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Low-light image enhancement aims to improve an image's visibility while keeping its visual naturalness. Different from existing methods tending to accomplish the relighting task directly by ignoring the fidelity and naturalness recovery, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Kui Jiang , Zhongyuan Wang , Zheng Wang , Chen Chen , Peng Yi , Tao Lu , Chia-Wen Lin

Real-world imaging systems acquire measurements that are degraded by noise, optical aberrations, and other imperfections that make image processing for human viewing and higher-level perception tasks challenging. Conventional cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Steven Diamond , Vincent Sitzmann , Frank Julca-Aguilar , Stephen Boyd , Gordon Wetzstein , Felix Heide

As vision based perception methods are usually built on the normal light assumption, there will be a serious safety issue when deploying them into low light environments. Recently, deep learning based methods have been proposed to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Junjie Hu , Xiyue Guo , Junfeng Chen , Guanqi Liang , Fuqin Deng , Tin lun Lam

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

Current deep learning-based low-light image enhancement methods often struggle with high-resolution images, and fail to meet the practical demands of visual perception across diverse and unseen scenarios. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Tomáš Chobola , Yu Liu , Hanyi Zhang , Julia A. Schnabel , Tingying Peng

This paper introduces a novel lightweight computational framework for enhancing images under low-light conditions, utilizing advanced machine learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional enhancement techniques often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhuoheng Li , Yuheng Pan , Houcheng Yu , Zhiheng Zhang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) techniques attempt to increase the visibility of images captured in low-light scenarios. However, as a result of enhancement, a variety of image degradations such as noise and color bias are revealed.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Savvas Panagiotou , Anna S. Bosman

Multispectral images contain many clues of surface characteristics of the objects, thus can be widely used in many computer vision tasks, e.g., recolorization and segmentation. However, due to the complex illumination and the geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Qian Huang , Weixin Zhu , Yang Zhao , Linsen Chen , Yao Wang , Tao Yue , Xun Cao

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a crucial task in computer vision aimed at enhancing the visual fidelity of images captured under low-illumination conditions. Conventional methods frequently struggle with noise, overexposure, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Namrah Siddiqua , Kim Suneung , Seong-Whan Lee

We present a lightweight two-stage framework for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) that achieves competitive perceptual quality with significantly fewer parameters than existing methods. Our approach combines frozen algorithm-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shimon Murai , Teppei Kurita , Ryuta Satoh , Yusuke Moriuchi

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

In this paper, we tackle the problem of enhancing real-world low-light images with significant noise in an unsupervised fashion. Conventional unsupervised learning-based approaches usually tackle the low-light image enhancement problem…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Wei Xiong , Ding Liu , Xiaohui Shen , Chen Fang , Jiebo Luo

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

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

Enhancing low-light traffic images is crucial for reliable perception in autonomous driving, intelligent transportation, and urban surveillance systems. Nighttime and dimly lit traffic scenes often suffer from poor visibility due to low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Siddiqua Namrah

Removing noise from images is a challenging and fundamental problem in the field of computer vision. Images captured by modern cameras are inevitably degraded by noise which limits the accuracy of any quantitative measurements on those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Nikhil Verma , Deepkamal Kaur , Lydia Chau

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a pervasive yet challenging problem, since: 1) low-light measurements may vary due to different imaging conditions in practice; 2) images can be enlightened subjectively according to diverse preferences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Rongkai Zhang , Lanqing Guo , Siyu Huang , Bihan Wen

Low-rank Deconvolution (LRD) has appeared as a new multi-dimensional representation model that enjoys important efficiency and flexibility properties. In this work we ask ourselves if this analytical model can compete against Deep Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 David Reixach , Josep Ramon Morros

Night images suffer not only from low light, but also from uneven distributions of light. Most existing night visibility enhancement methods focus mainly on enhancing low-light regions. This inevitably leads to over enhancement and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yeying Jin , Wenhan Yang , Robby T. Tan

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