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Images used in real-world applications such as image or video retrieval, outdoor surveillance, and autonomous driving suffer from poor weather conditions. When designing robust computer vision systems, removing adverse weather such as haze,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Vladimir Frants , Sos Agaian , Karen Panetta , Peter Huang

Nighttime photography is severely degraded by light pollution induced by pervasive artificial lighting in urban environments. After long-range scattering and spatial diffusion, unwanted artificial light overwhelms natural night luminance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hao Wang , Xiaolin Wu , Xi Zhang , Baoqing Sun

Removing multiple degradations, such as haze, rain, and blur, from real-world images poses a challenging and illposed problem. Recently, unified models that can handle different degradations have been proposed and yield promising results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yongheng Zhang , Danfeng Yan , Yuanqiang Cai

One of the major challenges in the field of computer vision especially for detection, segmentation, recognition, monitoring, and automated solutions, is the quality of images. Image degradation, often caused by factors such as rain, fog,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Muhammad Awais Amin , Adama Ilboudo , Abdul Samad bin Shahid , Amjad Ali , Waqas Haider Khan Bangyal

Photography during night or in dark conditions typically suffers from noise, low light and blurring issues due to the dim environment and the common use of long exposure. Although Deblurring and Low-light Image Enhancement (LLIE) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Daniel Feijoo , Juan C. Benito , Alvaro Garcia , Marcos V. Conde

In real-world scenarios, images captured often suffer from blurring, noise, and other forms of image degradation, and due to sensor limitations, people usually can only obtain low dynamic range images. To achieve high-quality images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Kangzhen Yang , Tao Hu , Kexin Dai , Genggeng Chen , Yu Cao , Wei Dong , Peng Wu , Yanning Zhang , Qingsen Yan

Image restoration is the task of recovering a clean image from a degraded version. In most cases, the degradation is spatially varying, and it requires the restoration network to both localize and restore the affected regions. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Maitreya Suin , Kuldeep Purohit , A. N. Rajagopalan

Contrast enhancement and noise removal are coupled problems for low-light image enhancement. The existing Retinex based methods do not take the coupling relation into consideration, resulting in under or over-smoothing of the enhanced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Yang Wang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jing Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Wei Zhang , Feng Wu

In real-world applications, image degeneration caused by adverse weather is always complex and changes with different weather conditions from days and seasons. Systems in real-world environments constantly encounter adverse weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 De Cheng , Yanling Ji , Dong Gong , Yan Li , Nannan Wang , Junwei Han , Dingwen Zhang

Visual images corrupted by various types and levels of degradations are commonly encountered in practical image compression. However, most existing image compression methods are tailored for clean images, therefore struggling to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Huimin Zeng , Jiacheng Li , Ziqiang Zheng , Zhiwei Xiong

Nighttime image dehazing is particularly challenging when dense haze and intense glow severely degrade or entirely obscure background information. Existing methods often struggle due to insufficient background priors and limited generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Beibei Lin , Stephen Lin , Robby Tan

The aim of image restoration is to recover high-quality images from distorted ones. However, current methods usually focus on a single task (\emph{e.g.}, denoising, deblurring or super-resolution) which cannot address the needs of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Cheng Zhang , Yu Zhu , Qingsen Yan , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

Night images suffer not only from low light, but also from uneven distributions of light. Most existing night visibility enhancement methods focus mainly on enhancing low-light regions. This inevitably leads to over enhancement and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yeying Jin , Wenhan Yang , Robby T. Tan

Many studies have been conducted so far on image restoration, the problem of restoring a clean image from its distorted version. There are many different types of distortion which affect image quality. Previous studies have focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Masanori Suganuma , Xing Liu , Takayuki Okatani

Nighttime image dehazing is a challenging task due to the presence of multiple types of adverse degrading effects including glow, haze, blurry, noise, color distortion, and so on. However, most previous studies mainly focus on daytime image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yun Liu , Zhongsheng Yan , Sixiang Chen , Tian Ye , Wenqi Ren , Erkang Chen

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

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

This paper addresses the limitations of adverse weather image restoration approaches trained on synthetic data when applied to real-world scenarios. We formulate a semi-supervised learning framework employing vision-language models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jiaqi Xu , Mengyang Wu , Xiaowei Hu , Chi-Wing Fu , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng

Extracting information related to weather and visual conditions at a given time and space is indispensable for scene awareness, which strongly impacts our behaviours, from simply walking in a city to riding a bike, driving a car, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Mohamed R. Ibrahim , James Haworth , Tao Cheng

It is highly desired but challenging to acquire high-quality photos with clear content in low-light environments. Although multi-image processing methods (using burst, dual-exposure, or multi-exposure images) have made significant progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Zhilu Zhang , Shuohao Zhang , Renlong Wu , Zifei Yan , Wangmeng Zuo