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Images captured in weak illumination conditions could seriously degrade the image quality. Solving a series of degradation of low-light images can effectively improve the visual quality of images and the performance of high-level visual…

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Deep learning based methods have dominated super-resolution (SR) field due to their remarkable performance in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. Most of these methods assume that the blur kernel during downsampling is predefined/known…

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Low light images suffer from severe noise, low brightness, low contrast, etc. In previous researches, many image enhancement methods have been proposed, but few methods can deal with these problems simultaneously. In this paper, to solve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Bin Zhang , Ruihang Ji , Chunhui Wang

This paper aims to recover the intrinsic reflectance layer and shading layer given a single image. Though this intrinsic image decomposition problem has been studied for decades, it remains a significant challenge in cases of complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xiaodong Wang , Zijun He , Xin Yuan

Image degradation caused by complex lighting conditions such as low-light and backlit scenarios is commonly encountered in real-world environments, significantly affecting image quality and downstream vision tasks. Most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ziang Wang , Xiaoqin Wang , Dingyi Wang , Qiang Li , Shushan Qiao

The reflection superposition phenomenon is complex and widely distributed in the real world, which derives various simplified linear and nonlinear formulations of the problem. In this paper, based on the investigation of the weaknesses of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Qiming Hu , Xiaojie Guo

The following three factors restrict the application of existing low-light image enhancement methods: unpredictable brightness degradation and noise, inherent gap between metric-favorable and visual-friendly versions, and the limited paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Shuzhou Yang , Moxuan Ding , Yanmin Wu , Zihan Li , Jian Zhang

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for medical imaging via physics-informed unsupervised learning. Classical INRs optimize an entire network from scratch for each subject, leading to inefficient…

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High-resolution medical images can provide more detailed information for better diagnosis. Conventional medical image super-resolution relies on a single task which first performs the extraction of the features and then upscaling based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Xiaoyan Kui , Zexin Ji , Beiji Zou , Yang Li , Yulan Dai , Liming Chen , Pierre Vera , Su Ruan

Retinex theory is developed mainly to decompose an image into the illumination and reflectance components by analyzing local image derivatives. In this theory, larger derivatives are attributed to the changes in reflectance, while smaller…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Jun Xu , Yingkun Hou , Dongwei Ren , Li Liu , Fan Zhu , Mengyang Yu , Haoqian Wang , Ling Shao

Many learning-based low-light image enhancement (LLIE) algorithms are based on the Retinex theory. However, the Retinex-based decomposition techniques in such models introduce corruptions which limit their enhancement performance. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhihao Zheng , Mooi Choo Chuah

Prior-based methods for low-light image enhancement often face challenges in extracting available prior information from dim images. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a simple yet effective Retinex model with the proposed edge…

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Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has been widely used in many applications that need material decomposition. Image-domain methods directly decompose material images from high- and low-energy attenuation images, and thus, are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Zhipeng Li , Yong Long , Il Yong Chun

Intrinsic image decomposition is the process of recovering the image formation components (reflectance and shading) from an image. Previous methods employ either explicit priors to constrain the problem or implicit constraints as formulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Partha Das , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

The visual quality of photographs taken under imperfect lightness conditions can be degenerated by multiple factors, e.g., low lightness, imaging noise, color distortion and so on. Current low-light image enhancement models focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Shijie Hao , Xu Han , Yanrong Guo , Meng Wang

The acquisition of paired low-light video sequences remains challenging due to issues associated with poor temporal consistency, varying illumination characteristics and camera parameters. This has driven significant interest in…

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This report describes the experimental results obtained using a proposed variational Retinex algorithm for controlled illumination correction. Two colour restoration and enhancement schemes of the algorithm are presented for drastically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-07 U. A. Nnolim

Recent advances in differentiable rendering have enabled high-quality reconstruction of 3D scenes from multi-view images. Most methods rely on simple rendering algorithms: pre-filtered direct lighting or learned representations of…

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High-resolution (HR) image harmonization is of great significance in real-world applications such as image synthesis and image editing. However, due to the high memory costs, existing dense pixel-to-pixel harmonization methods are mainly…

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