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We introduce LTCF-Net, a novel network architecture designed for enhancing low-light images. Unlike Retinex-based methods, our approach utilizes two color spaces - LAB and YUV - to efficiently separate and process color information, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Gaojing Zhang , Jinglun Feng

Two difficulties here make low-light image enhancement a challenging task; firstly, it needs to consider not only luminance restoration but also image contrast, image denoising and color distortion issues simultaneously. Second, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Wenchao Li , Bangshu Xiong , Qiaofeng Ou , Xiaoyun Long , Jinhao Zhu , Jiabao Chen , Shuyuan Wen

Human vision relies heavily on available ambient light to perceive objects. Low-light scenes pose two distinct challenges: information loss due to insufficient illumination and undesirable brightness shifts. Low-light image enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Shyang-En Weng , Shaou-Gang Miaou , Ricky Christanto

Image relighting has emerged as a problem of significant research interest inspired by augmented reality applications. Physics-based traditional methods, as well as black box deep learning models, have been developed. The existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Amirsaeed Yazdani , Tiantong Guo , Vishal Monga

Due to the wide dynamic range in real low-light scenes, there will be large differences in the degree of contrast degradation and detail blurring of captured images, making it difficult for existing end-to-end methods to enhance low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Haodian Wang , Long Peng , Yuejin Sun , Zengyu Wan , Yang Wang , Yang Cao

In real-world scenarios, images captured often suffer from blurring, noise, and other forms of image degradation, and due to sensor limitations, people usually can only obtain low dynamic range images. To achieve high-quality images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Kangzhen Yang , Tao Hu , Kexin Dai , Genggeng Chen , Yu Cao , Wei Dong , Peng Wu , Yanning Zhang , Qingsen Yan

Enhancing the quality of low-light images plays a very important role in many image processing and multimedia applications. In recent years, a variety of deep learning techniques have been developed to address this challenging task. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-13 Long Ma , Risheng Liu , Jiaao Zhang , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

In an underwater scene, wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering degrade the visibility of images, causing low contrast and distorted color casts. To address this problem, we propose a convolutional neural network based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Saeed Anwar , Chongyi Li , Fatih Porikli

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

Images captured under low-light scenarios often suffer from low quality. Previous CNN-based deep learning methods often involve using Retinex theory. Nevertheless, most of them cannot perform well in more complicated datasets like LOL-v2…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jingcheng Li , Ye Qiao , Haocheng Xu , Sitao Huang

Decreased visibility, intensive noise, and biased color are the common problems existing in low-light images. These visual disturbances further reduce the performance of high-level vision tasks, such as object detection, and tracking. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Hao Chen , Zhi Jin

Image enhancement is a common technique used to mitigate issues such as severe noise, low brightness, low contrast, and color deviation in low-light images. However, providing an optimal high-light image as a reference for low-light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Junde Wu , Rao Fu , Yong Li , Yue Wang , Yanwu Xu , Guohui Yang , Chunhui Wang

Accurately localizing and segmenting obscured objects from faint light patterns beyond the field of view is highly challenging due to multiple scattering and medium-induced perturbations. Most existing methods, based on real-valued modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhiwen Zheng , Yiwei Ouyang , Zhao Huang , Tao Zhang , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Huiyu Zhou , Wenwen Tang , Shaowei Jiang , Jin Liu , Xingru Huang

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

Prior-based methods for low-light image enhancement often face challenges in extracting available prior information from dim images. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a simple yet effective Retinex model with the proposed edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Chaoyan Huang , Zhongming Wu , Tieyong Zeng

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to restore natural visibility, color fidelity, and structural detail under severe illumination degradation. State-of-the-art (SOTA) LLIE techniques often rely on large models and multi-stage training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexandru Brateanu , Tingting Mu , Codruta Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti

Low-light image enhancement is challenging in that it needs to consider not only brightness recovery but also complex issues like color distortion and noise, which usually hide in the dark. Simply adjusting the brightness of a low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Feifan Lv , Yu Li , Feng Lu

Photo retouching aims to adjust the luminance, contrast, and saturation of the image to make it more human aesthetically desirable. However, artists' actions in photo retouching are difficult to quantitatively analyze. By investigating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Hailong Ma , Sibo Feng , Xi Xiao , Chenyu Dong , Xingyue Cheng

Relying on either deep models or physical models are two mainstream approaches for solving inverse sample reconstruction problems in programmable illumination computational microscopy. Solutions based on physical models possess strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Ruiqing Sun , Delong Yang , Shaohui Zhang , Qun Hao

Background and Objective: The strong demand for medical imaging applications leads to the popularity of the CT reconstruction problem. Researchers proposed multiple constraints to tackle none ideal factors in CT reconstruction such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Ziyu Shu , Alireza Entezari