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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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Qingsen Yan , Yixu Feng , Cheng Zhang , Pei Wang , Peng Wu , Wei Dong , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

This paper introduces a novel deep learning framework for low-light image enhancement, named the Encoder-Decoder Network with Illumination Guidance (EDNIG). Building upon the U-Net architecture, EDNIG integrates an illumination map, derived…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Le-Anh Tran , Chung Nguyen Tran , Ngoc-Luu Nguyen , Nhan Cach Dang , Jordi Carrabina , David Castells-Rufas , Minh Son Nguyen

Low-light image enhancement (LLE) aims to improve the visual quality of images captured in poorly lit conditions, which often suffer from low brightness, low contrast, noise, and color distortions. These issues hinder the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Junyu Xia , Jiesong Bai , Yihang Dong

We propose RelitLRM, a Large Reconstruction Model (LRM) for generating high-quality Gaussian splatting representations of 3D objects under novel illuminations from sparse (4-8) posed images captured under unknown static lighting. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Tianyuan Zhang , Zhengfei Kuang , Haian Jin , Zexiang Xu , Sai Bi , Hao Tan , He Zhang , Yiwei Hu , Milos Hasan , William T. Freeman , Kai Zhang , Fujun Luan

Advancements in image sensing have elevated the importance of Ultra-High-Definition Image Restoration (UHD IR). Traditional methods, such as extreme downsampling or transformation from the spatial to the frequency domain, encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Mohab Kishawy , Ali Abdellatif Hussein , Jun Chen

Image enhancement holds extensive applications in real-world scenarios due to complex environments and limitations of imaging devices. Conventional methods are often constrained by their tailored models, resulting in diminished robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yixuan Zhu , Wenliang Zhao , Ao Li , Yansong Tang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

In this work, we observe that the generators, which are pre-trained on massive natural images, inherently hold the promising potential for superior low-light image enhancement against varying scenarios.Specifically, we embed a pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Yuxuan Gu , Yi Jin , Ben Wang , Zhixiang Wei , Xiaoxiao Ma , Pengyang Ling , Haoxuan Wang , Huaian Chen , Enhong Chen

Images captured in weak illumination conditions could seriously degrade the image quality. Solving a series of degradation of low-light images can effectively improve the visual quality of images and the performance of high-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jiang Hai , Zhu Xuan , Songchen Han , Ren Yang , Yutong Hao , Fengzhu Zou , Fang Lin

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

Recent advances in diffusion-based Large Restoration Models (LRMs) have significantly improved photo-realistic image restoration by leveraging the internal knowledge embedded within model weights. However, existing LRMs often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Hang Guo , Tao Dai , Zhihao Ouyang , Taolin Zhang , Yaohua Zha , Bin Chen , Shu-tao Xia

Low-light images suffer from severe noise and low illumination. Current deep learning models that are trained with real-world images have excellent noise reduction, but a ratio parameter must be chosen manually to complete the enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Qingxu Fu , Xiaoguang Di , Yu Zhang

Maritime images captured under low-light imaging condition easily suffer from low visibility and unexpected noise, leading to negative effects on maritime traffic supervision and management. To promote imaging performance, it is necessary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Yu Guo , Yuxu Lu , Ryan Wen Liu , Meifang Yang , Kwok Tai Chui

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

Multi-exposure image fusion (MEF) synthesizes multiple, differently exposed images of the same scene into a single, well-exposed composite. Retinex theory, which separates image illumination from scene reflectance, provides a natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Haowen Bai , Jiangshe Zhang , Zixiang Zhao , Lilun Deng , Yukun Cui , Shuang Xu

Restoring images from low-light data is a challenging problem. Most existing deep-network based algorithms are designed to be trained with pairwise images. Due to the lack of real-world datasets, they usually perform poorly when generalized…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Yangyang Qu , Chao liu , Yongsheng Ou

In recent years, significant progress has been made in image recognition technology based on deep neural networks. However, improving recognition performance under low-light conditions remains a significant challenge. This study addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Seitaro Ono , Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito , Masato Tsukada

Recent advances have shown that large-scale video diffusion models can be repurposed as neural renderers by first decomposing videos into intrinsic scene representations and then performing forward rendering under novel illumination. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Weiqing Xiao , Hong Li , Xiuyu Yang , Houyuan Chen , Wenyi Li , Tianqi Liu , Shaocong Xu , Chongjie Ye , Hao Zhao , Beibei Wang

We introduce ISALux, a novel transformer-based approach for Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) that seamlessly integrates illumination and semantic priors. Our architecture includes an original self-attention block, Hybrid Illumination and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Raul Balmez , Alexandru Brateanu , Ciprian Orhei , Codruta Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti

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

With the growing demand for real-time video enhancement in live applications, existing methods often struggle to balance speed and effective exposure control, particularly under uneven lighting. We introduce RRNet (Rendering Relighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Wenlong Yang , Canran Jin , Weihang Yuan , Chao Wang , Lifeng Sun