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 …

[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 …

Retinexformer: One-stage retinex-based transformer for low-light image enhancement

Y Cai, H Bian, J Lin, H Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
When enhancing low-light images, many deep learning algorithms are based on the Retinex
theory. However, the Retinex model does not consider the corruptions hidden in the dark or …

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 …

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 …

Learning semantic-aware knowledge guidance for low-light image enhancement

Y Wu, C Pan, G Wang, Y Yang, J Wei… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) investigates how to improve illumination and produce
normal-light images. The majority of existing methods improve low-light images via a global …

Low-light image enhancement via structure modeling and guidance

X Xu, R Wang, J Lu - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper proposes a new framework for low-light image enhancement by simultaneously
conducting the appearance as well as structure modeling. It employs the structural feature to …

Global structure-aware diffusion process for low-light image enhancement

J Hou, Z Zhu, J Hou, H Liu, H Zeng… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
This paper studies a diffusion-based framework to address the low-light image
enhancement problem. To harness the capabilities of diffusion models, we delve into this …

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 …

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 …