A comprehensive experiment-based review of low-light image enhancement methods and benchmarking low-light image quality assessment

MT Rasheed, D Shi, H Khan - Signal Processing, 2023 - Elsevier
Low-light image enhancement is a notoriously challenging problem. Enhancement of low-
light images is intended to increase contrast, adjust the tone, suppress noise, and produce …

[PDF][PDF] The age of synthetic realities: Challenges and opportunities

JP Cardenuto, J Yang, R Padilha… - … on Signal and …, 2023 - nowpublishers.com
Synthetic realities are digital creations or augmentations that are contextually generated
through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods, leveraging extensive amounts of data …

Ultra-high-definition low-light image enhancement: A benchmark and transformer-based method

T Wang, K Zhang, T Shen, W Luo, B Stenger… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
As the quality of optical sensors improves, there is a need for processing large-scale
images. In particular, the ability of devices to capture ultra-high definition (UHD) images and …

[HTML][HTML] Coarse-to-fine video instance segmentation with factorized conditional appearance flows

Z Qin, X Lu, X Nie, D Liu, Y Yin, W Wang - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2023 - ieee-jas.net
We introduce a novel method using a new generative model that automatically learns
effective representations of the target and background appearance to detect, segment and …

Learning semantic-aware knowledge guidance for low-light image enhancement

Y Wu, C Pan, G Wang, Y Yang, J Wei… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
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 …

Low-light image enhancement via structure modeling and guidance

X Xu, R Wang, J Lu - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper proposes a new framework for low-light image enhancement by simultaneously
conducting the appearance as well as structure modeling. It employs the structural feature to …

Shadowdiffusion: When degradation prior meets diffusion model for shadow removal

L Guo, C Wang, W Yang, S Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Recent deep learning methods have achieved promising results in image shadow removal.
However, their restored images still suffer from unsatisfactory boundary artifacts, due to the …

Exposurediffusion: Learning to expose for low-light image enhancement

Y Wang, Y Yu, W Yang, L Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Previous raw image-based low-light image enhancement methods predominantly relied on
feed-forward neural networks to learn deterministic mappings from low-light to normally …

Bijective mapping network for shadow removal

Y Zhu, J Huang, X Fu, F Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Shadow removal, which aims to restore the background in the shadow regions, is
challenging due to the highly ill-posed nature. Most existing deep learning-based methods …

Pyramid diffusion models for low-light image enhancement

D Zhou, Z Yang, Y Yang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.10028, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recovering noise-covered details from low-light images is challenging, and the results given
by previous methods leave room for improvement. Recent diffusion models show realistic …