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Low-light image enhancement is a crucial preprocessing task for some complex vision tasks. Target detection, image segmentation, and image recognition outcomes are all directly impacted by the impact of image enhancement. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mengfei Wu , Xucheng Xue , Taiji Lan , Xinwei Xu

Traditional Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) methods primarily focus on uniform brightness adjustment, often neglecting instance-level semantic information and the inherent characteristics of different features. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Tongshun Zhang , Pingping Liu , Yubing Lu , Mengen Cai , Zijian Zhang , Zhe Zhang , Qiuzhan 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

Learning lighting adaptation is a crucial step in achieving good visual perception and supporting downstream vision tasks. Current research often addresses individual light-related challenges, such as high dynamic range imaging and exposure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Qirui Yang , Peng-Tao Jiang , Hao Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Bo Li , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Images taken under low-light conditions tend to suffer from poor visibility, which can decrease image quality and even reduce the performance of the downstream tasks. It is hard for a CNN-based method to learn generalized features that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yi Huang , Xiaoguang Tu , Gui Fu , Tingting Liu , Bokai Liu , Ming Yang , Ziliang Feng

Low-light image enhancement remains a challenging problem due to severe noise, color distortion, contrast degradation, and loss of structural details under insufficient illumination. Existing methods typically apply uniform enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Bibhabasu Debnath , Sahana Ray , Sanjay Ghosh

Low-light image enhancement presents two primary challenges: 1) Significant variations in low-light images across different conditions, and 2) Enhancement levels influenced by subjective preferences and user intent. To address these issues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Ming Zhao , Pingping Liu , Tongshun Zhang , Zhe Zhang

This paper presents a novel network structure with illumination-aware gamma correction and complete image modelling to solve the low-light image enhancement problem. Low-light environments usually lead to less informative large-scale dark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yinglong Wang , Zhen Liu , Jianzhuang Liu , Songcen Xu , Shuaicheng Liu

The quality assessment (QA) of restored low light images is an important tool for benchmarking and improving low light restoration (LLR) algorithms. While several LLR algorithms exist, the subjective perception of the restored images has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Vignesh Kannan , Sameer Malik , Rajiv Soundararajan

Image decomposition offers deep insights into the imaging factors of visual data and significantly enhances various advanced computer vision tasks. In this work, we introduce a novel approach to low-light image enhancement based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Xingxing Yang , Jie Chen , Zaifeng Yang

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in image quality assessment (IQA) tasks. However, adapting such large-scale models is computationally expensive and still relies on substantial Mean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Xinyue Li , Zhichao Zhang , Zhiming Xu , Shubo Xu , Xiongkuo Min , Yitong Chen , Guangtao Zhai

Low-light vision remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision due to severe illumination degradation, which significantly affects the performance of downstream tasks such as detection and segmentation. While recent state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Fangtong Sun , Congyu Li , Ke Yang , Yuchen Pan , Hanwen Yu , Xichuan Zhang , Yiying Li

Recently, Fourier frequency information has attracted much attention in Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE). Some researchers noticed that, in the Fourier space, the lightness degradation mainly exists in the amplitude component and the rest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chenxi Wang , Hongjun Wu , Zhi Jin

It is suggested that low-light image enhancement realizes one-to-many mapping since we have different definitions of NORMAL-light given application scenarios or users' aesthetic. However, most existing methods ignore subjectivity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Ya'nan Wang , Zhuqing Jiang , Chang Liu , Kai Li , Aidong Men , Haiying Wang

Existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) methods focus on designing complicated networks based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or transformer. In addition, some BIQA methods enhance the performance of the model in a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Qunyue Huang , Bin Fang

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

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) algorithms evaluate the perceptual quality of an image using evaluation scores that assess the similarity or difference between two images. We propose a new low-level feature based IQA technique, which applies…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Navaneeth K. Kottayil , Irene Cheng , Frederic Dufaux , Anup Basu

Deep learning-based image enhancement methods show significant advantages in reducing noise and improving visibility in low-light conditions. These methods are typically based on one-to-one mapping, where the model learns a direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Miao Zhang , Jun Yin , Pengyu Zeng , Yiqing Shen , Shuai Lu , Xueqian Wang

Image acquisition in low-light conditions suffers from poor quality and significant degradation in visual aesthetics. This affects the visual perception of the acquired image and the performance of various computer vision and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Sumit Shekhar , Max Reimann , Amir Semmo , Sebastian Pasewaldt , Jürgen Döllner , Matthias Trapp

Underwater image enhancement is an important low-level computer vision task for autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely operated vehicles to explore and understand the underwater environments. Recently, deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Hao-Hsiang Yang , Kuan-Chih Huang , Wei-Ting Chen