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Images captured under low-light conditions are often plagued by several challenges, including diminished contrast, increased noise, loss of fine details, and unnatural color reproduction. These factors can significantly hinder the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Miao Zhang , Yiqing Shen , Shenghui Zhong

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

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 is a challenging low-level computer vision task because after we enhance the brightness of the image, we have to deal with amplified noise, color distortion, detail loss, blurred edges, shadow blocks and halo…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Xinxu Wei , Xianshi Zhang , Shisen Wang , Yanlin Huang , Yongjie Li

With the growing demand for real-time video enhancement in live applications, existing methods often struggle to balance speed and effective exposure control, particularly under uneven lighting. We introduce RRNet (Rendering Relighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Wenlong Yang , Canran Jin , Weihang Yuan , Chao Wang , Lifeng Sun

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

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

Due to the low accuracy of object detection and recognition in many intelligent surveillance systems at nighttime, the quality of night images is crucial. Compared with the corresponding daytime image, nighttime image is characterized as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Xinyi Bai , Steffi Agino Priyanka , Hsiao-Jung Tung , Yuankai Wang

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

Images captured under low-light conditions manifest poor visibility, lack contrast and color vividness. Compared to conventional approaches, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well in enhancing images. However, being solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Aditya Arora , Muhammad Haris , Syed Waqas Zamir , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Masayuki Tanaka , Takashi Shibata , Masatoshi Okutomi

Two difficulties here make low-light image enhancement a challenging task; firstly, it needs to consider not only luminance restoration but also image contrast, image denoising and color distortion issues simultaneously. Second, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Wenchao Li , Bangshu Xiong , Qiaofeng Ou , Xiaoyun Long , Jinhao Zhu , Jiabao Chen , Shuyuan Wen

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…

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In surveillance, monitoring and tactical reconnaissance, gathering the right visual information from a dynamic environment and accurately processing such data are essential ingredients to making informed decisions which determines the…

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Image degradation caused by complex lighting conditions such as low-light and backlit scenarios is commonly encountered in real-world environments, significantly affecting image quality and downstream vision tasks. Most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ziang Wang , Xiaoqin Wang , Dingyi Wang , Qiang Li , Shushan Qiao

In nighttime conditions, high noise levels and bright illumination sources degrade image quality, making low-light image enhancement challenging. Thermal images provide complementary information, offering richer textures and structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Raman Jha , Adithya Lenka , Mani Ramanagopal , Aswin Sankaranarayanan , Kaushik Mitra

Image retrieval aims to identify visually similar images within a database using a given query image. Traditional methods typically employ both global and local features extracted from images for matching, and may also apply re-ranking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Sihe Zhang , Qingdong He , Jinlong Peng , Yuxi Li , Zhengkai Jiang , Jiafu Wu , Mingmin Chi , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang

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

The extremes of lighting (e.g. too much or too little light) usually cause many troubles for machine and human vision. Many recent works have mainly focused on under-exposure cases where images are often captured in low-light conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Hue Nguyen , Diep Tran , Khoi Nguyen , Rang Nguyen