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 …

Histogram equalization variants as optimization problems: a review

KG Dhal, A Das, S Ray, J Gálvez, S Das - Archives of Computational …, 2021 - Springer
In the consumer electronics field, the main challenge in image processing is to preserve the
original brightness. Histogram Equalization (HE) is one of the simplest and widely used …

A deep learning based image enhancement approach for autonomous driving at night

G Li, Y Yang, X Qu, D Cao, K Li - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Images of road scenes in low-light situations are lack of details which could increase crash
risk of connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). Therefore, an effective and efficient image …

A bio-inspired multi-exposure fusion framework for low-light image enhancement

Z Ying, G Li, W Gao - arxiv preprint arxiv:1711.00591, 2017 - arxiv.org
Low-light images are not conducive to human observation and computer vision algorithms
due to their low visibility. Although many image enhancement techniques have been …

A two‐stream deep neural network‐based intelligent system for complex skin cancer types classification

M Attique Khan, M Sharif, T Akram… - … Journal of Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Medical imaging systems installed in different hospitals and labs generate images in bulk,
which could support medics to analyze infections or injuries. Manual inspection becomes …

A new low-light image enhancement algorithm using camera response model

Z Ying, G Li, Y Ren, R Wang… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Low-light images are not conducive to human observation and computer vision algorithms
due to their low visibility. To solve this problem, many image enhancement techniques have …

Low-light image enhancement using variational optimization-based retinex model

S Park, S Yu, B Moon, S Ko… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an optimization-based low-light image enhancement method using
spatially adaptive l 2-norm based Retinex model. The proposed method adaptively enforces …

A dynamic histogram equalization for image contrast enhancement

M Abdullah-Al-Wadud, MH Kabir… - IEEE transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a smart contrast enhancement technique based on conventional histogram
equalization (HE) algorithm is proposed. This dynamic histogram equalization (DHE) …

Image enhancement using exposure based sub image histogram equalization

K Singh, R Kapoor - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel Exposure based Sub-Image Histogram Equalization (ESIHE)
method for contrast enhancement for low exposure gray scale image. Exposure thresholds …

Contextual and variational contrast enhancement

T Celik, T Tjahjadi - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an algorithm that enhances the contrast of an input image using
interpixel contextual information. The algorithm uses a 2-D histogram of the input image …