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In this paper, we propose a diffusion-based unsupervised framework that incorporates physically explainable Retinex theory with diffusion models for low-light image enhancement, named LightenDiffusion. Specifically, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Hai Jiang , Ao Luo , Xiaohong Liu , Songchen Han , Shuaicheng Liu

Recent advances in camera designs and imaging pipelines allow us to capture high-quality images using smartphones. However, due to the small size and lens limitations of the smartphone cameras, we commonly find artifacts or degradation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Marcos V. Conde , Florin Vasluianu , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Radu Timofte

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) task aims at improving contrast while restoring details and textures for images captured in low-light conditions. HVI color space has made significant progress in this task by enabling precise decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xin Xu , Hao Liu , Wei Liu , Wei Wang , Jiayi Wu , Kui Jiang

Low-light image enhancement tasks demand an appropriate balance among brightness, color, and illumination. While existing methods often focus on one aspect of the image without considering how to pay attention to this balance, which will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Nana Yu , Hong Shi , Yahong Han

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) has advanced with the surge in phone photography demand, yet many existing methods neglect compression, a crucial concern for resource-constrained phone photography. Most LLIE methods overlook this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Wei Wang , Zhi Jin

Enhancing a low-light noisy RAW image into a well-exposed and clean sRGB image is a significant challenge for modern digital cameras. Prior approaches have difficulties in recovering fine-grained details and true colors of the scene under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Qiang Wen , Zhefan Rao , Yazhou Xing , Qifeng Chen

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of low-light image and video enhancement, addressing two primary challenges in the field. The first challenge is the prevalence of mixed over-/under-exposed images, which are not adequately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Shen Zheng , Yiling Ma , Jinqian Pan , Changjie Lu , Gaurav Gupta

Low-resolution image representation is a special form of sparse representation that retains only low-frequency information while discarding high-frequency components. This property reduces storage and transmission costs and benefits various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chenglong Bao , Tongyao Pang , Zuowei Shen , Dihan Zheng , Yihang Zou

Low-light image enhancement exhibits an ill-posed nature, as a given image may have many enhanced versions, yet recent studies focus on building a deterministic mapping from input to an enhanced version. In contrast, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Xiaopeng Sun , Muxingzi Li , Tianyu He , Lubin Fan

Existing low-light image enhancement (LIE) methods have achieved noteworthy success in solving synthetic distortions, yet they often fall short in practical applications. The limitations arise from two inherent challenges in real-world LIE:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Yunlong Lin , Tian Ye , Sixiang Chen , Zhenqi Fu , Yingying Wang , Wenhao Chai , Zhaohu Xing , Lei Zhu , Xinghao Ding

Low-light image enhancement is a challenging low-level computer vision task because after we enhance the brightness of the image, we have to deal with amplified noise, color distortion, detail loss, blurred edges, shadow blocks and halo…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Xinxu Wei , Xianshi Zhang , Shisen Wang , Yanlin Huang , Yongjie Li

Event camera has recently received much attention for low-light image enhancement (LIE) thanks to their distinct advantages, such as high dynamic range. However, current research is prohibitively restricted by the lack of large-scale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Guoqiang Liang , Kanghao Chen , Hangyu Li , Yunfan Lu , Lin Wang

Images captured in low-light conditions usually suffer from very low contrast, which increases the difficulty of subsequent computer vision tasks in a great extent. In this paper, a low-light image enhancement model based on convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Liang Shen , Zihan Yue , Fan Feng , Quan Chen , Shihao Liu , Jie Ma

Real-world low-light images captured by imaging devices suffer from poor visibility and require a domain-specific enhancement to produce artifact-free outputs that reveal details. In this paper, we propose an unpaired low-light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Aupendu Kar , Sobhan K. Dhara , Debashis Sen , Prabir K. Biswas

Low-light video enhancement (LLVE) is an important yet challenging task with many applications such as photographing and autonomous driving. Unlike single image low-light enhancement, most LLVE methods utilize temporal information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Lin Liu , Junfeng An , Jianzhuang Liu , Shanxin Yuan , Xiangyu Chen , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

Under extreme low-light conditions, frame-based cameras suffer from severe detail loss due to limited dynamic range. Recent studies have introduced event cameras for event-guided low-light image enhancement. However, existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhanwen Liu , Huanna Song , Yang Wang , Nan Yang , Weiping Ding , Yisheng An

Existing low-light image enhancement (LLIE) and joint LLIE and deblurring (LLIE-deblur) models have made strides in addressing predefined degradations, yet they are often constrained by dynamically coupled degradations. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Rui Xu , Yuzhen Niu , Yuezhou Li , Huangbiao Xu , Wenxi Liu , Yuzhong Chen

Two difficulties here make low-light image enhancement a challenging task; firstly, it needs to consider not only luminance restoration but also image contrast, image denoising and color distortion issues simultaneously. Second, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Wenchao Li , Bangshu Xiong , Qiaofeng Ou , Xiaoyun Long , Jinhao Zhu , Jiabao Chen , Shuyuan Wen

Synthesizing normal-light novel views from low-light multiview images is an important yet challenging task, given the low visibility and high ISO noise present in the input images. Existing low-light enhancement methods often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Ze Li , Feng Zhang , Xiatian Zhu , Meng Zhang , Yanghong Zhou , P. Y. Mok

Intrinsic image decomposition is the process of recovering the image formation components (reflectance and shading) from an image. Previous methods employ either explicit priors to constrain the problem or implicit constraints as formulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Partha Das , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers