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Illumination degradation image restoration (IDIR) techniques aim to improve the visibility of degraded images and mitigate the adverse effects of deteriorated illumination. Among these algorithms, diffusion model (DM)-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chunming He , Chengyu Fang , Yulun Zhang , Tian Ye , Kai Li , Longxiang Tang , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li , Sina Farsiu

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

To enhance low-light images to normally-exposed ones is highly ill-posed, namely that the mapping relationship between them is one-to-many. Previous works based on the pixel-wise reconstruction losses and deterministic processes fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Haoliang Li , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot

Diffusion-based methods, leveraging pre-trained large models like Stable Diffusion via ControlNet, have achieved remarkable performance in several low-level vision tasks. However, Pre-Trained Diffusion-Based (PTDB) methods often sacrifice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiaogang Xu , Jian Wang , Yunfan Lu , Ruihang Chu , Ruixing Wang , Jiafei Wu , Bei Yu , Liang Lin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently become the leading method for low-light image enhancement (LLIE). However, despite significant progress, their outputs may still exhibit issues such as amplified noise, incorrect white balance, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Zhihua Wang , Yu Long , Qinghua Lin , Kai Zhang , Yazhu Zhang , Yuming Fang , Li Liu , Xiaochun Cao

High-quality imaging of dynamic scenes in extremely low-light conditions is highly challenging. Photon scarcity induces severe noise and texture loss, causing significant image degradation. Event cameras, featuring a high dynamic range (120…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Haoyue Liu , Jinghan Xu , Luxin Feng , Hanyu Zhou , Haozhi Zhao , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

Images captured under low-light conditions manifest poor visibility, lack contrast and color vividness. Compared to conventional approaches, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well in enhancing images. However, being solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Aditya Arora , Muhammad Haris , Syed Waqas Zamir , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao , Ming-Hsuan Yang

DNN-based methods have been successful in Image Signal Processor (ISP) and image enhancement (IE) tasks. However, the cost of creating training data for these tasks is considerably higher than for other tasks, making it difficult to prepare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Masakazu Yoshimura , Junji Otsuka , Radu Berdan , Takeshi Ohashi

When taking photos in dim-light environments, due to the small amount of light entering, the shot images are usually extremely dark, with a great deal of noise, and the color cannot reflect real-world color. Under this condition, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Di Zhao , Lan Ma , Songnan Li , Dahai Yu

In smartphones and compact cameras, the Image Signal Processor (ISP) transforms the RAW sensor image into a human-readable sRGB image. Most popular super-resolution methods depart from a sRGB image and upscale it further, improving its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Marcos V. Conde , Florin Vasluianu , Radu Timofte

Diffusion models generate new samples by progressively decreasing the noise from the initially provided random distribution. This inference procedure generally utilizes a trained neural network numerous times to obtain the final output,…

Capturing High Dynamic Range (HDR) scenery using 8-bit cameras often suffers from over-/underexposure, loss of fine details due to low bit-depth compression, skewed color distributions, and strong noise in dark areas. Traditional LDR image…

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Casual photography is often performed in uncontrolled lighting that can result in low quality images and degrade the performance of downstream processing. We consider the problem of estimating surface normal and reflectance maps of scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Zhihao Xia , Jason Lawrence , Supreeth Achar

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

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

This paper presents a novel network structure with illumination-aware gamma correction and complete image modelling to solve the low-light image enhancement problem. Low-light environments usually lead to less informative large-scale dark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yinglong Wang , Zhen Liu , Jianzhuang Liu , Songcen Xu , Shuaicheng Liu

Recent deep learning methods have achieved promising results in image shadow removal. However, their restored images still suffer from unsatisfactory boundary artifacts, due to the lack of degradation prior embedding and the deficiency in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Lanqing Guo , Chong Wang , Wenhan Yang , Siyu Huang , Yufei Wang , Hanspeter Pfister , Bihan Wen

Restoring low-resolution text images presents a significant challenge, as it requires maintaining both the fidelity and stylistic realism of the text in restored images. Existing text image restoration methods often fall short in hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chenglu Pan , Xiaogang Xu , Ganggui Ding , Yunke Zhang , Wenbo Li , Jiarong Xu , Qingbiao Wu

Unified image restoration is a significantly challenging task in low-level vision. Existing methods either make tailored designs for specific tasks, limiting their generalizability across various types of degradation, or rely on training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Huaqiu Li , Yong Wang , Tongwen Huang , Hailang Huang , Haoqian Wang , Xiangxiang Chu

With the advent of deep learning methods replacing the ISP in transforming sensor RAW readings into RGB images, numerous methodologies solidified into real-life applications. Equally potent is the task of inverting this process which will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Jinha Kim , Jun Jiang , Jinwei Gu