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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…

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Existing low-light image enhancement (LIE) methods have achieved noteworthy success in solving synthetic distortions, yet they often fall short in practical applications. The limitations arise from two inherent challenges in real-world LIE:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Yunlong Lin , Tian Ye , Sixiang Chen , Zhenqi Fu , Yingying Wang , Wenhao Chai , Zhaohu Xing , Lei Zhu , Xinghao Ding

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is critical in computer vision. Existing LLIE methods often fail to discover the underlying relationships between different sub-components, causing the loss of complementary information between multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yudi Ruan , Hao Ma , Weikai Li , Xiao Wang

In this paper, we present a simple yet highly effective "free lunch" solution for low-light image enhancement (LLIE), which aims to restore low-light images as if acquired in well-illuminated environments. Our method necessitates no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Joshua Cho , Sara Aghajanzadeh , Zhen Zhu , D. A. Forsyth

Event-based low-light image enhancement (LIE) methods mainly focus on incorporating high dynamic range (HDR) information from events while overlooking the essential global illumination in images and the inherent noise sensitivity of event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Senyan Xu , Zhijing Sun , Kean Liu , Xin Lu , Ruixuan Jiang , Mingyang Huang , Xueyang Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha

Although significant progress has been made in enhancing visibility, retrieving texture details, and mitigating noise in Low-Light (LL) images, the challenge persists in applying current Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Xiaohong Liu , Yulun Zhang , Guangtao Zhai , Jun Chen

Current Low-light Image Enhancement (LLIE) techniques predominantly rely on either direct Low-Light (LL) to Normal-Light (NL) mappings or guidance from semantic features or illumination maps. Nonetheless, the intrinsic ill-posedness of LLIE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Wei Dong , Yan Min , Han Zhou , Jun Chen

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of low-light image and video enhancement, addressing two primary challenges in the field. The first challenge is the prevalence of mixed over-/under-exposed images, which are not adequately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Shen Zheng , Yiling Ma , Jinqian Pan , Changjie Lu , Gaurav Gupta

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the perceptual quality of an image captured in low-light conditions. Generally, a low-light image can be divided into lightness and chrominance components. Recent advances in this area…

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

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) is a crucial computer vision task that aims to restore detailed visual information from corrupted low-light images. Many existing LLIE methods are based on standard RGB (sRGB) space, which often produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Qingsen Yan , Yixu Feng , Cheng Zhang , Guansong Pang , Kangbiao Shi , Peng Wu , Wei Dong , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the visibility of images captured in poorly lit environments. Prevalent event-based solutions primarily utilize events triggered by motion, i.e., ''motion events'' to strengthen only the…

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Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation but come with significant computational costs, posing challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Recent post-training quantization (PTQ) methods have…

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Hyperspectral sensing provides rich spectral information for scene understanding in urban driving, but its high dimensionality poses challenges for interpretation and efficient learning. We introduce Learnable Quantum Efficiency (LQE), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Imad Ali Shah , Jiarong Li , Ethan Delaney , Enda Ward , Martin Glavin , Edward Jones , Brian Deegan

Training deep neural networks with noise and data heterogeneity is a major challenge. We introduce Lightweight Learnable Adaptive Weighting (LiLAW), a method that dynamically adjusts the loss weight of each training sample based on its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Abhishek Moturu , Muhammad Muzammil , Anna Goldenberg , Babak Taati

Unlike ReLU, newer activation functions (like Swish, H-swish, Mish) that are frequently employed in popular efficient architectures can also result in negative activation values, with skewed positive and negative ranges. Typical learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yash Bhalgat , Jinwon Lee , Markus Nagel , Tijmen Blankevoort , Nojun Kwak

Low-light image enhancement is an important task in computer vision, essential for improving the visibility and quality of images captured in non-optimal lighting conditions. Inadequate illumination can lead to significant information loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ezequiel Perez-Zarate , Oscar Ramos-Soto , Chunxiao Liu , Diego Oliva , Marco Perez-Cisneros

Recently, numerous end-to-end optimized image compression neural networks have been developed and proved themselves as leaders in rate-distortion performance. The main strength of these learnt compression methods is in powerful nonlinear…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Xi Zhang , Xiaolin Wu

Prevailing quantization techniques in Learned Image Compression (LIC) typically employ a static, uniform bit-width across all layers, failing to adapt to the highly diverse data distributions and sensitivity characteristics inherent in LIC…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Youneng Bao , Yulong Cheng , Yiping Liu , Yichen Yang , Peng Qin , Mu Li , Yongsheng Liang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the visual quality of images captured under poor lighting conditions. In supervised LLIE research, there exists a significant yet often overlooked inconsistency between the overall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jingxi Liao , Shijie Hao , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

In this paper, we propose a diffusion-based unsupervised framework that incorporates physically explainable Retinex theory with diffusion models for low-light image enhancement, named LightenDiffusion. Specifically, we present a…

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