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 …

No-reference quality assessment for low-light image enhancement: Subjective and objective methods

W Lin, Y Wu, L Xu, W Chen, T Zhao, H Wei - Displays, 2023 - Elsevier
No-Reference (NR) quality assessment is a crucial approach for evaluating the quality of low-
light enhanced images, as it is often difficult to acquire high-quality reference images in …

[HTML][HTML] A survey of deep learning-based low-light image enhancement

Z Tian, P Qu, J Li, Y Sun, G Li, Z Liang, W Zhang - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Images captured under poor lighting conditions often suffer from low brightness, low
contrast, color distortion, and noise. The function of low-light image enhancement is to …

Perceptual quality assessment of low-light image enhancement

G Zhai, W Sun, X Min, J Zhou - ACM Transactions on Multimedia …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Low-light image enhancement algorithms (LIEA) can light up images captured in dark or
back-lighting conditions. However, LIEA may introduce various distortions such as structure …

Low-light image enhancement using Gaussian Process for features retrieval

YP Loh, X Liang, CS Chan - Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2019 - Elsevier
Low-light is a challenging environment for image processing and computer vision tasks,
either in contrast enhancement for better visibility and quality, or application oriented tasks …

Low-light image enhancement using hybrid deep-learning and mixed-norm loss functions

JG Oh, MC Hong - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study introduces a low-light image enhancement method using a hybrid deep-learning
network and mixed-norm loss functions, in which the network consists of a decomposition …

A no-reference evaluation metric for low-light image enhancement

Z Zhang, W Sun, X Min, W Zhu, T Wang… - … on Multimedia and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-light images, which are usually taken in dark or back-lighting conditions, are hard to
perceive due to the low visibility and low contrast. To improve viewers' Quality of Experience …

Low-light image enhancement with multi-scale attention and frequency-domain optimization

Z He, W Ran, S Liu, K Li, J Lu, C Xie… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the perceptual quality of images captured in
conditions of insufficient illumination. However, such images are often characterized by low …

LiCENt: Low-light image enhancement using the light channel of HSL

A Garg, XW Pan, LR Dung - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Images captured in low-brightness environments often lead to poor visibility and exhibit
artifacts such as low brightness, low contrast, and color distortion. These artifacts not only …

Multi-branch and progressive network for low-light image enhancement

K Zhang, C Yuan, J Li, X Gao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-light images incur several complicated degradation factors such as poor brightness,
low contrast, color degradation, and noise. Most previous deep learning-based approaches …