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Low-light image enhancement exhibits an ill-posed nature, as a given image may have many enhanced versions, yet recent studies focus on building a deterministic mapping from input to an enhanced version. In contrast, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Xiaopeng Sun , Muxingzi Li , Tianyu He , Lubin Fan

As the quality of optical sensors improves, there is a need for processing large-scale images. In particular, the ability of devices to capture ultra-high definition (UHD) images and video places new demands on the image processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Tianrun Shen , Wenhan Luo , Bjorn Stenger , Tong Lu

Low-light images often suffer from low contrast, noise, and color distortion, degrading visual quality and impairing downstream vision tasks. We propose a novel conditional diffusion framework for low-light image enhancement that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xuanshuo Fu , Lei Kang , Javier Vazquez-Corral

The encoder-decoder architecture is widely used as a lightweight semantic segmentation network. However, it struggles with a limited performance compared to a well-designed Dilated-FCN model for two major problems. First, commonly used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Jiangyun Li , Sen Zha , Chen Chen , Meng Ding , Tianxiang Zhang , Hong Yu

In this paper, we propose a 2-stage low-light image enhancement method called Self-Reference Deep Adaptive Curve Estimation (Self-DACE). In the first stage, we present an intuitive, lightweight, fast, and unsupervised luminance enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Jianyu Wen , Chenhao Wu , Tong Zhang , Yixuan Yu , Piotr Swierczynski

We present an effective and efficient approach for low-light image enhancement, named Lookup Table Global Curve Estimation (LUT-GCE). In contrast to existing curve-based methods with pixel-wise adjustment, we propose to estimate a global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Changguang Wu , Jiangxin Dong , Jinhui Tang

A novel method of contrast enhancement is proposed for underexposed images, in which heavy noise is hidden. Under low light conditions, images taken by digital cameras have low contrast in dark or bright regions. This is due to a limited…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Chien-Cheng Chien , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

This paper is on image and face super-resolution. The vast majority of prior work for this problem focus on how to increase the resolution of low-resolution images which are artificially generated by simple bilinear down-sampling (or in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Adrian Bulat , Jing Yang , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Scattering and attenuation of light in no-homogeneous imaging media or inconsistent light intensity will cause insufficient contrast and color distortion in the collected images, which limits the developments such as vision-driven smart…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Yuxu Lu , Dong Yang , Yuan Gao , Ryan Wen Liu , Jun Liu , Yu Guo

Image enhancement aims at improving the aesthetic visual quality of photos by retouching the color and tone, and is an essential technology for professional digital photography. Recent years deep learning-based image enhancement algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Chengxu Liu , Huan Yang , Jianlong Fu , Xueming Qian

Underwater environments pose significant challenges due to the selective absorption and scattering of light by water, which affects image clarity, contrast, and color fidelity. To overcome these, we introduce OceanLens, a method that models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-21 Rajini Makam , Dhatri Shankari T M , Sharanya Patil , Suresh Sundram

Contrast enhancement and noise removal are coupled problems for low-light image enhancement. The existing Retinex based methods do not take the coupling relation into consideration, resulting in under or over-smoothing of the enhanced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Yang Wang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jing Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Wei Zhang , Feng Wu

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve low-illumination images. However, existing methods face two challenges: (1) uncertainty in restoration from diverse brightness degradations; (2) loss of texture and color information caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xu Wu , XianXu Hou , Zhihui Lai , Jie Zhou , Ya-nan Zhang , Witold Pedrycz , Linlin Shen

Low-light image enhancement restores the colors and details of a single image and improves high-level visual tasks. However, restoring the lost details in the dark area is still a challenge relying only on the RGB domain. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Xiangchen Yin , Zhenda Yu , Xin Gao , Xiao Sun

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the visibility of degraded images to better align with human visual perception. While diffusion-based methods have shown promising performance due to their strong generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jinhong He , Minglong Xue , Zhipu Liu , Mingliang Zhou , Aoxiang Ning , Palaiahnakote Shivakumara

Low-light image enhancement remains a challenging task, particularly in the absence of paired training data. In this study, we present LucentVisionNet, a novel zero-shot learning framework that addresses the limitations of traditional and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Hassan Khalid , Nisar Ahmed

Deep learning-based methods for low-light image enhancement typically require enormous paired training data, which are impractical to capture in real-world scenarios. Recently, unsupervised approaches have been explored to eliminate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Feng Zhang , Yuanjie Shao , Yishi Sun , Kai Zhu , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

Low-light images are commonly encountered in real-world scenarios, and numerous low-light image enhancement (LLIE) methods have been proposed to improve the visibility of these images. The primary goal of LLIE is to generate clearer images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Xu Wu , Zhihui Lai , Zhou Jie , Can Gao , Xianxu Hou , Ya-nan Zhang , Linlin Shen

Low-light image enhancement is challenging due to complex degradations, including amplified noise, artifacts, and color distortion. While Retinex-based deep learning methods have achieved promising results, they primarily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Youssef Aboelwafa , Hicham G. Elmongui , Marwan Torki

Current deep learning-based low-light image enhancement methods often struggle with high-resolution images, and fail to meet the practical demands of visual perception across diverse and unseen scenarios. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Tomáš Chobola , Yu Liu , Hanyi Zhang , Julia A. Schnabel , Tingying Peng