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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

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a pervasive yet challenging problem, since: 1) low-light measurements may vary due to different imaging conditions in practice; 2) images can be enlightened subjectively according to diverse preferences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Rongkai Zhang , Lanqing Guo , Siyu Huang , Bihan Wen

For the task of low-light image enhancement, deep learning-based algorithms have demonstrated superiority and effectiveness compared to traditional methods. However, these methods, primarily based on Retinex theory, tend to overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shuang Wang , Qianwen Lu , Boxing Peng , Yihe Nie , Qingchuan Tao

In low-light conditions, capturing videos with frame-based cameras often requires long exposure times, resulting in motion blur and reduced visibility. While frame-based motion deblurring and low-light enhancement have been studied, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Taewoo Kim , Jaeseok Jeong , Hoonhee Cho , Yuhwan Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon

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 image enhancement aims to restore the visibility of images captured by visual sensors in dim environments by addressing their inherent signal degradations, such as luminance attenuation and structural corruption. Although numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yicui Shi , Yuhan Chen , Xiangfei Huang , Zhenguo Wang , Wenxuan Yu , Ying Fang

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) have recently shown promising results in low-level computer vision problems such as optical flow and disparity estimation, but still, have much room to further improve their performance. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Juan Luis Gonzalez , Muhammad Sarmad , Hyunjoo J. Lee , Munchurl Kim

Image-to-image relighting requires representations that disentangle scene properties from illumination. Recent methods rely on latent intrinsic representations but remain under-constrained and often fail on challenging materials such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xiaoyan Xing , Xiao Zhang , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers , Anand Bhattad

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

Low light conditions in aerial images adversely affect the performance of several vision based applications. There is a need for methods that can efficiently remove the low light attributes and assist in the performance of key vision tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Prateek Garg , Murari Mandal , Pratik Narang

Visual anomaly detection is a highly challenging task, often categorized as a one-class classification and segmentation problem. Recent studies have demonstrated that the student-teacher (S-T) framework effectively addresses this challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shixuan Song , Hao Chen , Shu Hu , Xin Wang , Jinrong Hu , Xi Wu

This paper presents a novel method, Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation (Zero-DCE), which formulates light enhancement as a task of image-specific curve estimation with a deep network. Our method trains a lightweight deep network, DCE-Net,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Chongyi Li , Chunle Guo , Chen Change Loy

Enhancing low-light images remains a critical challenge in computer vision, as does designing lightweight models for edge devices that can handle the computational demands of deep learning. This article introduces an extended version of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Shyang-En Weng , Cheng-Yen Hsiao , Li-Wei Lu , Yu-Shen Huang , Tzu-Han Chen , Shaou-Gang Miaou , Ricky Christanto

We introduce EnhanceGAN, an adversarial learning based model that performs automatic image enhancement. Traditional image enhancement frameworks typically involve training models in a fully-supervised manner, which require expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Yubin Deng , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

In this work, we present Eformer - Edge enhancement based transformer, a novel architecture that builds an encoder-decoder network using transformer blocks for medical image denoising. Non-overlapping window-based self-attention is used in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Achleshwar Luthra , Harsh Sulakhe , Tanish Mittal , Abhishek Iyer , Santosh Yadav

Structured illumination (SI) enhances image resolution and contrast by projecting patterned light onto a sample. In two-phase optical-sectioning SI (OS-SI), reduced acquisition time introduces residual artifacts that conventional denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Allison Davis , Yezhi Shen , Xiaoyu Ji , Fengqing Zhu

Removing noise from images is a challenging and fundamental problem in the field of computer vision. Images captured by modern cameras are inevitably degraded by noise which limits the accuracy of any quantitative measurements on those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Nikhil Verma , Deepkamal Kaur , Lydia Chau

Existing methods for enhancing dark images captured in a very low-light environment assume that the intensity level of the optimal output image is known and already included in the training set. However, this assumption often does not hold,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Evgeny Hershkovitch Neiterman , Michael Klyuchka , Gil Ben-Artzi

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the illuminance of images due to insufficient light exposure. Recently, various lightweight learning-based LLIE methods have been proposed to handle the challenges of unfavorable prevailing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yuantong Zhang , Baoxin Teng , Daiqin Yang , Zhenzhong Chen , Haichuan Ma , Gang Li , Wenpeng Ding

Deep learning has been a groundbreaking technology in various fields as well as in communications systems. In spite of the notable advancements of deep neural network (DNN) based technologies in recent years, the high computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Minhoe Kim , Woonsup Lee , Jungmin Yoon , Ohyun Jo