An experiment-based review of low-light image enhancement methods

W Wang, X Wu, X Yuan, Z Gao - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Images captured under poor illumination conditions often exhibit characteristics such as low
brightness, low contrast, a narrow gray range, and color distortion, as well as considerable …

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 …

SNR-aware low-light image enhancement

X Xu, R Wang, CW Fu, J Jia - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper presents a new solution for low-light image enhancement by collectively
exploiting Signal-to-Noise-Ratio-aware transformers and convolutional models to …

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 …

Diff-retinex: Rethinking low-light image enhancement with a generative diffusion model

X Yi, H Xu, H Zhang, L Tang… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper, we rethink the low-light image enhancement task and propose a physically
explainable and generative diffusion model for low-light image enhancement, termed as Diff …

Learning a simple low-light image enhancer from paired low-light instances

Z Fu, Y Yang, X Tu, Y Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Low-light Image Enhancement (LIE) aims at improving contrast and restoring
details for images captured in low-light conditions. Most of the previous LIE algorithms adjust …

Beyond brightening low-light images

Y Zhang, X Guo, J Ma, W Liu, J Zhang - International Journal of Computer …, 2021 - Springer
Images captured under low-light conditions often suffer from (partially) poor visibility.
Besides unsatisfactory lightings, multiple types of degradation, such as noise and color …

Sparse gradient regularized deep retinex network for robust low-light image enhancement

W Yang, W Wang, H Huang, S Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the absence of a desirable objective for low-light image enhancement, previous data-
driven methods may provide undesirable enhanced results including amplified noise …

From fidelity to perceptual quality: A semi-supervised approach for low-light image enhancement

W Yang, S Wang, Y Fang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Under-exposure introduces a series of visual degradation, ie decreased visibility, intensive
noise, and biased color, etc. To address these problems, we propose a novel semi …

RetinexDIP: A unified deep framework for low-light image enhancement

Z Zhao, B Xiong, L Wang, Q Ou, L Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-light images suffer from low contrast and unclear details, which not only reduces the
available information for humans but limits the application of computer vision algorithms …