model does not explicitly tackle the noise problem, and shows unsatisfactory enhancing results. In recent years,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Tingting Wu , Wenna Wu , Ying Yang , Feng-Lei Fan , Tieyong Zeng

This paper proposes a novel pseudo multi-exposure image fusion method based on a single image. Multi-exposure image fusion is used to produce images without saturation regions, by using photos with different exposures. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Yuma Kinoshita , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

Face detection from low-light images is challenging due to limited photos and inevitable noise, which, to make the task even harder, are often spatially unevenly distributed. A natural solution is to borrow the idea from multi-exposure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Jinxiu Liang , Jingwen Wang , Yuhui Quan , Tianyi Chen , Jiaying Liu , Haibin Ling , Yong Xu

In this paper, we introduce a new approach for high-quality multi-exposure image fusion (MEF). We show that the fusion weights of an exposure can be encoded into a 1D lookup table (LUT), which takes pixel intensity value as input and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Ting Jiang , Chuan Wang , Xinpeng Li , Ru Li , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Low-light image enhancement aims to restore the under-exposure image captured in dark scenarios. Under such scenarios, traditional frame-based cameras may fail to capture the structure and color information due to the exposure time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xuejian Guo , Zhiqiang Tian , Yuehang Wang , Siqi Li , Yu Jiang , Shaoyi Du , Yue Gao

The shutter strategy applied to the photo-shooting process has a significant influence on the quality of the captured photograph. An improper shutter may lead to a blurry image, video discontinuity, or rolling shutter artifact. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Xinyu Zhang , Hefei Huang , Xu Jia , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

Convolutional neural networks have turned into an illustrious tool for image fusion and super-resolution. However, their excellent performance cannot work without large fixed-paired datasets; and additionally, these high-demanded ground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yuanjie Gu , Zhibo Xiao , Yinghan Guan , Haoran Dai , Cheng Liu , Liang Xue , Shouyu Wang

Image dehazing deals with the removal of undesired loss of visibility in outdoor images due to the presence of fog. Retinex is a color vision model mimicking the ability of the Human Visual System to robustly discount varying illuminations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Adrian Galdran , Aitor Alvarez-Gila , Alessandro Bria , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Marcelo Bertalmio

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

High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging aims to reproduce the wide range of brightness levels present in natural scenes, which the human visual system can perceive but conventional digital cameras often fail to capture due to their limited dynamic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Kumbha Nagaswetha

Multi-Focus Image Fusion (MFIF) is a promising image enhancement technique to obtain all-in-focus images meeting visual needs and it is a precondition of other computer vision tasks. One of the research trends of MFIF is to avoid the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yicheng Wang , Shuang Xu , Junmin Liu , Zixiang Zhao , Chunxia Zhang , Jiangshe Zhang

This paper proposes a novel multi-exposure image fusion (MEF) scheme for single-shot high dynamic range imaging with spatially varying exposures (SVE). Single-shot imaging with SVE enables us not only to produce images without color…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Chihiro Go , Yuma Kinoshita , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya