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  • Open Access
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The enhancement of images captured under low-light conditions plays a vitally important role in the area of image processing and can significantly affect the performance of following operations. In recent years, deep learning techniques have been lev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
577 Views
18 Pages

24 September 2025

In low-light environments, light field (LF) images are often affected by various degradation factors, which impair the performance of subsequent visual tasks such as depth estimation. To address these challenges, although numerous light-field low-lig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,648 Views
17 Pages

25 August 2023

Insufficient light, uneven light, backlighting, and other problems lead to poor visibility of the image of an electric power operation site. Most of the current methods directly enhance the low-light image while ignoring local strong light that may a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,314 Views
12 Pages

29 December 2023

Low-light image enhancement is an important task in computer vision. Deep learning-based low-light image enhancement has made significant progress. But the current methods also face the challenge of relying on a wide variety of low-light/normal-light...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,229 Views
23 Pages

Enhancement and Noise Suppression of Single Low-Light Grayscale Images

  • Ting Nie,
  • Xiaofeng Wang,
  • Hongxing Liu,
  • Mingxuan Li,
  • Shenkai Nong,
  • Hangfei Yuan,
  • Yuchen Zhao and
  • Liang Huang

15 July 2022

Low-light images have low contrast and high noise, making them not easily readable. Most existing image-enhancement methods focus on color images. In the present study, an enhancement and denoising algorithm for single low-light grayscale images is p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
22,935 Views
22 Pages

A Survey of Deep Learning-Based Low-Light Image Enhancement

  • Zhen Tian,
  • Peixin Qu,
  • Jielin Li,
  • Yukun Sun,
  • Guohou Li,
  • Zheng Liang and
  • Weidong Zhang

8 September 2023

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 improve the visual effect of such images for subsequent processing. Recently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,146 Views
25 Pages

An Empirical Study on Retinex Methods for Low-Light Image Enhancement

  • Muhammad Tahir Rasheed,
  • Guiyu Guo,
  • Daming Shi,
  • Hufsa Khan and
  • Xiaochun Cheng

15 September 2022

A key part of interpreting, visualizing, and monitoring the surface conditions of remote-sensing images is enhancing the quality of low-light images. It aims to produce higher contrast, noise-suppressed, and better quality images from the low-light v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,959 Views
14 Pages

Improved Retinex-Theory-Based Low-Light Image Enhancement Algorithm

  • Jiarui Wang,
  • Hanjia Wang,
  • Yu Sun and
  • Jie Yang

13 July 2023

Researchers working on image processing have had a hard time handling low-light images due to their low contrast, noise, and brightness. This paper presents an improved method that uses the Retinex theory to enhance low-light images, with a network m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,595 Views
11 Pages

Multi-Feature Guided Low-Light Image Enhancement

  • Hong Liang,
  • Ankang Yu,
  • Mingwen Shao and
  • Yuru Tian

29 May 2021

Due to the characteristics of low signal-to-noise ratio and low contrast, low-light images will have problems such as color distortion, low visibility, and accompanying noise, which will cause the accuracy of the target detection problem to drop or e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,133 Views
31 Pages

6 June 2022

Low-light images are obtained in dark environments or in environments where there is insufficient light. Because of this, low-light images have low intensity values and dimmed features, making it difficult to directly apply computer vision or image r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,343 Views
14 Pages

16 September 2023

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end low-light image enhancement network based on the YCbCr color space to address the issues encountered by existing algorithms when dealing with brightness distortion and noise in the RGB color space. Traditional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,329 Views
17 Pages

Low-Light Image Enhancement Based on Constraint Low-Rank Approximation Retinex Model

  • Xuesong Li,
  • Jianrun Shang,
  • Wenhao Song,
  • Jinyong Chen,
  • Guisheng Zhang and
  • Jinfeng Pan

16 August 2022

Images captured in a low-light environment are strongly influenced by noise and low contrast, which is detrimental to tasks such as image recognition and object detection. Retinex-based approaches have been continuously explored for low-light enhance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,049 Views
18 Pages

19 April 2024

Low-light image enhancement is very significant for vision tasks. We introduce Low-light Image Enhancement via Deep Learning Network (LLE-NET), which employs a deep network to estimate curve parameters. Cubic curves and gamma correction are employed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
332 Views
23 Pages

