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This paper focuses on finding the most optimal pre-processing methods considering three common algorithms for image enhancement: Brightening, CLAHE and Retinex. For the purpose of image training in general, these methods will be combined to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Thi Phuoc Hanh Nguyen , Zinan Cai , Khanh Nguyen , Sokuntheariddh Keth , Ningyuan Shen , Mira Park

Due to the low accuracy of object detection and recognition in many intelligent surveillance systems at nighttime, the quality of night images is crucial. Compared with the corresponding daytime image, nighttime image is characterized as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Xinyi Bai , Steffi Agino Priyanka , Hsiao-Jung Tung , Yuankai Wang

Low-light and blurring issues are prevalent when capturing photos at night, often due to the use of long exposure to address dim environments. Addressing these joint problems can be challenging and error-prone if an end-to-end model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Tu Vo , Chan Y. Park

Recent approaches for 3D relighting have shown promise in integrating 2D image relighting generative priors to alter the appearance of a 3D representation while preserving the underlying structure. Nevertheless, generative priors used for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yehonathan Litman , Fernando De la Torre , Shubham Tulsiani

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

Low-light images suffer from severe noise, contrast loss, and semantic ambiguity, making enhancement a joint problem of denoising and detail recovery. We propose PixIE, a feed-forward pixel-space LLIE framework semantically prompted by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ruirui Lin , Guoxi Huang , David Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

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

Most existing works in Person Re-identification (ReID) focus on settings where illumination either is kept the same or has very little fluctuation. However, the changes in the illumination degree may affect the robustness of a ReID…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Ziyue Zhang , Richard YD Xu , Shuai Jiang , Yang Li , Congzhentao Huang , Chen Deng

We introduce Adaptive Guided Upsampling (AGU), an efficient method for upscaling low-light images capable of optimizing multiple image quality characteristics at the same time, such as reducing noise and increasing sharpness. It is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Angela Vivian Dcosta , Chunbo Song , Rafael Radkowski

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

Occupancy prediction aims to estimate the 3D spatial distribution of occupied regions along with their corresponding semantic labels. Existing vision-based methods perform well on daytime benchmarks but struggle in nighttime scenarios due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yuan Wu , Zhiqiang Yan , Yigong Zhang , Xiang Li , Jian Yang

A low-light image enhancement is a highly demanded image processing technique, especially for consumer digital cameras and cameras on mobile phones. In this paper, a gradient-based low-light image enhancement algorithm is proposed. The key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Masayuki Tanaka , Takashi Shibata , Masatoshi Okutomi

This paper proposes a new light-weight convolutional neural network (5k parameters) for non-uniform illumination image enhancement to handle color, exposure, contrast, noise and artifacts, etc., simultaneously and effectively. More…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Feifan Lv , Bo Liu , Feng Lu

The Retinex theory models the image as a product of illumination and reflection components, which has received extensive attention and is widely used in image enhancement, segmentation and color restoration. However, it has been rarely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Liang Wu , Wenjing Lu , Liming Tang , Zhuang Fang

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) aims to restore vivid content and details from corrupted low-light images. However, existing standard RGB (sRGB) color space-based LLIE methods often produce color bias and brightness artifacts due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Qingsen Yan , Kangbiao Shi , Yixu Feng , Tao Hu , Peng Wu , Guansong Pang , Yanning Zhang

In this paper we are proposing the use of GIMP Retinex, a filter of the GNU Image Manipulation Program, for enhancing foggy images. This filter involves adjusting four different parameters to find the output image which has to be preferred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Roberto Marazzato , Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

Lighting is a determining factor in photography that affects the style, expression of emotion, and even quality of images. Creating or finding satisfying lighting conditions, in reality, is laborious and time-consuming, so it is of great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Zuo-Liang Zhu , Zhen Li , Rui-Xun Zhang , Chun-Le Guo , Ming-Ming Cheng

Inverse rendering methods aim to estimate geometry, materials and illumination from multi-view RGB images. In order to achieve better decomposition, recent approaches attempt to model indirect illuminations reflected from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Haoqian Wu , Zhipeng Hu , Lincheng Li , Yongqiang Zhang , Changjie Fan , Xin Yu

Poor lighting conditions significantly impact image quality, posing substantial challenges for image editing and visualization. Many existing enhancement methods aim at proposing complex models while neglecting the intrinsic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xuanshuo Fu , Lei Kang , Javier Vazquez-Corral

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the perception or interpretability of an image captured in an environment with poor illumination. With the advent of deep learning, the LLIE technique has achieved significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Yunhong Tao , Wenbing Tao , Xiang Xiang