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Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) is crucial for improving both human perception and computer vision tasks. This paper addresses two challenges in zero-reference LLIE: obtaining perceptually 'good' images using the Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito

Images acquired in low-light environments present significant obstacles for computer vision systems and human perception, especially for applications requiring accurate object recognition and scene analysis. Such images typically manifest…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Bibhabasu Debnath , Sahana Ray , Sanjay Ghosh

We propose a novel unsupervised backlit image enhancement method, abbreviated as CLIP-LIT, by exploring the potential of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) for pixel-level image enhancement. We show that the open-world CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Zhexin Liang , Chongyi Li , Shangchen Zhou , Ruicheng Feng , Chen Change Loy

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

Few-shot semantic segmentation task aims at performing segmentation in query images with a few annotated support samples. Currently, few-shot segmentation methods mainly focus on leveraging foreground information without fully utilizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Qinglong Cao , Yuntian Chen , Xiwen Yao , Junwei Han

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

Deep learning-based methods for low-light image enhancement typically require enormous paired training data, which are impractical to capture in real-world scenarios. Recently, unsupervised approaches have been explored to eliminate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Feng Zhang , Yuanjie Shao , Yishi Sun , Kai Zhu , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

Supervised networks address the task of low-light enhancement using paired images. However, collecting a wide variety of low-light/clean paired images is tedious as the scene needs to remain static during imaging. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Praveen Kandula , Maitreya Suin , A. N. Rajagopalan

In Masked Image Modeling (MIM), two primary methods exist: Pixel MIM and Latent MIM, each utilizing different reconstruction targets, raw pixels and latent representations, respectively. Pixel MIM tends to capture low-level visual details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Junmyeong Lee , Eui Jun Hwang , Sukmin Cho , Jong C. Park

In this paper, we propose a novel image denoising algorithm exploiting features from both spatial as well as transformed domain. We implement intensity-invariance based improved grouping for collaborative support-agnostic sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Muzammil Behzad

Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has been widely applied to 3D imaging in challenging scenarios. However, limited signal photon counts and high noises in the collected data have posed great challenges for predicting the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Gongxin Yao , Yiwei Chen , Yong Liu , Xiaomin Hu , Yu Pan

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) investigates how to improve illumination and produce normal-light images. The majority of existing methods improve low-light images via a global and uniform manner, without taking into account the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Yuhui Wu , Chen Pan , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Jiwei Wei , Chongyi Li , Heng Tao Shen

Image restoration, which aims to recover high-quality images from their corrupted counterparts, often faces the challenge of being an ill-posed problem that allows multiple solutions for a single input. However, most deep learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Wenyi Lian , Wenjing Lian , Ziwei Luo

Perceptual image compression has shown strong potential for producing visually appealing results at low bitrates, surpassing classical standards and pixel-wise distortion-oriented neural methods. However, existing methods typically improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Hao Wei , Yanhui Zhou , Yiwen Jia , Chenyang Ge , Saeed Anwar , Ajmal Mian

There has been significant progress in Masked Image Modeling (MIM). Existing MIM methods can be broadly categorized into two groups based on the reconstruction target: pixel-based and tokenizer-based approaches. The former offers a simpler…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yuan Liu , Songyang Zhang , Jiacheng Chen , Zhaohui Yu , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin

Pixel diffusion generates images directly in pixel space, avoiding the VAE artifacts and representational bottlenecks of two-stage latent diffusion. Recent JiT further simplifies pixel diffusion with x-prediction, where the model predicts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zehong Ma , Ruihan Xu , Shiliang Zhang

Low-light image enhancement is a classical computer vision problem aiming to recover normal-exposure images from low-light images. However, convolutional neural networks commonly used in this field are good at sampling low-frequency local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yunliang Zhuang , Zhuoran Zheng , Chen Lyu

Photography during night or in dark conditions typically suffers from noise, low light and blurring issues due to the dim environment and the common use of long exposure. Although Deblurring and Low-light Image Enhancement (LLIE) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Daniel Feijoo , Juan C. Benito , Alvaro Garcia , Marcos V. Conde

Atomic resolution STEM images often suffer from noise due to low electron doses and instrument imperfections, hence it is challenging to obtain critical structural details required for material analysis. To address the problem, we propose a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-18 Z. Awan , J. Shabeer , U. Saleem , S. Mehmood , T. Qadeer

In multimedia understanding tasks, corrupted samples pose a critical challenge, because when fed to machine learning models they lead to performance degradation. In the past, three groups of approaches have been proposed to handle noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Francesco Barbato , Umberto Michieli , Mehmet Kerim Yucel , Pietro Zanuttigh , Mete Ozay