3 December 2025

Underground roadway support is a critical component for ensuring safety in mining operations. In recent years, with the rapid advancement of intelligent technologies, computer vision-based automatic rock bolt detection methods have emerged as a promi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
8,496 Views
15 Pages

Retinex-Based Fast Algorithm for Low-Light Image Enhancement

  • Shouxin Liu,
  • Wei Long,
  • Lei He,
  • Yanyan Li and
  • Wei Ding

13 June 2021

We proposed the Retinex-based fast algorithm (RBFA) to achieve low-light image enhancement in this paper, which can restore information that is covered by low illuminance. The proposed algorithm consists of the following parts. Firstly, we convert th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,505 Views
26 Pages

Dimma: Semi-Supervised Low-Light Image Enhancement with Adaptive Dimming

  • Wojciech Kozłowski,
  • Michał Szachniewicz,
  • Michał Stypułkowski and
  • Maciej Zięba

26 August 2024

Enhancing low-light images with natural colors poses a challenge due to camera processing variations and limited access to ground-truth lighting conditions. To address this, we propose Dimma, a semi-supervised approach that aligns with any camera usi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,331 Views
14 Pages

Object detection has a wide range of applications as the most fundamental and challenging task in computer vision. However, the image quality problems such as low brightness, low contrast, and high noise in low-light scenes cause significant degradat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,786 Views
16 Pages

Combining Low-Light Scene Enhancement for Fast and Accurate Lane Detection

  • Changshuo Ke,
  • Zhijie Xu,
  • Jianqin Zhang and
  • Dongmei Zhang

19 May 2023

Lane detection is a crucial task in the field of autonomous driving, as it enables vehicles to safely navigate on the road by interpreting the high-level semantics of traffic signs. Unfortunately, lane detection is a challenging problem due to factor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,551 Views
18 Pages

13 June 2023

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the perceptual quality of images captured under low-light conditions. This paper proposes a novel generative adversarial network to enhance low-light image quality. Firstly, it designs a generator consistin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,416 Views
16 Pages

Self-Guided Pixel-Wise Calibration for Low-Light Image Enhancement

  • Zhihua Shen,
  • Caiju Wang,
  • Fei Li,
  • Jinshuo Liang,
  • Xiaomao Li and
  • Dong Qu

27 November 2024

Unsupervised low-light image enhancement methods have gained attention and shown improvement with low data dependence. However, the lack of a ground truth presents challenges, notably in pronounced noise and color bias. This paper proposes a Self-Gui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,582 Views
14 Pages

Low-Light Image Enhancement by Combining Transformer and Convolutional Neural Network

  • Nianzeng Yuan,
  • Xingyun Zhao,
  • Bangyong Sun,
  • Wenjia Han,
  • Jiahai Tan,
  • Tao Duan and
  • Xiaomei Gao

30 March 2023

Within low-light imaging environment, the insufficient reflected light from objects often results in unsatisfactory images with degradations of low contrast, noise artifacts, or color distortion. The captured low-light images usually lead to poor vis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,505 Views
13 Pages

17 October 2023

Images acquired in low-light conditions often have poor visibility. These images considerably degrade the performance of algorithms when used in computer vision and multi-media systems. Several methods for low-light image enhancement have been propos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,338 Views
19 Pages

Super-Pixel Guided Low-Light Images Enhancement with Features Restoration

  • Xiaoming Liu,
  • Yan Yang,
  • Yuanhong Zhong,
  • Dong Xiong and
  • Zhiyong Huang

11 May 2022

Dealing with low-light images is a challenging problem in the image processing field. A mature low-light enhancement technology will not only be conductive to human visual perception but also lay a solid foundation for the subsequent high-level tasks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,941 Views
21 Pages

16 August 2022

Typical visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems rely on front-end odometry for feature extraction and matching to establish the relations between adjacent images. In a low-light environment, the image obtained by a camera is dim a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,662 Views
25 Pages

24 March 2024

Underwater detection faces uncomfortable illumination conditions, and traditional optical images sensitive to intensity often cannot work well in these conditions. Polarization imaging is a good solution for underwater detection under adverse lightin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,365 Views
20 Pages

30 September 2024

Low-light images often exhibit reduced brightness, weak contrast, and color distortion. Consequently, enhancing low-light images is essential to make them suitable for computer vision tasks. Nevertheless, addressing this task is particularly challeng...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,755 Views
20 Pages

