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Recently, Users Generated Content (UGC) videos becomes ubiquitous in our daily lives. However, due to the limitations of photographic equipments and techniques, UGC videos often contain various degradations, in which one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yunlong Dong , Xiaohong Liu , Yixuan Gao , Xunchu Zhou , Tao Tan , Guangtao Zhai

The rapid scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) elevates inference costs and compounds substantial deployment barriers. While quantization to 8 or 4 bits mitigates this, sub-3-bit methods face severe accuracy, scalability, and efficiency…

Self-supervised low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is highly appealing as it eliminates the reliance on external paired data. However, the lack of external references causes networks to struggle with decoupling entangled illumination,…

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We present Channel-wise Vector Quantization (CVQ), a novel image tokenization paradigm that replaces patch-wise tokens with channel-wise tokens. Unlike conventional vector quantization, which assigns a discrete token to each patch feature…

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Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) has long been a challenging problem in low-level vision, as insufficient illumination often leads to low contrast, detail loss, and noise. Recent studies show that deep learning-based Retinex theory can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ziqi Wang , Xu Zhang , Laibin Chang , Shi Chen , Jiaqi Ma , Huan Zhang

Vector quantization (VQ) is a technique to deterministically learn features with discrete codebook representations. It is commonly performed with a variational autoencoding model, VQ-VAE, which can be further extended to hierarchical…

Large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have gained prominence in various visual and multimodal tasks, yet the deployment of VLMs on downstream application platforms remains challenging due to their prohibitive requirements of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Huixin Sun , Runqi Wang , Yanjing Li , Xianbin Cao , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Baochang Zhang

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) task aims at improving contrast while restoring details and textures for images captured in low-light conditions. HVI color space has made significant progress in this task by enabling precise decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xin Xu , Hao Liu , Wei Liu , Wei Wang , Jiayi Wu , Kui Jiang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the illumination and visibility of dark images with lighting noise. To handle the real-world low-light images often with heavy and complex noise, some efforts have been made for joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jiahuan Ren , Zhao Zhang , Richang Hong , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang , Shuicheng Yan

Low-Light Video Enhancement (LLVE) seeks to restore dynamic or static scenes plagued by severe invisibility and noise. In this paper, we present an innovative video decomposition strategy that incorporates view-independent and…

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Current deep learning methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) typically rely on pixel-wise mapping learned from paired data. However, these methods often overlook the importance of considering degradation representations, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ziqian Shao , Wenhan Luo , Bjorn Stenger , Tae-Kyun Kim , Wei Liu , Hongdong Li

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the presence of noise, loss of detail, and poor contrast in images captured under insufficient lighting conditions. Recent methods often rely solely on…

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) achieve outstanding performance, yet their huge model size severely hinders deployment on edge devices with limited resources. As an efficient model compression technique, vector quantization (VQ) excels in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhong Wang , Zukang Xu , Xing Hu , Dawei Yang

Despite the limited availability and quantum volume of quantum computers, quantum image representation is a widely researched area. Currently developed methods use quantum entanglement to encode information about pixel positions. These…

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Although significant progress has been made in enhancing visibility, retrieving texture details, and mitigating noise in Low-Light (LL) images, the challenge persists in applying current Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Xiaohong Liu , Yulun Zhang , Guangtao Zhai , Jun Chen

In this paper we introduce learnable lattice vector quantization and demonstrate its effectiveness for learning discrete representations. Our method, termed LL-VQ-VAE, replaces the vector quantization layer in VQ-VAE with lattice-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Ahmed Khalil , Robert Piechocki , Raul Santos-Rodriguez

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly adopted as central reasoning modules for embodied agents. Existing benchmarks evaluate their capabilities under ideal, well-lit conditions, yet robust 24/7 operation demands performance under a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yohan Park , Hyunwoo Ha , Wonjun Jo , Tae-Hyun Oh

Most sRGB-based LLIE methods suffer from entangled luminance and color, while the HSV color space offers insufficient decoupling at the cost of introducing significant red and black noise artifacts. Recently, the HVI color space has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhixin Cheng , Fangwen Zhang , Xiaotian Yin , Baoqun Yin , Haodian Wang

Previous weakly-supervised object localization (WSOL) methods aim to expand activation map discriminative areas to cover the whole objects, yet neglect two inherent challenges when relying solely on image-level labels. First, the…

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