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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

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation but their practical application is often hindered by the slow sampling speed. Prior efforts of improving efficiency primarily focus on compressing models or reducing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jiuyi Xu , Qing Jin , Meida Chen , Andrew Feng , Yang Sui , Yangming Shi

The limited dynamic range of commercial compact camera sensors results in an inaccurate representation of scenes with varying illumination conditions, adversely affecting image quality and subsequently limiting the performance of underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Pranjay Shyam , Sandeep Singh Sengar , Kuk-Jin Yoon , Kyung-Soo Kim

Learning-based methods have made promising advances in low-light RAW image enhancement, while their capability to extremely dark scenes where the environmental illuminance drops as low as 0.0001 lux remains to be explored due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hai Jiang , Binhao Guan , Zhen Liu , Xiaohong Liu , Jian Yu , Zheng Liu , Songchen Han , Shuaicheng Liu

Low-light images suffer from severe noise and low illumination. Current deep learning models that are trained with real-world images have excellent noise reduction, but a ratio parameter must be chosen manually to complete the enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Qingxu Fu , Xiaoguang Di , Yu Zhang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) techniques attempt to increase the visibility of images captured in low-light scenarios. However, as a result of enhancement, a variety of image degradations such as noise and color bias are revealed.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Savvas Panagiotou , Anna S. Bosman

In this paper, we study the problem of making brighter images from dark images found in the wild. The images are dark because they are taken in dim environments. They suffer from color shifts caused by quantization and from sensor noise. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Sara Aghajanzadeh , David Forsyth

Cameras capture sensor RAW images and transform them into pleasant RGB images, suitable for the human eyes, using their integrated Image Signal Processor (ISP). Numerous low-level vision tasks operate in the RAW domain (e.g. image…

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 low-light conditions, a conventional camera imaging pipeline produces sub-optimal images that are usually dark and noisy due to a low photon count and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We present a data-driven approach that learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

Images acquired by computer vision systems under low light conditions have multiple characteristics like high noise, lousy illumination, reflectance, and bad contrast, which make object detection tasks difficult. Much work has been done to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Winston Chen , Tejas Shah

We present a simple, yet effective diffusion-based method for fine-grained, parametric control over light sources in an image. Existing relighting methods either rely on multiple input views to perform inverse rendering at inference time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Nadav Magar , Amir Hertz , Eric Tabellion , Yael Pritch , Alex Rav-Acha , Ariel Shamir , Yedid Hoshen

Recovering noise-covered details from low-light images is challenging, and the results given by previous methods leave room for improvement. Recent diffusion models show realistic and detailed image generation through a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Dewei Zhou , Zongxin Yang , Yi Yang

Vision-centric perception systems for autonomous driving have gained considerable attention recently due to their cost-effectiveness and scalability, especially compared to LiDAR-based systems. However, these systems often struggle in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jinlong Li , Baolu Li , Zhengzhong Tu , Xinyu Liu , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Runsheng Xu , Hongkai Yu

Images captured in challenging environments--such as nighttime, smoke, rainy weather, and underwater--often suffer from significant degradation, resulting in a substantial loss of visual quality. The effective restoration of these degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wenfeng Huang , Guoan Xu , Wenjing Jia , Stuart Perry , Guangwei Gao

Enhancing low-light images while maintaining natural colors is a challenging problem due to camera processing variations and limited access to photos with ground-truth lighting conditions. The latter is a crucial factor for supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wojciech Kozłowski , Michał Szachniewicz , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba

Digital imaging aims to replicate realistic scenes, but Low Dynamic Range (LDR) cameras cannot represent the wide dynamic range of real scenes, resulting in under-/overexposed images. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Dwip Dalal , Gautam Vashishtha , Prajwal Singh , Shanmuganathan Raman

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

Modern smartphone camera quality heavily relies on the image signal processor (ISP) to enhance captured raw images, utilizing carefully designed modules to produce final output images encoded in a standard color space (e.g., sRGB).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Georgy Perevozchikov , Nancy Mehta , Mahmoud Afifi , Radu Timofte

Recovering textures under shadows has remained a challenging problem due to the difficulty of inferring shadow-free scenes from shadow images. In this paper, we propose the use of diffusion models as they offer a promising approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kangfu Mei , Luis Figueroa , Zhe Lin , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Vishal M. Patel