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 …

Contrast enhancement of brightness-distorted images by improved adaptive gamma correction

G Cao, L Huang, H Tian, X Huang, Y Wang… - Computers & Electrical …, 2018 - Elsevier
As an efficient image contrast enhancement (CE) tool, adaptive gamma correction (AGC)
was previously proposed by relating gamma parameter with cumulative distribution function …

Global and local enhancement networks for paired and unpaired image enhancement

HU Kim, YJ Koh, CS Kim - Computer Vision–ECCV 2020: 16th European …, 2020 - Springer
A novel approach for paired and unpaired image enhancement is proposed in this work.
First, we develop global enhancement network (GEN) and local enhancement network …

PieNet: Personalized image enhancement network

HU Kim, YJ Koh, CS Kim - Computer Vision–ECCV 2020: 16th European …, 2020 - Springer
Image enhancement is an inherently subjective process since people have diverse
preferences for image aesthetics. However, most enhancement techniques pay less …

Quality-guided skin tone enhancement for portrait photography

S Gao, H Duan, X Li, K Fu, Y Peng, Q Xu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, learning-based color and tone enhancement methods for photos have
become increasingly popular. However, most learning-based image enhancement methods …

No-reference quality metric for contrast-distorted image based on gradient domain and HSV space

W Lyu, W Lu, M Ma - Journal of Visual Communication and Image …, 2020 - Elsevier
Image quality assessment (IQA) plays an important role in digital image forensics. Due to the
occurrence of contrast distortion during image acquisition and manipulation, IQA for contrast …

An optimization-based approach to gamma correction parameter estimation for low-light image enhancement

I Jeong, C Lee - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2021 - Springer
We propose an efficient low-light image enhancement algorithm based on an optimization-
based approach for gamma correction parameter estimation. We first separate an input color …

Low-light image enhancement with geometrical sparse representation

J Tan, T Zhang, L Zhao, D Huang, Z Zhang - Applied Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) can improve the visibility of low-light images. Low-light
images exhibit a series of visual degradation, such as decreased visibility, low contrast, and …

[HTML][HTML] Local entropy maximization based image fusion for contrast enhancement of mammogram

M Pawar, S Talbar - Journal of King Saud University-Computer and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Early detection of breast cancer can enhance the chances of survival. Contrast
enhancement provides improved visual information that can be used for accurate …

A new self-reference image decomposition algorithm for strip steel surface defect detection

K Liu, N Luo, A Li, Y Tian, H Sajid… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic vision-based defect detection on the steel surface is a challenging task due to
miscellaneous patterns of defects, low contrast between the defect and the background, and …