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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,…

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Maritime images captured under low-light imaging condition easily suffer from low visibility and unexpected noise, leading to negative effects on maritime traffic supervision and management. To promote imaging performance, it is necessary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Yu Guo , Yuxu Lu , Ryan Wen Liu , Meifang Yang , Kwok Tai Chui

RAW images have shown superior performance than sRGB images in many image processing tasks, especially for low-light image enhancement. However, most existing methods for RAW-based low-light enhancement usually sequentially process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Jianan Wang , Yang Hong , Hesong Li , Tao Wang , Songrong Liu , Ying Fu

The advent of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has driven remarkable progress in low-light image enhancement (LLIE), with diverse architectures (e.g., CNNs and Transformers) and color spaces (e.g., sRGB, HSV, HVI) yielding impressive results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Kangbiao Shi , Yixu Feng , Tao Hu , Yu Cao , Peng Wu , Yijin Liang , Yanning Zhang , Qingsen Yan

The deep learning (DL)-based methods of low-level tasks have many advantages over the traditional camera in terms of hardware prospects, error accumulation and imaging effects. Recently, the application of deep learning to replace the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hongyang Chen , Kaisheng Ma

Two difficulties here make low-light image enhancement a challenging task; firstly, it needs to consider not only luminance restoration but also image contrast, image denoising and color distortion issues simultaneously. Second, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Wenchao Li , Bangshu Xiong , Qiaofeng Ou , Xiaoyun Long , Jinhao Zhu , Jiabao Chen , Shuyuan Wen

Deep image prior (DIP) proposed in recent research has revealed the inherent trait of convolutional neural networks (CNN) for capturing substantial low-level image statistics priors. This framework efficiently addresses the inverse problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Ziyu Shu , Zhixin Pan

We present IllumFlow, a novel framework that synergizes conditional Rectified Flow (CRF) with Retinex theory for low-light image enhancement (LLIE). Our model addresses low-light enhancement through separate optimization of illumination and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Wenyang Wei , Yang yang , Xixi Jia , Xiangchu Feng , Weiwei Wang , Renzhen Wang

Frame-based cameras with extended exposure times often produce perceptible visual blurring and information loss between frames, significantly degrading video quality. To address this challenge, we introduce EVDI++, a unified self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chi Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Chenxu Jiang , Gui-Song Xia , Lei Yu

Under challenging light conditions, captured images often suffer from various degradations, leading to a decline in the performance of vision-based applications. Although numerous methods have been proposed to enhance image quality, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jing Tao , You Li , Banglei Guan , Yang Shang , Qifeng Yu

Advances in endoscopy use in surgeries face challenges like inadequate lighting. Deep learning, notably the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM), holds promise for low-light image enhancement in the medical field. However, DDPMs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Tong Chen , Qingcheng Lyu , Long Bai , Erjian Guo , Huxin Gao , Xiaoxiao Yang , Hongliang Ren , Luping Zhou

Low-light image enhancement techniques have significantly progressed, but unstable image quality recovery and unsatisfactory visual perception are still significant challenges. To solve these problems, we propose a novel and robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Minglong Xue , Jinhong He , Wenhai Wang , Mingliang Zhou

We introduce LTCF-Net, a novel network architecture designed for enhancing low-light images. Unlike Retinex-based methods, our approach utilizes two color spaces - LAB and YUV - to efficiently separate and process color information, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Gaojing Zhang , Jinglun Feng

In various learning-based image restoration tasks, such as image denoising and image super-resolution, the degradation representations were widely used to model the degradation process and handle complicated degradation patterns. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Dasong Li , Yi Zhang , Ka Chun Cheung , Xiaogang Wang , Hongwei Qin , Hongsheng Li

Night photography typically suffers from both low light and blurring issues due to the dim environment and the common use of long exposure. While existing light enhancement and deblurring methods could deal with each problem individually, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Shangchen Zhou , Chongyi Li , Chen Change Loy

The task of recalibrating the illumination settings in an image to a target configuration is known as relighting. Relighting techniques have potential applications in digital photography, gaming industry and in augmented reality. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Densen Puthussery , Hrishikesh P. S. , Melvin Kuriakose , Jiji C.

The task of extracting intrinsic components, such as reflectance and shading, from neural radiance fields is of growing interest. However, current methods largely focus on synthetic scenes and isolated objects, overlooking the complexities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yixiong Yang , Shilin Hu , Haoyu Wu , Ramon Baldrich , Dimitris Samaras , Maria Vanrell

Existing low-light image enhancement methods are difficult to fit the complex nonlinear relationship between normal and low-light images due to uneven illumination and noise effects. The recently proposed Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Aoxiang Ning , Minglong Xue , Jinhong He , Chengyun Song

Imaging in low-light environments is challenging due to reduced scene radiance, which leads to elevated sensor noise and reduced color saturation. Most learning-based low-light enhancement methods rely on paired training data captured under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Maria Pilligua , David Serrano-Lozano , Pai Peng , Ramon Baldrich , Michael S. Brown , Javier Vazquez-Corral

Capturing images under extremely low-light conditions poses significant challenges for the standard camera pipeline. Images become too dark and too noisy, which makes traditional image enhancement techniques almost impossible to apply. Very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Ahmet Serdar Karadeniz , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem