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 …

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 …

A survey on image enhancement for Low-light images

J Guo, J Ma, ÁF García-Fernández, Y Zhang, H Liang - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
In real scenes, due to the problems of low light and unsuitable views, the images often
exhibit a variety of degradations, such as low contrast, color distortion, and noise. These …

Fourmer: An efficient global modeling paradigm for image restoration

M Zhou, J Huang, CL Guo, C Li - … conference on machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Global modeling-based image restoration frameworks have become popular. However, they
often require a high memory footprint and do not consider task-specific degradation. Our …

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 …

Low-light image enhancement with normalizing flow

Y Wang, R Wan, W Yang, H Li, LP Chau… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
To enhance low-light images to normally-exposed ones is highly ill-posed, namely that the
map** relationship between them is one-to-many. Previous works based on the pixel-wise …

Learning to enhance low-light image via zero-reference deep curve estimation

C Li, C Guo, CC Loy - IEEE transactions on pattern analysis …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel method, Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation (Zero-DCE),
which formulates light enhancement as a task of image-specific curve estimation with a deep …

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 …