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 …

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 …

Low-light image and video enhancement using deep learning: A survey

C Li, C Guo, L Han, J Jiang, MM Cheng… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the perception or interpretability of
an image captured in an environment with poor illumination. Recent advances in this area …

Retinex-inspired unrolling with cooperative prior architecture search for low-light image enhancement

R Liu, L Ma, J Zhang, X Fan… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Low-light image enhancement plays very important roles in low-level vision areas. Recent
works have built a great deal of deep learning models to address this task. However, these …

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 …

Implicit neural representation for cooperative low-light image enhancement

S Yang, M Ding, Y Wu, Z Li… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The following three factors restrict the application of existing low-light image enhancement
methods: unpredictable brightness degradation and noise, inherent gap between metric …

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 …