Low-Light Image Enhancement with Residual Diffusion Model in Wavelet Domain

  • Bing Ding,
  • Desen Bu,
  • Bei Sun,
  • Yinglong Wang,
  • Wei Jiang,
  • Xiaoyong Sun and
  • Hanxiang Qian

22 August 2025

In low-light optical imaging, the scarcity of incident photons and the inherent limitations of imaging sensors lead to challenges such as low signal-to-noise ratio, limited dynamic range, and degraded contrast, severely compromising image quality and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,952 Views
14 Pages

DepthLux: Employing Depthwise Separable Convolutions for Low-Light Image Enhancement

  • Raul Balmez,
  • Alexandru Brateanu,
  • Ciprian Orhei,
  • Codruta O. Ancuti and
  • Cosmin Ancuti

1 March 2025

Low-light image enhancement is an important task in computer vision, often made challenging by the limitations of image sensors, such as noise, low contrast, and color distortion. These challenges are further exacerbated by the computational demands...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,768 Views
21 Pages

Efficient Gamma-Based Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation for Low-Light Image Enhancement

  • Huitao Zhao,
  • Shaoping Xu,
  • Liang Peng,
  • Hanyang Hu and
  • Shunliang Jiang

30 June 2025

In recent years, the continuous advancement of deep learning technology and its integration into the domain of low-light image enhancement have led to a steady improvement in enhancement effects. However, this progress has been accompanied by an incr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
277 Views
17 Pages

Zero-3DCE: A Low-Light Video Enhancement for More Robust Computer Vision Tasks

  • Mpilo Mbulelo Tatana,
  • Rito Clifford Maswanganyi and
  • Philani Khumalo

9 December 2025

Low-light video enhancement remains a challenge, specifically due to the challenging task of acquiring paired low-light video data. This paper proposes Zero-3DCE, a 3D version of Zero-DCE. Zero-3DCE differs from Zero-DCE by (i) introducing 3D separab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,654 Views
30 Pages

Zero-TCE: Zero Reference Tri-Curve Enhancement for Low-Light Images

  • Chengkang Yu,
  • Guangliang Han,
  • Mengyang Pan,
  • Xiaotian Wu and
  • Anping Deng

12 January 2025

Addressing the common issues of low brightness, poor contrast, and blurred details in images captured under conditions such as night, backlight, and adverse weather, we propose a zero-reference dual-path network based on multi-scale depth curve estim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
848 Views
19 Pages

GLMA: Global-to-Local Mamba Architecture for Low-Light Image Enhancement

  • Wentao Li,
  • Xinhao Wu,
  • Yu Guan,
  • Sen Lin,
  • Naida Ding,
  • Qiang Wang and
  • Yandong Tang

11 October 2025

In recent years, Mamba has gained increasing importance in the field of image restoration, gradually outperforming traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers. However, the existing Mamba-based networks mainly focus on capturing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,998 Views
11 Pages

19 July 2022

Due to the influence of the environment and the limit of optical equipment, low-light images produce problems such as low brightness, high noise, low contrast, and color distortion, which have a great impact on their visual perception and the followi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,963 Views
15 Pages

8 September 2022

Low-light image enhancement can effectively assist high-level vision tasks that often fail in poor illumination conditions. Most previous data-driven methods, however, implemented enhancement directly from severely degraded low-light images that may...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,949 Views
22 Pages

7 August 2023

Images captured under complex conditions frequently have low quality, and image performance obtained under low-light conditions is poor and does not satisfy subsequent engineering processing. The goal of low-light image enhancement is to restore low-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,024 Views
13 Pages

SCDNet: Self-Calibrating Depth Network with Soft-Edge Reconstruction for Low-Light Image Enhancement

  • Peixin Qu,
  • Zhen Tian,
  • Ling Zhou,
  • Jielin Li,
  • Guohou Li and
  • Chenping Zhao

5 January 2023

Captured low-light images typically suffer from low brightness, low contrast, and blurred details due to the scattering and absorption of light and limited lighting. To deal with these issues, we propose a self-calibrating depth network with soft-edg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,240 Views
19 Pages

Fast, Zero-Reference Low-Light Image Enhancement with Camera Response Model

  • Xiaofeng Wang,
  • Liang Huang,
  • Mingxuan Li,
  • Chengshan Han,
  • Xin Liu and
  • Ting Nie

