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Low-light images are commonly encountered in real-world scenarios, and numerous low-light image enhancement (LLIE) methods have been proposed to improve the visibility of these images. The primary goal of LLIE is to generate clearer images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Xu Wu , Zhihui Lai , Zhou Jie , Can Gao , Xianxu Hou , Ya-nan Zhang , Linlin Shen

Prior-based methods for low-light image enhancement often face challenges in extracting available prior information from dim images. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a simple yet effective Retinex model with the proposed edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Chaoyan Huang , Zhongming Wu , Tieyong Zeng

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

This letter introduces LYT-Net, a novel lightweight transformer-based model for low-light image enhancement (LLIE). LYT-Net consists of several layers and detachable blocks, including our novel blocks--Channel-Wise Denoiser (CWD) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 A. Brateanu , R. Balmez , A. Avram , C. Orhei , C. Ancuti

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

We present IllumFlow, a novel framework that synergizes conditional Rectified Flow (CRF) with Retinex theory for low-light image enhancement (LLIE). Our model addresses low-light enhancement through separate optimization of illumination and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Wenyang Wei , Yang yang , Xixi Jia , Xiangchu Feng , Weiwei Wang , Renzhen Wang

This paper introduces Locally Adaptive Neural Context Estimation (LANCE), a novel extension for overfitted image compression (OIC) frameworks like Cool-Chic. While traditional OIC methods rely on lightweight autoregressive networks with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Martin Benjak , Jörn Ostermann

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is an ill-posed inverse problem due to the lack of knowledge of the desired image which is obtained under ideal illumination conditions. Low-light conditions give rise to two main issues: a suppressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Mustafa Ozcan , Hamza Ergezer , Mustafa Ayazaoglu

Low-light image enhancement remains a challenging task, particularly in preserving object edge continuity and fine structural details under extreme illumination degradation. In this paper, we propose a novel model, DRWKV (Detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xuecheng Bai , Yuxiang Wang , Boyu Hu , Qinyuan Jie , Chuanzhi Xu , Kechen Li , Hongru Xiao , Vera Chung

Learning-based methods have made promising advances in low-light RAW image enhancement, while their capability to extremely dark scenes where the environmental illuminance drops as low as 0.0001 lux remains to be explored due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hai Jiang , Binhao Guan , Zhen Liu , Xiaohong Liu , Jian Yu , Zheng Liu , Songchen Han , Shuaicheng Liu

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 Image Enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the perceptual quality of an image captured in low-light conditions. Generally, a low-light image can be divided into lightness and chrominance components. Recent advances in this area…

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

We present Deep Compression Autoencoder (DC-AE), a new family of autoencoder models for accelerating high-resolution diffusion models. Existing autoencoder models have demonstrated impressive results at a moderate spatial compression ratio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Junyu Chen , Han Cai , Junsong Chen , Enze Xie , Shang Yang , Haotian Tang , Muyang Li , Yao Lu , Song Han

Real-time low-light image enhancement on mobile and embedded devices requires models that balance visual quality and computational efficiency. Existing deep learning methods often rely on large networks and labeled datasets, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guangrui Bai , Hailong Yan , Wenhai Liu , Yahui Deng , Erbao Dong

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the illumination and visibility of dark images with lighting noise. To handle the real-world low-light images often with heavy and complex noise, some efforts have been made for joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jiahuan Ren , Zhao Zhang , Richang Hong , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang , Shuicheng Yan

As the quality of optical sensors improves, there is a need for processing large-scale images. In particular, the ability of devices to capture ultra-high definition (UHD) images and video places new demands on the image processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Tianrun Shen , Wenhan Luo , Bjorn Stenger , Tong Lu

This paper studies a diffusion-based framework to address the low-light image enhancement problem. To harness the capabilities of diffusion models, we delve into this intricate process and advocate for the regularization of its inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Jinhui Hou , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou , Hui Liu , Huanqiang Zeng , Hui Yuan

Underwater optical imaging is severely degraded by light absorption, scattering, and color distortion, hindering visibility and accurate image analysis. This paper presents an adaptive enhancement framework integrating illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yuezhe Tian , Kangchen Yao , Xiaoyang Yu

Low light enhancement has gained increasing importance with the rapid development of visual creation and editing. However, most existing enhancement algorithms are designed to homogeneously increase the brightness of images to a pre-defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yuyang Yin , Dejia Xu , Chuangchuang Tan , Ping Liu , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

The computational burden of the iterative sampling process remains a major challenge in diffusion-based Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE). Current acceleration methods, whether training-based or training-free, often lead to significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Guanzhou Lan , Qianli Ma , Yuqi Yang , Zhigang Wang , Dong Wang , Xuelong Li , Bin Zhao