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 …

Comparing deep learning models for low-light natural scene image enhancement and their impact on object detection and classification: Overview, empirical …

R Al Sobbahi, J Tekli - Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2022 - Elsevier
Low-light image (LLI) enhancement is an important image processing task that aims at
improving the illumination of images taken under low-light conditions. Recently, a …

Uretinex-net: Retinex-based deep unfolding network for low-light image enhancement

W Wu, J Weng, P Zhang, X Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Retinex model-based methods have shown to be effective in layer-wise manipulation with
well-designed priors for low-light image enhancement. However, the commonly used hand …

Toward fast, flexible, and robust low-light image enhancement

L Ma, T Ma, R Liu, X Fan, Z Luo - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Existing low-light image enhancement techniques are mostly not only difficult to deal with
both visual quality and computational efficiency but also commonly invalid in unknown …

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 …

Generative diffusion prior for unified image restoration and enhancement

B Fei, Z Lyu, L Pan, J Zhang, W Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Existing image restoration methods mostly leverage the posterior distribution of natural
images. However, they often assume known degradation and also require supervised …

Retinexformer: One-stage retinex-based transformer for low-light image enhancement

Y Cai, H Bian, J Lin, H Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
When enhancing low-light images, many deep learning algorithms are based on the Retinex
theory. However, the Retinex model does not consider the corruptions hidden in the dark or …

DIVFusion: Darkness-free infrared and visible image fusion

L Tang, X Xiang, H Zhang, M Gong, J Ma - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
As a vital image enhancement technology, infrared and visible image fusion aims to
generate high-quality fused images with salient targets and abundant texture in extreme …

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 …

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 …