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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 suffer from severe noise and low illumination. Current deep learning models that are trained with real-world images have excellent noise reduction, but a ratio parameter must be chosen manually to complete the enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Qingxu Fu , Xiaoguang Di , Yu Zhang

Intrinsic image decomposition (IID) is the task that decomposes a natural image into albedo and shade. While IID is typically solved through supervised learning methods, it is not ideal due to the difficulty in observing ground truth albedo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Shogo Sato , Yasuhiro Yao , Taiga Yoshida , Takuhiro Kaneko , Shingo Ando , Jun Shimamura

Deep learning-based low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a task of leveraging deep neural networks to enhance the image illumination while keeping the image content unchanged. From the perspective of training data, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Zhao Zhang , Suiyi Zhao , Xiaojie Jin , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang , Shuicheng Yan , Meng Wang

Current methods for restoring underexposed images typically rely on supervised learning with paired underexposed and well-illuminated images. However, collecting such datasets is often impractical in real-world scenarios. Moreover, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Hailong Yan , Junjian Huang , Tingwen Huang

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

Multispectral imaging (MSI) captures data across multiple spectral bands, offering enhanced informational depth compared to standard RGB imaging and benefiting diverse fields such as agriculture, medical diagnostics, and industrial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-29 Muchen Zhu , Baolei Liu , Yao Wang , Linjun Zhai , Jiaqi Song , Nana Liu , Zhaohua Yang , Lei Ding , Fan Wang

While invaluable for many computer vision applications, decomposing a natural image into intrinsic reflectance and shading layers represents a challenging, underdetermined inverse problem. As opposed to strict reliance on conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Qingnan Fan , Jiaolong Yang , Gang Hua , Baoquan Chen , David Wipf

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has become an important technique for optical super-resolution imaging because it allows a doubling of image resolution at speeds compatible for live-cell imaging. However, the reconstruction of SIM…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-26 Charles N. Christensen , Edward N. Ward , Pietro Lio , Clemens F. Kaminski

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) is a pivotal technique for dynamic subcellular imaging in live cells. Conventional SIM reconstruction algorithms depend on accurately estimating the illumination pattern and can introduce artefacts…

Images captured in low-light environment often suffer from complex degradation. Simply adjusting light would inevitably result in burst of hidden noise and color distortion. To seek results with satisfied lighting, cleanliness, and realism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Qiming Hu , Xiaojie Guo

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

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

Super-resolution tasks oriented to images captured in ultra-dark environments is a practical yet challenging problem that has received little attention. Due to uneven illumination and low signal-to-noise ratio in dark environments, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Jiaxin Gao , Ziyu Yue , Yaohua Liu , Sihan Xie , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Images captured under low-light conditions often suffer from (partially) poor visibility. Besides unsatisfactory lightings, multiple types of degradations, such as noise and color distortion due to the limited quality of cameras, hide in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yonghua Zhang , Jiawan Zhang , Xiaojie Guo

Current methods for extracting intrinsic image components, such as reflectance and shading, primarily rely on statistical priors. These methods focus mainly on simple synthetic scenes and isolated objects and struggle to perform well on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yixiong Yang , Shilin Hu , Haoyu Wu , Ramon Baldrich , Dimitris Samaras , Maria Vanrell

Contrast enhancement and noise removal are coupled problems for low-light image enhancement. The existing Retinex based methods do not take the coupling relation into consideration, resulting in under or over-smoothing of the enhanced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Yang Wang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jing Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Wei Zhang , Feng Wu

Low light conditions not only degrade human visual experience, but also reduce the performance of downstream machine analytics. Although many works have been designed for low-light enhancement or domain adaptive machine analytics, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Wenjing Wang , Zhengbo Xu , Haofeng Huang , Jiaying Liu

Due to the nature of enhancement--the absence of paired ground-truth information, high-level vision tasks have been recently employed to evaluate the performance of low-light image enhancement. A widely-used manner is to see how accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mingjia Li , Hao Zhao , Xiaojie Guo

Single-Pixel Imaging (SPI) enables the reconstruction of objects using a single detector through sequential illuminations with structured light patterns. The choice of illumination patterns is critical, particularly in highly undersampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Serban Cristian Tudosie , Alexander Denker , Zeljko Kereta , Simon Arridge