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Low light images captured in a non-uniform illumination environment usually are degraded with the scene depth and the corresponding environment lights. This degradation results in severe object information loss in the degraded image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Xin Xu , Shiqin Wang , Zheng Wang , Xiaolong Zhang , Ruimin Hu

Images taken under low-light conditions tend to suffer from poor visibility, which can decrease image quality and even reduce the performance of the downstream tasks. It is hard for a CNN-based method to learn generalized features that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yi Huang , Xiaoguang Tu , Gui Fu , Tingting Liu , Bokai Liu , Ming Yang , Ziliang Feng

This paper aims to recover the intrinsic reflectance layer and shading layer given a single image. Though this intrinsic image decomposition problem has been studied for decades, it remains a significant challenge in cases of complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xiaodong Wang , Zijun He , Xin Yuan

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the visibility of degraded images to better align with human visual perception. While diffusion-based methods have shown promising performance due to their strong generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jinhong He , Minglong Xue , Zhipu Liu , Mingliang Zhou , Aoxiang Ning , Palaiahnakote Shivakumara

In recent years, significant progress has been made in image recognition technology based on deep neural networks. However, improving recognition performance under low-light conditions remains a significant challenge. This study addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Seitaro Ono , Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito , Masato Tsukada

There has long been a belief that high-level semantics learning can benefit various downstream computer vision tasks. However, in the low-light image enhancement (LLIE) community, existing methods learn a brutal mapping between low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jialang Lu , Huayu Zhao , Huiyu Zhai , Xingxing Yang , Shini Han

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Chen Chen , Qifeng Chen , Jia Xu , Vladlen Koltun

We propose a data-driven approach for intrinsic image decomposition, which is the process of inferring the confounding factors of reflectance and shading in an image. We pose this as a two-stage learning problem. First, we train a model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Tinghui Zhou , Philipp Krähenbühl , Alexei A. Efros

Images obtained in real-world low-light conditions are not only low in brightness, but they also suffer from many other types of degradation, such as color bias, unknown noise, detail loss and halo artifacts. In this paper, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-01 Xinxu Wei , Xianshi Zhang , Shisen Wang , Cheng Cheng , Yanlin Huang , Kaifu Yang , Yongjie Li

Enhancing a low-light noisy RAW image into a well-exposed and clean sRGB image is a significant challenge for modern digital cameras. Prior approaches have difficulties in recovering fine-grained details and true colors of the scene under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Qiang Wen , Zhefan Rao , Yazhou Xing , Qifeng Chen

Low-light image enhancement task is essential yet challenging as it is ill-posed intrinsically. Previous arts mainly focus on the low-light images captured in the visible spectrum using pixel-wise loss, which limits the capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Shulin Tian , Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Photon-counting CT (PCCT) offers improved diagnostic performance through better spatial and energy resolution, but developing high-quality image reconstruction methods that can deal with these large datasets is challenging. Model-based…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Alma Eguizabal , Ozan Öktem , Mats U. Persson

Images captured under low-light conditions present significant limitations in many applications, as poor lighting can obscure details, reduce contrast, and hide noise. Removing the illumination effects and enhancing the quality of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Daniel Torres , Joan Duran , Julia Navarro , Catalina Sbert

Image captured under low-light conditions presents unpleasing artifacts, which debilitate the performance of feature extraction for many upstream visual tasks. Low-light image enhancement aims at improving brightness and contrast, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Zhijian Luo , Jiahui Tang , Yueen Hou , Zihan Huang , Yanzeng Gao

Capturing images under extremely low-light conditions poses significant challenges for the standard camera pipeline. Images become too dark and too noisy, which makes traditional enhancement techniques almost impossible to apply. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ahmet Serdar Karadeniz , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

Deep learning-based image compression has made great progresses recently. However, many leading schemes use serial context-adaptive entropy model to improve the rate-distortion (R-D) performance, which is very slow. In addition, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-07 Haisheng Fu , Feng Liang , Jie Liang , Yongqiang Wang , Guohe Zhang , Jingning Han

It has long been considered a significant problem to improve the visual quality of lossy image and video compression. Recent advances in computing power together with the availability of large training data sets has increased interest in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Aaditya Prakash , Nick Moran , Solomon Garber , Antonella DiLillo , James Storer

We propose an effective Structural Prior guided Generative Adversarial Transformer (SPGAT) to solve low-light image enhancement. Our SPGAT mainly contains a generator with two discriminators and a structural prior estimator (SPE). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Cong Wang , Jinshan Pan , Xiao-Ming Wu

Intrinsic decomposition from a single image is a highly challenging task, due to its inherent ambiguity and the scarcity of training data. In contrast to traditional fully supervised learning approaches, in this paper we propose learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Michael Janner , Jiajun Wu , Tejas D. Kulkarni , Ilker Yildirim , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Challenging illumination conditions (low-light, under-exposure and over-exposure) in the real world not only cast an unpleasant visual appearance but also taint the computer vision tasks. After camera captures the raw-RGB data, it renders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Ziteng Cui , Kunchang Li , Lin Gu , Shenghan Su , Peng Gao , Zhengkai Jiang , Yu Qiao , Tatsuya Harada