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Low light very likely leads to the degradation of an image's quality and even causes visual task failures. Existing image enhancement technologies are prone to overenhancement, color distortion or time consumption, and their adaptability is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Xiaozhou Lei , Zixiang Fei , Wenju Zhou , Huiyu Zhou , Minrui Fei

A novel color image enhancement method is proposed based on Retinex to enhance color images under non-uniform illumination or poor visibility conditions. Different from the conventional Retinex algorithms, the Weighted Guided Image Filter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Qi Mu , Yanyan Wei , Zhanli Li

Images obtained in real-world low-light conditions are not only low in brightness, but they also suffer from many other types of degradation, such as color distortion, unknown noise, detail loss and halo artifacts. In this paper, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Xinxu Wei , Xianshi Zhang , Shisen Wang , Cheng Cheng , Yanlin Huang , Kaifu Yang , Yongjie Li

This paper addresses low-light video super-resolution (LVSR), aiming to restore high-resolution videos from low-light, low-resolution (LR) inputs. Existing LVSR methods often struggle to recover fine details due to limited contrast and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Dachun Kai , Zeyu Xiao , Huyue Zhu , Jiaxiao Wang , Yueyi Zhang , Xiaoyan Sun

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Yini Li , Louis Forster , David Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Images captured in poorly lit conditions are often corrupted by acquisition noise. Leveraging recent advances in graph-based regularization, we propose a fast Retinex-based restoration scheme that denoises and contrast-enhances an image.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Yeganeh Gharedaghi , Gene Cheung , Xianming Liu

Illumination degradation image restoration (IDIR) techniques aim to improve the visibility of degraded images and mitigate the adverse effects of deteriorated illumination. Among these algorithms, diffusion model (DM)-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chunming He , Chengyu Fang , Yulun Zhang , Tian Ye , Kai Li , Longxiang Tang , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li , Sina Farsiu

In this paper, a novel image enhancement network is proposed, where HDR images are used for generating training data for our network. Most of conventional image enhancement methods, including Retinex based methods, do not take into account…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

Full 360$^\circ$ novel view synthesis under low-light conditions remains challenging. Insufficient illumination, noise amplification, and view-dependent photometric inconsistencies prevent existing methods from jointly preserving geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 YuHao Yin , Zongji Wang , Yuanben Zhang , Biqing Li , Jiesong Bai , Junyi Liu

The difficulties of underwater image degradation due to light scattering, absorption, and fog-like particles which lead to low resolution and poor visibility are discussed in this study report. We suggest a sophisticated hybrid strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Yugandhar Reddy Gogireddy , Jithendra Reddy Gogireddy

Although remarkable progress has been made, existing methods for enhancing underexposed photos tend to produce visually unpleasing results due to the existence of visual artifacts (e.g., color distortion, loss of details and uneven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Qing Zhang , Yongwei Nie , Lei Zhu , Chunxia Xiao , Wei-Shi Zheng

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

Low-light image enhancement task is essential yet challenging as it is ill-posed intrinsically. Previous arts mainly focus on the low-light images captured in the visible spectrum using pixel-wise loss, which limits the capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Shulin Tian , Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

This paper introduces a novel approach to illumination manipulation in diffusion models, addressing the gap in conditional image generation with a focus on lighting conditions. We conceptualize the diffusion model as a black-box image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Xiaoyan Xing , Vincent Tao Hu , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Konrad Groh , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

Low-light image denoising and enhancement are challenging, especially when traditional noise assumptions, such as Gaussian noise, do not hold in majority. In many real-world scenarios, such as low-light imaging, noise is signal-dependent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Isha Rao , Ratul Chakraborty , Sanjay Ghosh

Images acquired by computer vision systems under low light conditions have multiple characteristics like high noise, lousy illumination, reflectance, and bad contrast, which make object detection tasks difficult. Much work has been done to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Winston Chen , Tejas Shah

We propose a novel Retinex image-decomposition network that can be trained in a self-supervised manner. The Retinex image-decomposition aims to decompose an image into illumination-invariant and illumination-variant components, referred to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Kouki Seo , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

A simple and effective low-light image enhancement method based on a noise-aware texture-preserving retinex model is proposed in this work. The new method, called NATLE, attempts to strike a balance between noise removal and natural texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Zohreh Azizi , Xuejing Lei , C. -C Jay Kuo

Deep learning-based low-light image enhancers have made significant progress in recent years, with a trend towards achieving satisfactory visual quality while gradually reducing the number of parameters and improving computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Nan An , Long Ma , Guangchao Han , Xin Fan , RIsheng Liu

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