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 …

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 …

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 …

Ultra-high-definition low-light image enhancement: A benchmark and transformer-based method

T Wang, K Zhang, T Shen, W Luo, B Stenger… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
As the quality of optical sensors improves, there is a need for processing large-scale
images. In particular, the ability of devices to capture ultra-high definition (UHD) images and …

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 …

Diff-retinex: Rethinking low-light image enhancement with a generative diffusion model

X Yi, H Xu, H Zhang, L Tang… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper, we rethink the low-light image enhancement task and propose a physically
explainable and generative diffusion model for low-light image enhancement, termed as Diff …

Low-light image enhancement with wavelet-based diffusion models

H Jiang, A Luo, H Fan, S Han, S Liu - ACM Transactions on Graphics …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Diffusion models have achieved promising results in image restoration tasks, yet suffer from
time-consuming, excessive computational resource consumption, and unstable restoration …

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 …

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 …

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 …