2 August 2024

Low-light images are prevalent in intelligent monitoring and many other applications, with low brightness hindering further processing. Although low-light image enhancement can reduce the influence of such problems, current methods often involve a co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,549 Views
17 Pages

Deep Refinement Network for Natural Low-Light Image Enhancement in Symmetric Pathways

  • Lincheng Jiang,
  • Yumei Jing,
  • Shengze Hu,
  • Bin Ge and
  • Weidong Xiao

12 October 2018

Due to the cost limitation of camera sensors, images captured in low-light environments often suffer from low contrast and multiple types of noise. A number of algorithms have been proposed to improve contrast and suppress noise in the input low-ligh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,000 Views
20 Pages

Joint Luminance Adjustment and Color Correction for Low-Light Image Enhancement Network

  • Nenghuan Zhang,
  • Xiao Han,
  • Chenming Liu,
  • Ruipeng Gang,
  • Sai Ma and
  • Yizhen Cao

19 July 2024

Most of the existing low-light enhancement research focuses on global illumination enhancement while ignoring the issues of brightness unevenness and color distortion. To address this dilemma, we propose a low-light image enhancement method that can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,434 Views
13 Pages

6 March 2024

Aiming at solving the problems of local halo blurring, insufficient edge detail preservation, and serious noise in traditional image enhancement algorithms, an improved Retinex algorithm for low-light mine image enhancement is proposed. Firstly, in H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,636 Views
18 Pages

20 September 2020

The traffic block port monitors and manages the road traffic by shooting and recording the motor vehicles. However, due to the complex factors such as shooting angle, light condition, environmental background, etc., the recognition rate of license pl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,002 Views
15 Pages

Low-light images often contain noise due to the conditions under which they are taken. Fourier transform can reduce this noise in frequency while preserving the image detail embedded in the low-frequency components. Existing low-light image-enhanceme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,789 Views
19 Pages

19 February 2024

In Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS), Automated Driving Systems (ADS), and Driver Assistance Systems (DAS), RGB camera sensors are extensively utilized for object detection, semantic segmentation, and object tracking. Despite their popularit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
12,821 Views
10 Pages

15 January 2020

Low-light image enhancement is one of the most challenging tasks in computer vision, and it is actively researched and used to solve various problems. Most of the time, image processing achieves significant performance under normal lighting condition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,322 Views
16 Pages

22 February 2024

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the visual quality of images taken under complex low-light conditions. Recent works focus on carefully designing Retinex-based methods or end-to-end networks based on deep learning for LLIE. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,796 Views
13 Pages

15 September 2023

To address the challenges of low-light images, such as low brightness, poor contrast, and high noise, a network model based on deep learning and Retinex theory is proposed. The model consists of three modules: image decomposition, illumination enhanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,926 Views
18 Pages

21 September 2020

Sometimes it is very difficult to obtain high-quality images because of the limitations of image-capturing devices and the environment. Gamma correction (GC) is widely used for image enhancement. However, traditional GC perhaps cannot preserve image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,751 Views
20 Pages

22 April 2025

Low-light RAW image enhancement (LRIE) has attracted increased attention in recent years due to the demand for practical applications. Various deep learning-based methods have been proposed for dealing with this task, among which the fusion-based one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,358 Views
22 Pages

Unsupervised Low-Light Image Enhancement via Virtual Diffraction Information in Frequency Domain

  • Xupei Zhang,
  • Hanlin Qin,
  • Yue Yu,
  • Xiang Yan,
  • Shanglin Yang and
  • Guanghao Wang

17 July 2023

With the advent of deep learning, significant progress has been made in low-light image enhancement methods. However, deep learning requires enormous paired training data, which is challenging to capture in real-world scenarios. To address this limit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
488 Views
22 Pages

Efficient Dual-Domain Collaborative Enhancement Method for Low-Light Images in Architectural Scenes

  • Jing Pu,
  • Wei Shi,
  • Dong Luo,
  • Guofei Zhang,
  • Zhixun Xie,
  • Wanying Liu and
  • Bincan Liu

Low-light image enhancement in architectural scenes presents a considerable challenge for computer vision applications in construction engineering. Images captured in architectural settings during nighttime or under inadequate illumination often suff...

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