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This paper proposes a new light-weight convolutional neural network (5k parameters) for non-uniform illumination image enhancement to handle color, exposure, contrast, noise and artifacts, etc., simultaneously and effectively. More…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Feifan Lv , Bo Liu , Feng Lu

Shadow removal is an essential task in computer vision and computer graphics. Recent shadow removal approaches all train convolutional neural networks (CNN) on real paired shadow/shadow-free or shadow/shadow-free/mask image datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Naoto Inoue , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Binary grid mask representation is broadly used in instance segmentation. A representative instantiation is Mask R-CNN which predicts masks on a $28\times 28$ binary grid. Generally, a low-resolution grid is not sufficient to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Xing Shen , Jirui Yang , Chunbo Wei , Bing Deng , Jianqiang Huang , Xiansheng Hua , Xiaoliang Cheng , Kewei Liang

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

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

Haze usually leads to deteriorated images with low contrast, color shift and structural distortion. We observe that many deep learning based models exhibit exceptional performance on removing homogeneous haze, but they usually fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Yangyi Liu , Jun Chen

Image dehazing, a pivotal task in low-level vision, aims to restore the visibility and detail from hazy images. Many deep learning methods with powerful representation learning capability demonstrate advanced performance on non-homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Wei Dong , Han Zhou , Ruiyi Wang , Xiaohong Liu , Guangtao Zhai , Jun Chen

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

Many existing methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) based on Retinex theory ignore important factors that affect the validity of this theory in digital imaging, such as noise, quantization error, non-linearity, and dynamic range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Shangquan Sun , Wenqi Ren , Jingyang Peng , Fenglong Song , Xiaochun Cao

Shadow removal from a single image is generally still an open problem. Most existing learning-based methods use supervised learning and require a large number of paired images (shadow and corresponding non-shadow images) for training. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yeying Jin , Aashish Sharma , Robby T. Tan

The key to shadow removal is recovering the contents of the shadow regions with the guidance of the non-shadow regions. Due to the inadequate long-range modeling, the CNN-based approaches cannot thoroughly investigate the information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Qianhao Yu , Naishan Zheng , Jie Huang , Feng Zhao

Low-light image enhancement, particularly in cross-domain tasks such as mapping from the raw domain to the sRGB domain, remains a significant challenge. Many deep learning-based methods have been developed to address this issue and have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Xianmin Chen , Longfei Han , Peiliang Huang , Xiaoxu Feng , Dingwen Zhang , Junwei Han

This paper proposes a self-supervised low light image enhancement method based on deep learning, which can improve the image contrast and reduce noise at the same time to avoid the blur caused by pre-/post-denoising. The method contains two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Bin Zhang , Qingyan Li , Shiyu Yan , Chunhui Wang

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

Under challenging light conditions, captured images often suffer from various degradations, leading to a decline in the performance of vision-based applications. Although numerous methods have been proposed to enhance image quality, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jing Tao , You Li , Banglei Guan , Yang Shang , Qifeng Yu

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

Image relighting has emerged as a problem of significant research interest inspired by augmented reality applications. Physics-based traditional methods, as well as black box deep learning models, have been developed. The existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Amirsaeed Yazdani , Tiantong Guo , Vishal Monga

This work aims to improve the applicability of diffusion models in realistic image restoration. Specifically, we enhance the diffusion model in several aspects such as network architecture, noise level, denoising steps, training image size,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Video shadow detection confronts two entwined difficulties: distinguishing shadows from complex backgrounds and modeling dynamic shadow deformations under varying illumination. To address shadow-background ambiguity, we leverage linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhicheng Li , Kunyang Sun , Rui Yao , Hancheng Zhu , Fuyuan Hu , Jiaqi Zhao , Zhiwen Shao , Yong Zhou

Detecting objects in low-light scenarios presents a persistent challenge, as detectors trained on well-lit data exhibit significant performance degradation on low-light data due to low visibility. Previous methods mitigate this issue by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhipeng Du , Miaojing Shi , Jiankang Deng