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Human vision relies heavily on available ambient light to perceive objects. Low-light scenes pose two distinct challenges: information loss due to insufficient illumination and undesirable brightness shifts. Low-light image enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Shyang-En Weng , Shaou-Gang Miaou , Ricky Christanto

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

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

Recent advances in diffusion-based Large Restoration Models (LRMs) have significantly improved photo-realistic image restoration by leveraging the internal knowledge embedded within model weights. However, existing LRMs often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Hang Guo , Tao Dai , Zhihao Ouyang , Taolin Zhang , Yaohua Zha , Bin Chen , Shu-tao Xia

Low-Light Video Enhancement (LLVE) seeks to restore dynamic or static scenes plagued by severe invisibility and noise. In this paper, we present an innovative video decomposition strategy that incorporates view-independent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xiaogang Xu , Kun Zhou , Tao Hu , Jiafei Wu , Ruixing Wang , Hao Peng , Bei Yu

Low-light stereo image enhancement (LLSIE) is a relatively new task to enhance the quality of visually unpleasant stereo images captured in dark condition. However, current methods achieve inferior performance on detail recovery and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Huan Zheng , Zhao Zhang , Jicong Fan , Richang Hong , Yi Yang , Shuicheng Yan

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

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

Unlike single image task, stereo image enhancement can use another view information, and its key stage is how to perform cross-view feature interaction to extract useful information from another view. However, complex noise in low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Minghua Zhao , Xiangdong Qin , Shuangli Du , Xuefei Bai , Jiahao Lyu , Yiguang Liu

Existing low-light image enhancement (LIE) methods have achieved noteworthy success in solving synthetic distortions, yet they often fall short in practical applications. The limitations arise from two inherent challenges in real-world LIE:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Yunlong Lin , Tian Ye , Sixiang Chen , Zhenqi Fu , Yingying Wang , Wenhao Chai , Zhaohu Xing , Lei Zhu , Xinghao Ding

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) task tends to restore the details and visual information from corrupted low-light images. Most existing methods learn the mapping function between low/normal-light images by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Qingsen Yan , Yixu Feng , Cheng Zhang , Pei Wang , Peng Wu , Wei Dong , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

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 image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the visual quality of images captured under poor lighting conditions. In supervised LLIE research, there exists a significant yet often overlooked inconsistency between the overall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jingxi Liao , Shijie Hao , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

Low-light image enhancement is challenging in that it needs to consider not only brightness recovery but also complex issues like color distortion and noise, which usually hide in the dark. Simply adjusting the brightness of a low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Feifan Lv , Yu Li , Feng Lu

Low-light images suffer from severe noise, contrast loss, and semantic ambiguity, making enhancement a joint problem of denoising and detail recovery. We propose PixIE, a feed-forward pixel-space LLIE framework semantically prompted by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ruirui Lin , Guoxi Huang , David Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Low-Light Enhancement (LLE) is aimed at improving the quality of photos/videos captured under low-light conditions. It is worth noting that most existing LLE methods do not take advantage of geometric modeling. We believe that incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yingqi Lin , Xiaogang Xu , Jiafei Wu , Yan Han , Zhe Liu

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

When capturing images in low-light conditions, the images often suffer from low visibility, which not only degrades the visual aesthetics of images, but also significantly degenerates the performance of many computer vision algorithms. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Lijun Zhang , Xiao Liu , Erik Learned-Miller , Hui Guan

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

Images captured in nighttime scenes suffer from severely reduced visibility, hindering effective content perception. Current low-light image enhancement (LLIE) methods face significant challenges: data-driven end-to-end mapping networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Tongshun Zhang , Pingping Liu , Zhe Zhang , Qiuzhan Zhou