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We present a novel dehazing and low-light enhancement method based on an illumination map that is accurately estimated by a convolutional neural network (CNN). In this paper, the illumination map is used as a component for three different…

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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…

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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

Previous raw image-based low-light image enhancement methods predominantly relied on feed-forward neural networks to learn deterministic mappings from low-light to normally-exposed images. However, they failed to capture critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yufei Wang , Yi Yu , Wenhan Yang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Haze severely degrades the visual quality of remote sensing images and hampers the performance of road extraction, vehicle detection, and traffic flow monitoring. The emerging denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) exhibits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jiamei Xiong , Xuefeng Yan , Yongzhen Wang , Wei Zhao , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Mingqiang Wei

Single-image dehazing under dense and non-uniform haze conditions remains challenging due to severe information degradation and spatial heterogeneity. Traditional diffusion-based dehazing methods struggle with insufficient generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ruicheng Zhang , Puxin Yan , Zeyu Zhang , Yicheng Chang , Hongyi Chen , Zhi Jin

Single-image haze removal is a long-standing hurdle for computer vision applications. Several works have been focused on transferring advances from image classification, detection, and segmentation to the niche of image dehazing, primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Sai Mitheran , Anushri Suresh , Nisha J. S. , Varun P. Gopi

Masked autoencoder (MAE) shows that severe augmentation during training produces robust representations for high-level tasks. This paper brings the MAE-like framework to nighttime image enhancement, demonstrating that severe augmentation…

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Previous face inverse rendering methods often require synthetic data with ground truth and/or professional equipment like a lighting stage. However, a model trained on synthetic data or using pre-defined lighting priors is typically unable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Meng Wang , Xiaojie Guo , Wenjing Dai , Jiawan Zhang

Image dehazing has drawn a significant attention in recent years. Learning-based methods usually require paired hazy and corresponding ground truth (haze-free) images for training. However, it is difficult to collect real-world image pairs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ruikun Zhang , Hao Yang , Yan Yang , Ying Fu , Liyuan Pan

Images captured in hazy weather generally suffer from quality degradation, and many dehazing methods have been developed to solve this problem. However, single image dehazing problem is still challenging due to its ill-posed nature. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Pengyang Ling , Huaian Chen , Xiao Tan , Yimeng Shan , Yi Jin

Despite the recent progress in image dehazing, several problems remain largely unsolved such as robustness for varying scenes, the visual quality of reconstructed images, and effectiveness and flexibility for applications. To tackle these…

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The quality of images captured in outdoor environments can be affected by poor weather conditions such as fog, dust, and atmospheric scattering of other particles. This problem can bring extra challenges to high-level computer vision tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Jiaxi He , Frank Z. Xing , Ran Yang , Cishen Zhang

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…

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Computer vision is increasingly used in areas such as unmanned vehicles, surveillance systems and remote sensing. However, in foggy scenarios, image degradation leads to loss of target details, which seriously affects the accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Zhenjun Zhang , Lijun Tang , Hongjin Wang , Lilian Zhang , Yunze He , Yaonan Wang

Single image dehazing is an ill-posed problem that has recently drawn important attention. Despite the significant increase in interest shown for dehazing over the past few years, the validation of the dehazing methods remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Codruta O. Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti , Mateu Sbert , Radu Timofte

Haze limits the visibility of outdoor images, due to the existence of fog, smoke and dust in the atmosphere. Image dehazing methods try to recover haze-free image by removing the effect of haze from a given input image. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Sanchayan Santra , Ranjan Mondal , Pranoy Panda , Nishant Mohanty , Shubham Bhuyan

Aiming at the existing single image haze removal algorithms, which are based on prior knowledge and assumptions, subject to many limitations in practical applications, and could suffer from noise and halo amplification. An end-to-end system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yuwen Li , Chaobing Zheng , Shiqian Wu , Wangming Xu

Recent advances in diffusion models have enabled the creation of deceptively real images, posing significant security risks when misused. In this study, we empirically show that different timesteps of DDIM inversion reveal varying subtle…

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Illumination effects in images, specifically cast shadows and shading, have been shown to decrease the performance of deep neural networks on a large number of vision-based detection, recognition and segmentation tasks in urban driving…

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