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Underwater images are degraded by the selective attenuation of light that distorts colours and reduces contrast. The degradation extent depends on the water type, the distance between an object and the camera, and the depth under the water…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Chau Yi Li , Riccardo Mazzon , Andrea Cavallaro

In this paper, we tackle the problem of enhancing real-world low-light images with significant noise in an unsupervised fashion. Conventional unsupervised learning-based approaches usually tackle the low-light image enhancement problem…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Wei Xiong , Ding Liu , Xiaohui Shen , Chen Fang , Jiebo Luo

With the goal of tuning up the brightness, low-light image enhancement enjoys numerous applications, such as surveillance, remote sensing and computational photography. Images captured under low-light conditions often suffer from poor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-21 Zhuqing Jiang , Chang Liu , Ya'nan Wang , Kai Li , Aidong Men , Haiying Wang , Haiyong Luo

Saliency detection methods are central to several real-world applications such as robot navigation and satellite imagery. However, the performance of existing methods deteriorate under low-light conditions because training datasets mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Kitty Varghese , Sudarshan Rajagopalan , Mohit Lamba , Kaushik Mitra

Image hazing aims to render a hazy image from a given clean one, which could be applied to a variety of practical applications such as gaming, filming, photographic filtering, and image dehazing. To generate plausible haze, we study two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Boyun Li , Yijie Lin , Xiao Liu , Peng Hu , Jiancheng Lv , Xi Peng

This report presents the results of a multi-scale wavelet based scheme for single image de-hazing and underwater image enhancement. The scheme is fast and highly localized in addition to global enhancement of hazy images. A PDE-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Uche A. Nnolim

Underwater images are often affected by light refraction and absorption, reducing visibility and interfering with subsequent applications. Existing underwater image enhancement methods primarily focus on improving visual quality while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zengxi Zhang , Zhiying Jiang , Long Ma , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Night images suffer not only from low light, but also from uneven distributions of light. Most existing night visibility enhancement methods focus mainly on enhancing low-light regions. This inevitably leads to over enhancement and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yeying Jin , Wenhan Yang , Robby T. Tan

Digital image processing involves the systematic handling of images using advanced computer algorithms, and has gained significant attention in both academic and practical fields. Image enhancement is a crucial preprocessing stage in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Rupjyoti Chutia , Dibya Jyoti Bora

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

Low-light images captured in the real world are inevitably corrupted by sensor noise. Such noise is spatially variant and highly dependent on the underlying pixel intensity, deviating from the oversimplified assumptions in conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zeyuan Chen , Yifan Jiang , Dong Liu , Zhangyang Wang

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

The extremes of lighting (e.g. too much or too little light) usually cause many troubles for machine and human vision. Many recent works have mainly focused on under-exposure cases where images are often captured in low-light conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Hue Nguyen , Diep Tran , Khoi Nguyen , Rang Nguyen

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) task tends to restore the details and visual information from corrupted low-light images. Most existing methods learn the mapping function between low/normal-light images by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Qingsen Yan , Yixu Feng , Cheng Zhang , Pei Wang , Peng Wu , Wei Dong , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

Photographers routinely compose multiple manipulated photos of the same scene (layers) into a single image, which is better than any individual photo could be alone. Similarly, 3D artists set up rendering systems to produce layered images…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Carlo Innamorati , Tobias Ritschel , Tim Weyrich , Niloy J. Mitra

Existing research based on deep learning has extensively explored the problem of daytime image dehazing. However, few studies have considered the characteristics of nighttime hazy scenes. There are two distinctions between nighttime and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xiaofeng Cong , Jie Gui , Jing Zhang , Junming Hou , Hao Shen

Several supervised networks exist that remove haze information from underwater images using paired datasets and pixel-wise loss functions. However, training these networks requires large amounts of paired data which is cumbersome, complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Praveen Kandula , A. N. Rajagopalan

This paper proposes a novel technique for single image dehazing. Most of the state-of-the-art methods for single image dehazing relies either on Dark Channel Prior (DCP) or on Color line. The proposed method combines the two different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Kushal Borkar , Snehasis Mukherjee

We present a hybrid image classifier by mode-selective image upconversion, single pixel photodetection, and deep learning, aiming at fast processing a large number of pixels. It utilizes partial Fourier transform to extract the signature…

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