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High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging aims to reproduce the wide range of brightness levels present in natural scenes, which the human visual system can perceive but conventional digital cameras often fail to capture due to their limited dynamic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Kumbha Nagaswetha

Inconsistency in contrast enhancement can be used to expose image forgeries. In this work, we describe a new method to estimate contrast enhancement from a single image. Our method takes advantage of the nature of contrast enhancement as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Longyin Wen , Honggang Qi , Siwei Lyu

This paper proposes a new light-weight convolutional neural network (5k parameters) for non-uniform illumination image enhancement to handle color, exposure, contrast, noise and artifacts, etc., simultaneously and effectively. More…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Feifan Lv , Bo Liu , Feng Lu

Digital images are often degraded by soft effects such as lens flare, haze, shadows, and reflections, which reduce aesthetics even though the underlying pixels remain partially visible. The prevailing works address these degradations in…

Removing multiple degradations, such as haze, rain, and blur, from real-world images poses a challenging and illposed problem. Recently, unified models that can handle different degradations have been proposed and yield promising results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yongheng Zhang , Danfeng Yan , Yuanqiang Cai

Cross-contrast image translation is an important task for completing missing contrasts in clinical diagnosis. However, most existing methods learn separate translator for each pair of contrasts, which is inefficient due to many possible…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Heran Yang , Jian Sun , Liwei Yang , Zongben Xu

Histogram Equalization is a contrast enhancement technique in the image processing which uses the histogram of image. However histogram equalization is not the best method for contrast enhancement because the mean brightness of the output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Omprakash Patel , Yogendra P. S. Maravi , Sanjeev Sharma

In this work, we have presented a way to increase the contrast of an image. Our target is to find a transformation that will be image specific. We have used a fuzzy system as our transformation function. To tune the system according to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Mohimenul Kabir , Jaiaid Mobin , Ahmad Hassanat , M. Sohel Rahman

Advances in high resolution remote sensing image analysis are currently hampered by the difficulty of gathering enough annotated data for training deep learning methods, giving rise to a variety of small datasets and associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Dimitri Gominski , Valérie Gouet-Brunet , Liming Chen

Given a set of image denoisers, each having a different denoising capability, is there a provably optimal way of combining these denoisers to produce an overall better result? An answer to this question is fundamental to designing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Joon Hee Choi , Omar Elgendy , Stanley H. Chan

Restoration of images contaminated by different adverse weather conditions such as fog, snow, and rain is a challenging task due to the varying nature of the weather conditions. Most of the existing methods focus on any one particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Kotha Kartheek , Lingamaneni Gnanesh Chowdary , Snehasis Mukherjee

We propose In-Context Translation (ICT), a general learning framework to unify visual recognition (e.g., semantic segmentation), low-level image processing (e.g., denoising), and conditional image generation (e.g., edge-to-image synthesis).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Han Xue , Qianru Sun , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang , Zhiwu Huang

Recently, deep learning-based image denoising methods have achieved promising performance on test data with the same distribution as training set, where various denoising models based on synthetic or collected real-world training data have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Pengju Liu , Hongzhi Zhang , Jinghui Wang , Yuzhi Wang , Dongwei Ren , Wangmeng Zuo

Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography (CESM) is a dual-energy mammographic imaging technique that first needs intravenously administration of an iodinated contrast medium; then, it collects both a low-energy image, comparable to standard…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Aurora Rofena , Valerio Guarrasi , Marina Sarli , Claudia Lucia Piccolo , Matteo Sammarra , Bruno Beomonte Zobel , Paolo Soda

Unsupervised person re-identification (ReID) aims at learning discriminative identity features without annotations. Recently, self-supervised contrastive learning has gained increasing attention for its effectiveness in unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Hao Chen , Benoit Lagadec , Francois Bremond

The robustness of deep neural networks is usually lacking under adversarial examples, common corruptions, and distribution shifts, which becomes an important research problem in the development of deep learning. Although new deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Chang Liu , Yinpeng Dong , Wenzhao Xiang , Xiao Yang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Yuefeng Chen , Yuan He , Hui Xue , Shibao Zheng

Underwater image enhancement has been attracting much attention due to its significance in marine engineering and aquatic robotics. Numerous underwater image enhancement algorithms have been proposed in the last few years. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Chongyi Li , Chunle Guo , Wenqi Ren , Runmin Cong , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Dacheng Tao

The development of medical imaging techniques has made a significant contribution to clinical decision-making. However, the existence of suboptimal imaging quality, as indicated by irregular illumination or imbalanced intensity, presents…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Ben Fei , Yixuan Li , Weidong Yang , Hengjun Gao , Jingyi Xu , Lipeng Ma , Yatian Yang , Pinghong Zhou

In this paper, we propose a general framework to accelerate the universal histogram-based image contrast enhancement (CE) algorithms. Both spatial and gray-level selective down-sampling of digital images are adopted to decrease…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Gang Cao , Huawei Tian , Lifang Yu , Xianglin Huang , Yongbin Wang

This work proposes a method for underwater image enhancement using the principle of histogram equalization. Since underwater images have a global strong dominant colour, their colourfulness and contrast are often degraded. Before applying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Anushka Yadav , Mayank Upadhyay , Ghanapriya Singh