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In this paper, we tackle the problem of enhancing real-world low-light images with significant noise in an unsupervised fashion. Conventional unsupervised learning-based approaches usually tackle the low-light image enhancement problem…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Wei Xiong , Ding Liu , Xiaohui Shen , Chen Fang , Jiebo Luo

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

Low-light video deblurring poses significant challenges in applications like nighttime surveillance and autonomous driving due to dim lighting and long exposures. While event cameras offer potential solutions with superior low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Mingchen Zhong , Xin Lu , Dong Li , Senyan Xu , Ruixuan Jiang , Xueyang Fu , Baocai Yin

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) methods often incorporate auxiliary tasks to improve performance. However, existing approaches face limitations due to insufficient integration and a lack of flexible uncertainty estimation, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yiwei Lou , Yuanpeng He , Rongchao Zhang , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang , Yu Huang

Removing the noise and improving the visual quality of hyperspectral images (HSIs) is challenging in academia and industry. Great efforts have been made to leverage local, global or spectral context information for HSI denoising. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Haodong Pan , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du

Energy-based latent variable models (EBLVMs) are more expressive than conventional energy-based models. However, its potential on visual tasks are limited by its training process based on maximum likelihood estimate that requires sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ge Kan , Jinhu Lü , Tian Wang , Baochang Zhang , Aichun Zhu , Lei Huang , Guodong Guo , Hichem Snoussi

We present a lightweight two-stage framework for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) that achieves competitive perceptual quality with significantly fewer parameters than existing methods. Our approach combines frozen algorithm-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shimon Murai , Teppei Kurita , Ryuta Satoh , Yusuke Moriuchi

Images acquired in low-light environments present significant obstacles for computer vision systems and human perception, especially for applications requiring accurate object recognition and scene analysis. Such images typically manifest…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Bibhabasu Debnath , Sahana Ray , Sanjay Ghosh

This paper addresses low-light video super-resolution (LVSR), aiming to restore high-resolution videos from low-light, low-resolution (LR) inputs. Existing LVSR methods often struggle to recover fine details due to limited contrast and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Dachun Kai , Zeyu Xiao , Huyue Zhu , Jiaxiao Wang , Yueyi Zhang , Xiaoyan Sun

Many learning-based low-light image enhancement (LLIE) algorithms are based on the Retinex theory. However, the Retinex-based decomposition techniques in such models introduce corruptions which limit their enhancement performance. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhihao Zheng , Mooi Choo Chuah

Event cameras are emerging imaging technology that offers advantages over conventional frame-based imaging sensors in dynamic range and sensing speed. Complementing the rich texture and color perception of traditional image frames, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Peiqi Duan , Boyu Li , Yixin Yang , Hanyue Lou , Minggui Teng , Yi Ma , Boxin Shi

Low-light videos often exhibit spatiotemporal incoherent noise, leading to poor visibility and compromised performance across various computer vision applications. One significant challenge in enhancing such content using modern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Ruirui Lin , Alexandra Malyugina , David Bull

In low-light environments, the performance of computer vision algorithms often deteriorates significantly, adversely affecting key vision tasks such as segmentation, detection, and classification. With the rapid advancement of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Fangxue Liu , Lei Fan

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) has long been a challenging problem in low-level vision, as insufficient illumination often leads to low contrast, detail loss, and noise. Recent studies show that deep learning-based Retinex theory can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ziqi Wang , Xu Zhang , Laibin Chang , Shi Chen , Jiaqi Ma , Huan Zhang

This paper proposes a joint alignment and denoising method for event-based vision sensors (EVSs). Existing signal processing methods for EVSs typically perform event alignment (EA) and event denoising (ED) as separate modules. However, this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Shimpei Harada , Junya Hara , Hiroshi Higashi , Yuichi Tanaka

Image denoising is the process of removing noise from noisy images, which is an image domain transferring task, i.e., from a single or several noise level domains to a photo-realistic domain. In this paper, we propose an effective image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-05 Xianxu Hou , Hongming Luo , Jingxin Liu , Bolei Xu , Ke Sun , Yuanhao Gong , Bozhi Liu , Guoping Qiu

Traditional frame-based cameras inevitably suffer from motion blur due to long exposure times. As a kind of bio-inspired camera, the event camera records the intensity changes in an asynchronous way with high temporal resolution, providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Lei Sun , Christos Sakaridis , Jingyun Liang , Qi Jiang , Kailun Yang , Peng Sun , Yaozu Ye , Kaiwei Wang , Luc Van Gool

Although image denoising algorithms have attracted significant research attention, surprisingly few have been proposed for, or evaluated on, noise from imagery acquired under real low-light conditions. Moreover, noise characteristics are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Alexandra Malyugina , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , David Bull

Bimodal objects, such as the checkerboard pattern used in camera calibration, markers for object tracking, and text on road signs, to name a few, are prevalent in our daily lives and serve as a visual form to embed information that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Shijie Lin , Xiang Zhang , Lei Yang , Lei Yu , Bin Zhou , Xiaowei Luo , Wenping Wang , Jia Pan

Robotic Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models generalize well for open-ended manipulation, but their perception is fragile under sensing-stage degradations such as extreme low light, motion blur, and black clipping. We present E-VLA, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jiajun Zhai , Hao Shi , Shangwei Guo , Kailun Yang , Kaiwei Wang