Survey of natural image enhancement techniques: Classification, evaluation, challenges, and perspectives

X Liu, M Pedersen, R Wang - Digital Signal Processing, 2022 - Elsevier
Image enhancement is an essential technique used in many imaging applications. The main
motivation of image enhancement is processing an image to be more suitable for specific …

Preynet: Preying on camouflaged objects

M Zhang, S Xu, Y Piao, D Shi, S Lin, H Lu - Proceedings of the 30th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Species often adopt various camouflage strategies to be seamlessly blended into the
surroundings for self-protection. To figure out the concealment, predators have evolved …

Self-supervised low-light image enhancement using discrepant untrained network priors

J Liang, Y Xu, Y Quan, B Shi, H Ji - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a deep learning method for low-light image enhancement, which
exploits the generation capability of Neural Networks (NNs) while requiring no training …

UIF: An objective quality assessment for underwater image enhancement

Y Zheng, W Chen, R Lin, T Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to complex and volatile lighting environment, underwater imaging can be readily
impaired by light scattering, warping, and noises. To improve the visual quality, Underwater …

Retinex-based variational framework for low-light image enhancement and denoising

Q Ma, Y Wang, T Zeng - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-light image enhancement is an important task in the domain of computer vision. Images
taken under insufficient lighting conditions manifest low visibility and unknown noises which …

Low-light homomorphic filtering network for integrating image enhancement and classification

R Al Sobbahi, J Tekli - Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2022 - Elsevier
Low-light image (LLI) enhancement techniques have recently demonstrated remarkable
progress especially with the use of deep learning approaches. However, most existing …

Robust dual-modal image quality assessment aware deep learning network for traffic targets detection of autonomous vehicles

K Geng, G Dong, W Huang - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2022 - Springer
The multi-spectral image pairs composed of LIDAR and RGB images demonstrates more
effective detection performance in complex traffic environments, such as low illumination …

State of the art of quality assessment of facial images

J Merkle, C Rathgeb, B Tams, DP Lou, A Dörsch… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The goal of the project" Facial Metrics for EES" is to develop, implement and publish an
open source algorithm for the quality assessment of facial images (OFIQ) for face …

[HTML][HTML] Black-box image deblurring and defiltering

AG Belyaev, PA Fayolle - Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2022 - Elsevier
Given an image filter, defiltering refers to the problem of recovering an original image from
its filtered version, assuming that the internal structure of the filter is not known. In this paper …

DFT-based no-reference quality assessment of blurred images

MA Baig, AA Moinuddin, E Khan… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, blind image quality assessment (IQA) of Gaussian blurred images based on
Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is proposed. The proposed work is based on the fact that if …