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Light adaptation or brightness correction is a key step in improving the contrast and visual appeal of an image. There are multiple light-related tasks (for example, low-light enhancement and exposure correction) and previous studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Kai-Fu Yang , Cheng Cheng , Shi-Xuan Zhao , Xian-Shi Zhang , Yong-Jie Li

Poor image quality in low light images may result in a reduced number of feature matching between images. In this paper, we investigate the performance of feature extraction algorithms in low light environments. To find an optimal setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Pranjay Shyam , Antyanta Bangunharcana , Kyung-Soo Kim

In this paper, we present Self-DACE++, an improved unsupervised and lightweight framework for Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE), building upon our previous Self-Reference Deep Adaptive Curve Estimation (Self-DACE). To better address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jianyu Wen , Jun Xie , Feng Chen , Zhepeng Wang , Chenhao Wu , Tong Zhang , Yixuan Yu , Piotr Swierczynski

Real-world low-light images suffer from two main degradations, namely, inevitable noise and poor visibility. Since the noise exhibits different levels, its estimation has been implemented in recent works when enhancing low-light images from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Chuanjun Zheng , Daming Shi , Wentian Shi

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

Low-light image enhancement is generally regarded as a challenging task in image processing, especially for the complex visual tasks at night or weakly illuminated. In order to reduce the blurs or noises on the low-light images, a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Yangming Shi , Xiaopo Wu , Ming Zhu

Images captured under low-light conditions manifest poor visibility, lack contrast and color vividness. Compared to conventional approaches, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well in enhancing images. However, being solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Aditya Arora , Muhammad Haris , Syed Waqas Zamir , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Light Field (LF) offers unique advantages such as post-capture refocusing and depth estimation, but low-light conditions limit these capabilities. To restore low-light LFs we should harness the geometric cues present in different LF views,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Mohit Lamba , Kranthi Kumar , Kaushik Mitra

Traditional Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) methods primarily focus on uniform brightness adjustment, often neglecting instance-level semantic information and the inherent characteristics of different features. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Tongshun Zhang , Pingping Liu , Yubing Lu , Mengen Cai , Zijian Zhang , Zhe Zhang , Qiuzhan Zhou

Images obtained under low-light conditions will seriously affect the quality of the images. Solving the problem of poor low-light image quality can effectively improve the visual quality of images and better improve the usability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yonglong Jiang , Liangliang Li , Yuan Xue , Hongbing Ma

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the NTIRE 2026 Low Light Image Enhancement Challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and final results. The objective of this challenge is to identify effective networks capable of…

We present a new additive image factorization technique that treats images to be composed of multiple latent specular components which can be simply estimated recursively by modulating the sparsity during decomposition. Our model-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Saurabh Saini , P J Narayanan

Obtaining pairs of low/normal-light videos, with motions, is more challenging than still images, which raises technical issues and poses the technical route of unpaired learning as a critical role. This paper makes endeavors in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Lingyu Zhu , Wenhan Yang , Baoliang Chen , Hanwei Zhu , Zhangkai Ni , Qi Mao , Shiqi Wang

Low-light images, i.e. the images captured in low-light conditions, suffer from very poor visibility caused by low contrast, color distortion and significant measurement noise. Low-light image enhancement is about improving the visibility…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Jinxiu Liang , Yong Xu , Yuhui Quan , Jingwen Wang , Haibin Ling , Hui Ji

Low-light image enhancement (LLE) remains challenging due to the unfavorable prevailing low-contrast and weak-visibility problems of single RGB images. In this paper, we respond to the intriguing learning-related question -- if leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Dong Liang , Ling Li , Mingqiang Wei , Shuo Yang , Liyan Zhang , Wenhan Yang , Yun Du , Huiyu Zhou

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

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 essential for numerous computer vision tasks, including object detection, tracking, segmentation, and scene understanding. Despite substantial research on improving low-quality images captured in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Md Tanvir Islam , Inzamamul Alam , Simon S. Woo , Saeed Anwar , IK Hyun Lee , Khan Muhammad

Low-light image enhancement task is essential yet challenging as it is ill-posed intrinsically. Previous arts mainly focus on the low-light images captured in the visible spectrum using pixel-wise loss, which limits the capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Shulin Tian , Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Existing deep convolutional neural networks have found major success in image deraining, but at the expense of an enormous number of parameters. This limits their potential application, for example in mobile devices. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Xueyang Fu , Borong Liang , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , John Paisley