Foundation Models Defining a New Era in Vision: a Survey and Outlook

M Awais, M Naseer, S Khan, RM Anwer… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vision systems that see and reason about the compositional nature of visual scenes are
fundamental to understanding our world. The complex relations between objects and their …

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 …

Sequential modeling enables scalable learning for large vision models

Y Bai, X Geng, K Mangalam, A Bar… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We introduce a novel sequential modeling approach which enables learning a Large Vision
Model (LVM) without making use of any linguistic data. To do this we define a common …

Images speak in images: A generalist painter for in-context visual learning

X Wang, W Wang, Y Cao, C Shen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In-context learning, as a new paradigm in NLP, allows the model to rapidly adapt to various
tasks with only a handful of prompts and examples. But in computer vision, the difficulties for …

Uretinex-net: Retinex-based deep unfolding network for low-light image enhancement

W Wu, J Weng, P Zhang, X Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Retinex model-based methods have shown to be effective in layer-wise manipulation with
well-designed priors for low-light image enhancement. However, the commonly used hand …

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 …

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 …

Maxim: Multi-axis mlp for image processing

Z Tu, H Talebi, H Zhang, F Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Recent progress on Transformers and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) models provide new
network architectural designs for computer vision tasks. Although these models proved to be …