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The usage of digital content (photos and videos) in a variety of applications has increased due to the popularity of multimedia devices. These uses include advertising campaigns, educational resources, and social networking platforms. There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Muhammad Turab

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

In low-light conditions, capturing videos with frame-based cameras often requires long exposure times, resulting in motion blur and reduced visibility. While frame-based motion deblurring and low-light enhancement have been studied, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Taewoo Kim , Jaeseok Jeong , Hoonhee Cho , Yuhwan Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon

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

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

Current deep learning methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) typically rely on pixel-wise mapping learned from paired data. However, these methods often overlook the importance of considering degradation representations, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ziqian Shao , Wenhan Luo , Bjorn Stenger , Tae-Kyun Kim , Wei Liu , Hongdong Li

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

Light field (LF) images containing information for multiple views have numerous applications, which can be severely affected by low-light imaging. Recent learning-based methods for low-light enhancement have some disadvantages, such as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Shansi Zhang , Nan Meng , Edmund Y. Lam

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

Low-light images captured in the real world are inevitably corrupted by sensor noise. Such noise is spatially variant and highly dependent on the underlying pixel intensity, deviating from the oversimplified assumptions in conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zeyuan Chen , Yifan Jiang , Dong Liu , Zhangyang Wang

Image fusion is a crucial technique in the field of computer vision, and its goal is to generate high-quality fused images and improve the performance of downstream tasks. However, existing fusion methods struggle to balance these two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hui Li , Congcong Bian , Zeyang Zhang , Xiaoning Song , Xi Li , Xiao-Jun Wu

Low-light image enhancement (LIE) aims at precisely and efficiently recovering an image degraded in poor illumination environments. Recent advanced LIE techniques are using deep neural networks, which require lots of low-normal light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yunlong Lin , Zhenqi Fu , Kairun Wen , Tian Ye , Sixiang Chen , Ge Meng , Yingying Wang , Yue Huang , Xiaotong Tu , Xinghao Ding

Restoring images from low-light data is a challenging problem. Most existing deep-network based algorithms are designed to be trained with pairwise images. Due to the lack of real-world datasets, they usually perform poorly when generalized…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Yangyang Qu , Chao liu , Yongsheng Ou

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the presence of noise, loss of detail, and poor contrast in images captured under insufficient lighting conditions. Recent methods often rely solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Alexandru Brateanu , Raul Balmez , Ciprian Orhei , Codruta Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti

It is suggested that low-light image enhancement realizes one-to-many mapping since we have different definitions of NORMAL-light given application scenarios or users' aesthetic. However, most existing methods ignore subjectivity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Ya'nan Wang , Zhuqing Jiang , Chang Liu , Kai Li , Aidong Men , Haiying Wang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve illumination while preserving high-quality color and texture. However, existing methods often fail to extract reliable feature representations due to severely degraded pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xu Wu , Zhihui Lai , Xianxu Hou , Jie Zhou , Ya-nan Zhang , Linlin Shen

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve low-illumination images. However, existing methods face two challenges: (1) uncertainty in restoration from diverse brightness degradations; (2) loss of texture and color information caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xu Wu , XianXu Hou , Zhihui Lai , Jie Zhou , Ya-nan Zhang , Witold Pedrycz , Linlin Shen

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the perception or interpretability of an image captured in an environment with poor illumination. Recent advances in this area are dominated by deep learning-based solutions, where many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Chongyi Li , Chunle Guo , Linghao Han , Jun Jiang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jinwei Gu , Chen Change Loy

Images captured under low-light conditions manifest poor visibility, lack contrast and color vividness. Compared to conventional approaches, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well in enhancing images. However, being solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Aditya Arora , Muhammad Haris , Syed Waqas Zamir , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the visibility of images captured in poorly lit environments. Prevalent event-based solutions primarily utilize events triggered by motion, i.e., ''motion events'' to strengthen only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lei Sun , Yuhan Bao , Jiajun Zhai , Jingyun Liang , Yulun Zhang , Kaiwei Wang , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool