A deep journey into image enhancement: A survey of current and emerging trends

DC Lepcha, B Goyal, A Dogra, KP Sharma, DN Gupta - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
Image captured under poor-illumination conditions often display attributes of having poor
contrasts, low brightness, a narrow gray range, colour distortions and considerable …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Deep fourier-based exposure correction network with spatial-frequency interaction

J Huang, Y Liu, F Zhao, K Yan, J Zhang… - … on Computer Vision, 2022 - Springer
Images captured under incorrect exposures unavoidably suffer from mixed degradations of
lightness and structures. Most existing deep learning-based exposure correction methods …