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Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) is crucial for improving both human perception and computer vision tasks. This paper addresses two challenges in zero-reference LLIE: obtaining perceptually 'good' images using the Contrastive…

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Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) restores the color and brightness of underexposed images. Supervised methods suffer from high costs in collecting low/normal-light image pairs. Unsupervised methods invest substantial effort in crafting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Yinghao Song , Zhiyuan Cao , Wanhong Xiang , Sifan Long , Bo Yang , Hongwei Ge , Yanchun Liang , Chunguo Wu

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve illumination while preserving high-quality color and texture. However, existing methods often fail to extract reliable feature representations due to severely degraded pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xu Wu , Zhihui Lai , Xianxu Hou , Jie Zhou , Ya-nan Zhang , Linlin Shen

Recently, there have been significant advancements in Image Restoration based on CNN and transformer. However, the inherent characteristics of the Image Restoration task are often overlooked in many works. They, instead, tend to focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Dongqi Fan , Ting Yue , Xin Zhao , Renjing Xu , Liang Chang

Evaluating the performance of low-light image enhancement (LLE) is highly subjective, thus making integrating human preferences into image enhancement a necessity. Existing methods fail to consider this and present a series of potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Ling Li , Dong Liang , Yuanhang Gao , Sheng-Jun Huang , Songcan Chen

In this paper, we propose a novel low-light image enhancement method aimed at improving the performance of recognition models. Despite recent advances in deep learning, the recognition of images under low-light conditions remains a…

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

Score-based query attacks pose a serious threat to deep learning models by crafting adversarial examples (AEs) using only black-box access to model output scores, iteratively optimizing inputs based on observed loss values. While recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yanzhang Fu , Zizheng Guo , Jizhou Luo

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

Many existing methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) based on Retinex theory ignore important factors that affect the validity of this theory in digital imaging, such as noise, quantization error, non-linearity, and dynamic range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Shangquan Sun , Wenqi Ren , Jingyang Peng , Fenglong Song , Xiaochun Cao

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a fundamental task in computational photography, aiming to improve illumination, reduce noise, and enhance the image quality of low-light images. While recent advancements primarily focus on customizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Tong Li , Lizhi Wang , Hansen Feng , Lin Zhu , Wanxuan Lu , Hua Huang

Raw low light image enhancement (LLIE) has achieved much better performance than the sRGB domain enhancement methods due to the merits of raw data. However, the ambiguity between noisy to clean and raw to sRGB mappings may mislead the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Qirui Yang , Qihua Cheng , Huanjing Yue , Le Zhang , Yihao Liu , Jingyu Yang

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

Recently, Fourier frequency information has attracted much attention in Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE). Some researchers noticed that, in the Fourier space, the lightness degradation mainly exists in the amplitude component and the rest…

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

Adversarial perturbations dramatically decrease the accuracy of state-of-the-art image classifiers. In this paper, we propose and analyze a simple and computationally efficient defense strategy: inject random Gaussian noise, discretize each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Yuchen Zhang , Percy Liang

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

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

In surveillance, monitoring and tactical reconnaissance, gathering the right visual information from a dynamic environment and accurately processing such data are essential ingredients to making informed decisions which determines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Kin Gwn Lore , Adedotun Akintayo , Soumik Sarkar

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks that cause misclassification when specific perturbations are added to input images. This vulnerability also threatens the reliability of DNN-based monocular depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Takeru Kusakabe , Yudai Hirose , Mashiho Mukaida , Satoshi Ono

Enhancing low-light images while maintaining natural colors is a challenging problem due to camera processing variations and limited access to photos with ground-truth lighting conditions. The latter is a crucial factor for supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wojciech Kozłowski , Michał Szachniewicz , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba