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Enhancing the quality of low-light images plays a very important role in many image processing and multimedia applications. In recent years, a variety of deep learning techniques have been developed to address this challenging task. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-13 Long Ma , Risheng Liu , Jiaao Zhang , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

Real-world low-light images often suffer from complex degradations such as local overexposure, low brightness, noise, and uneven illumination. Supervised methods tend to overfit to specific scenarios, while unsupervised methods, though…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Huaqiu Li , Xiaowan Hu , Haoqian Wang

Low-light images often suffer from noise and color distortion. Object detection, semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, and other tasks are challenging when working with low-light images because of image noise and chromatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xiaochun Lei , Weiliang Mai , Junlin Xie , He Liu , Zetao Jiang , Zhaoting Gong , Chang Lu , Linjun Lu

The visibility of real-world images is often limited by both low-light and low-resolution, however, these issues are only addressed in the literature through Low-Light Enhancement (LLE) and Super- Resolution (SR) methods. Admittedly, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Ziyu Yue , Jiaxin Gao , Sihan Xie , Yang Liu , Zhixun Su

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is a highly challenging task due to the complexity of underwater environment and the diversity of underwater image degradation. Due to the application of deep learning, current UIE methods have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yi Liu , Qiuping Jiang , Xinyi Wang , Ting Luo , Jingchun Zhou

Low-light image enhancement remains a challenging problem due to severe noise, color distortion, contrast degradation, and loss of structural details under insufficient illumination. Existing methods typically apply uniform enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Bibhabasu Debnath , Sahana Ray , Sanjay Ghosh

Imaging in low light is challenging due to low photon count and low SNR. Short-exposure images suffer from noise, while long exposure can induce blur and is often impractical. A variety of denoising, deblurring, and enhancement techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Chen Chen , Qifeng Chen , Jia Xu , Vladlen Koltun

Images captured underwater often suffer from suboptimal illumination settings that can hide important visual features, reducing their quality. We present a novel single-image low-light underwater image enhancer, L^2UWE, that builds on our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Tunai Porto Marques , Alexandra Branzan Albu

We consider the generic deep image enhancement problem where an input image is transformed into a perceptually better-looking image. Recent methods for image enhancement consider the problem by performing style transfer and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Indra Deep Mastan , Shanmuganathan Raman

Nighttime photography encounters escalating challenges in extremely low-light conditions, primarily attributable to the ultra-low signal-to-noise ratio. For real-world deployment, a practical solution must not only produce visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Jiazhang Zheng , Lei Li , Qiuping Liao , Cheng Li , Li Li , Yangxing Liu

In nighttime conditions, high noise levels and bright illumination sources degrade image quality, making low-light image enhancement challenging. Thermal images provide complementary information, offering richer textures and structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Raman Jha , Adithya Lenka , Mani Ramanagopal , Aswin Sankaranarayanan , Kaushik Mitra

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

Image compression at extremely low bitrates (below 0.1 bits per pixel (bpp)) is a significant challenge due to substantial information loss. In this work, we propose a novel two-stage extreme image compression framework that exploits the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Zhiyuan Li , Yanhui Zhou , Hao Wei , Chenyang Ge , Jingwen Jiang

Image degradation caused by complex lighting conditions such as low-light and backlit scenarios is commonly encountered in real-world environments, significantly affecting image quality and downstream vision tasks. Most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ziang Wang , Xiaoqin Wang , Dingyi Wang , Qiang Li , Shushan Qiao

In the current era of mobile internet, Lightweight Low-Light Image Enhancement (L3IE) is critical for mobile devices, which faces a persistent trade-off between visual quality and model compactness. While recent methods employ disentangling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Hailong Yan , Shice Liu , Xiangtao Zhang , Lujian Yao , Fengxiang Yang , Jinwei Chen , Bo Li

Low light very likely leads to the degradation of an image's quality and even causes visual task failures. Existing image enhancement technologies are prone to overenhancement, color distortion or time consumption, and their adaptability is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Xiaozhou Lei , Zixiang Fei , Wenju Zhou , Huiyu Zhou , Minrui Fei

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

We present a novel dehazing and low-light enhancement method based on an illumination map that is accurately estimated by a convolutional neural network (CNN). In this paper, the illumination map is used as a component for three different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Guisik Kim , Junseok Kwon

Event-based low-light image enhancement (LIE) methods mainly focus on incorporating high dynamic range (HDR) information from events while overlooking the essential global illumination in images and the inherent noise sensitivity of event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Senyan Xu , Zhijing Sun , Kean Liu , Xin Lu , Ruixuan Jiang , Mingyang Huang , Xueyang Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha

In this paper, we propose a physics-inspired contrastive learning paradigm for low-light enhancement, called PIE. PIE primarily addresses three issues: (i) To resolve the problem of existing learning-based methods often training a LLE model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Dong Liang , Zhengyan Xu , Ling Li , Mingqiang Wei , Songcan Chen