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Estimating scene lighting from a single image or video remains a longstanding challenge in computer vision and graphics. Learning-based approaches are constrained by the scarcity of ground-truth HDR environment maps, which are expensive to…

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Low-light imaging on mobile devices is typically challenging due to insufficient incident light coming through the relatively small aperture, resulting in a low signal-to-noise ratio. Most of the previous works on low-light image processing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Yucheng Lu , Seung-Won Jung

Localizing text in low-light environments is challenging due to visual degradations. Although a straightforward solution involves a two-stage pipeline with low-light image enhancement (LLE) as the initial step followed by detector, LLE is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Chengpei Xu , Hao Fu , Long Ma , Wenjing Jia , Chengqi Zhang , Feng Xia , Xiaoyu Ai , Binghao Li , Wenjie Zhang

We focus on a very challenging task: imaging at nighttime dynamic scenes. Most previous methods rely on the low-light enhancement of a conventional RGB camera. However, they would inevitably face a dilemma between the long exposure time of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Haoyue Liu , Shihan Peng , Lin Zhu , Yi Chang , Hanyu Zhou , Luxin Yan

Low-Light Video Enhancement (LLVE) has received considerable attention in recent years. One of the critical requirements of LLVE is inter-frame brightness consistency, which is essential for maintaining the temporal coherence of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Wenhao Li , Guangyang Wu , Wenyi Wang , Peiran Ren , Xiaohong Liu

Occupancy prediction aims to estimate the 3D spatial distribution of occupied regions along with their corresponding semantic labels. Existing vision-based methods perform well on daytime benchmarks but struggle in nighttime scenarios due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yuan Wu , Zhiqiang Yan , Yigong Zhang , Xiang Li , Jian Yang

Diffusion model-based low-light image enhancement methods rely heavily on paired training data, leading to limited extensive application. Meanwhile, existing unsupervised methods lack effective bridging capabilities for unknown degradation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jinhong He , Minglong Xue , Aoxiang Ning , Chengyun Song

In this paper, we rethink the low-light image enhancement task and propose a physically explainable and generative diffusion model for low-light image enhancement, termed as Diff-Retinex. We aim to integrate the advantages of the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Xunpeng Yi , Han Xu , Hao Zhang , Linfeng Tang , Jiayi Ma

Prior-based methods for low-light image enhancement often face challenges in extracting available prior information from dim images. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a simple yet effective Retinex model with the proposed edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Chaoyan Huang , Zhongming Wu , Tieyong Zeng

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

This paper proposes a new framework for low-light image enhancement by simultaneously conducting the appearance as well as structure modeling. It employs the structural feature to guide the appearance enhancement, leading to sharp and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Xiaogang Xu , Ruixing Wang , Jiangbo Lu

Current Low-light Image Enhancement (LLIE) techniques predominantly rely on either direct Low-Light (LL) to Normal-Light (NL) mappings or guidance from semantic features or illumination maps. Nonetheless, the intrinsic ill-posedness of LLIE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Wei Dong , Yan Min , Han Zhou , Jun Chen

We describe a novel integrated algorithm for real-time enhancement of video acquired under challenging lighting conditions. Such conditions include low lighting, haze, and high dynamic range situations. The algorithm automatically detects…

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In this paper, we propose a diffusion-based unsupervised framework that incorporates physically explainable Retinex theory with diffusion models for low-light image enhancement, named LightenDiffusion. Specifically, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Hai Jiang , Ao Luo , Xiaohong Liu , Songchen Han , Shuaicheng Liu

Recent advances in generative image restoration (IR) have demonstrated impressive results. However, these methods are hindered by their substantial size and computational demands, rendering them unsuitable for deployment on edge devices.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Elad Cohen , Idan Achituve , Idit Diamant , Arnon Netzer , Hai Victor Habi

Accurate text recognition in low-light environments is essential for intelligent systems in applications ranging from autonomous vehicles to smart surveillance. However, challenges such as poor illumination and noise interference remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xuanshuo Fu , Lei Kang , Ernest Valveny , Dimosthenis Karatzas , Javier Vazquez-Corral

This paper introduces a novel lightweight computational framework for enhancing images under low-light conditions, utilizing advanced machine learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional enhancement techniques often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhuoheng Li , Yuheng Pan , Houcheng Yu , Zhiheng Zhang

In this paper, we present Self-DACE++, an improved unsupervised and lightweight framework for Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE), building upon our previous Self-Reference Deep Adaptive Curve Estimation (Self-DACE). To better address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jianyu Wen , Jun Xie , Feng Chen , Zhepeng Wang , Chenhao Wu , Tong Zhang , Yixuan Yu , Piotr Swierczynski

Deep learning-based low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a task of leveraging deep neural networks to enhance the image illumination while keeping the image content unchanged. From the perspective of training data, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Zhao Zhang , Suiyi Zhao , Xiaojie Jin , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang , Shuicheng Yan , Meng Wang

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of low-light image and video enhancement, addressing two primary challenges in the field. The first challenge is the prevalence of mixed over-/under-exposed images, which are not adequately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Shen Zheng , Yiling Ma , Jinqian Pan , Changjie Lu , Gaurav Gupta