Low-Light Image Enhancement

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30 shown of 181 papers with code (316 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector
  8 Dec 2015 221 repositories listed Syntology ran 19 of 131 samples · 112 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
  Experimental results on the PASCAL VOC, MS COCO, and ILSVRC datasets confirm that SSD has comparable accuracy to methods that utilize an additional object proposal step and is much faster, while providing a unified…
• Bayesian SegNet: Model Uncertainty in Deep Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Architectures for Scene Understanding
  9 Nov 2015 21 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 18 samples · 18 unverified
  Semantic segmentation is an important tool for visual scene understanding and a meaningful measure of uncertainty is essential for decision making.
• Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation for Low-Light Image Enhancement
  19 Jan 2020 13 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 16 samples · 15 unverified
  The paper presents a novel method, Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation (Zero-DCE), which formulates light enhancement as a task of image-specific curve estimation with a deep network.
• EnlightenGAN: Deep Light Enhancement without Paired Supervision
  17 Jun 2019 8 repositories listed
  Deep learning-based methods have achieved remarkable success in image restoration and enhancement, but are they still competitive when there is a lack of paired training data?
• LLNet: A Deep Autoencoder Approach to Natural Low-light Image Enhancement
  12 Nov 2015 6 repositories listed
  In surveillance, monitoring and tactical reconnaissance, gathering the right visual information from a dynamic environment and accurately processing such data are essential ingredients to making informed decisions which…
• Retinexformer: One-stage Retinex-based Transformer for Low-light Image Enhancement
  12 Mar 2023 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 10 samples · 8 unverified
  When enhancing low-light images, many deep learning algorithms are based on the Retinex theory.
• Kindling the Darkness: A Practical Low-light Image Enhancer
  4 May 2019 4 repositories listed
  It is worth to note that our network is trained with paired images shot under different exposure conditions, instead of using any ground-truth reflectance and illumination information.
• NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Low Light Image Enhancement: Methods and Results
  22 Apr 2024 3 repositories listed
  This paper reviews the NTIRE 2024 low light image enhancement challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and results.
• MAXIM: Multi-Axis MLP for Image Processing
  9 Jan 2022 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 27 of 46 samples · 19 unverified
  In this work, we present a multi-axis MLP based architecture called MAXIM, that can serve as an efficient and flexible general-purpose vision backbone for image processing tasks.
• Low-Light Image and Video Enhancement Using Deep Learning: A Survey
  21 Apr 2021 3 repositories listed
  Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the perception or interpretability of an image captured in an environment with poor illumination.
• Test-Time Training with Self-Supervision for Generalization under Distribution Shifts
  29 Sep 2019 3 repositories listed
  In this paper, we propose Test-Time Training, a general approach for improving the performance of predictive models when training and test data come from different distributions.
• Attention Guided Low-light Image Enhancement with a Large Scale Low-light Simulation Dataset
  2 Aug 2019 3 repositories listed
  Low-light image enhancement is challenging in that it needs to consider not only brightness recovery but also complex issues like color distortion and noise, which usually hide in the dark.
• Deep Retinex Decomposition for Low-Light Enhancement
  14 Aug 2018 3 repositories listed
  Based on the decomposition, subsequent lightness enhancement is conducted on illumination by an enhancement network called Enhance-Net, and for joint denoising there is a denoising operation on reflectance.
• Getting to Know Low-light Images with The Exclusively Dark Dataset
  29 May 2018 3 repositories listed
  Thus, we propose the Exclusively Dark dataset to elevate this data drought, consisting exclusively of ten different types of low-light images (i.
• LYT-NET: Lightweight YUV Transformer-based Network for Low-light Image Enhancement
  26 Jan 2024 2 repositories listed
  This letter introduces LYT-Net, a novel lightweight transformer-based model for low-light image enhancement (LLIE).
• MixNet: Efficient Global Modeling for Ultra-High-Definition Image Restoration
  19 Jan 2024 2 repositories listed
  To capture the longrange dependency of features without introducing excessive computational complexity, we present the Global Feature Modulation Layer (GFML).
• Low-light Image Enhancement via CLIP-Fourier Guided Wavelet Diffusion
  8 Jan 2024 2 repositories listed
  Moreover, to further promote the effective recovery of the image details, we combine the Fourier transform based on the wavelet transform and construct a Hybrid High Frequency Perception Module (HFPM) with a significant…
• Joint Correcting and Refinement for Balanced Low-Light Image Enhancement
  28 Sep 2023 2 repositories listed
  Specifically, the proposed method, so-called Joint Correcting and Refinement Network (JCRNet), which mainly consists of three stages to balance brightness, color, and illumination of enhancement.
• Double Domain Guided Real-Time Low-Light Image Enhancement for Ultra-High-Definition Transportation Surveillance
  15 Sep 2023 2 repositories listed
  Real-time transportation surveillance is an essential part of the intelligent transportation system (ITS).
• Enlighten Anything: When Segment Anything Model Meets Low-Light Image Enhancement
  17 Jun 2023 2 repositories listed
  Image restoration is a low-level visual task, and most CNN methods are designed as black boxes, lacking transparency and intrinsic aesthetics.
• Local Color Distributions Prior for Image Enhancement
  25 Oct 2022 2 repositories listed
  Existing image enhancement methods are typically designed to address either the over- or under-exposure problem in the input image.
• Illumination-Aware Image Quality Assessment for Enhanced Low-light Image
  22 Oct 2021 2 repositories listed
  To reduce the overshoot effects of LIE, this paper proposes an illumination-aware image quality assessment, called LIE-IQA, for the enhanced low-light images.
• LIME: Low-light Image Enhancement via Illumination Map Estimation
  3 Dec 2016 2 repositories listed
  When one captures images in low-light conditions, the images often suffer from low visibility.
• HVI-CIDNet+: Beyond Extreme Darkness for Low-Light Image Enhancement
  9 Jul 2025 1 repository listed
  Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) aims to restore vivid content and details from corrupted low-light images.
• RT-X Net: RGB-Thermal cross attention network for Low-Light Image Enhancement
  30 May 2025 1 repository listed
  We propose RT-X Net, a cross-attention network that fuses RGB and thermal images for nighttime image enhancement.
• URWKV: Unified RWKV Model with Multi-state Perspective for Low-light Image Restoration
  29 May 2025 1 repository listed Syntology ran 6 of 13 samples · 7 unverified
  Existing low-light image enhancement (LLIE) and joint LLIE and deblurring (LLIE-deblur) models have made strides in addressing predefined degradations, yet they are often constrained by dynamically coupled degradations.
• See through the Dark: Learning Illumination-affined Representations for Nighttime Occupancy Prediction
  27 May 2025 1 repository listed
  Occupancy prediction aims to estimate the 3D spatial distribution of occupied regions along with their corresponding semantic labels.
• Forward-only Diffusion Probabilistic Models
  22 May 2025 1 repository listed
  This work presents a forward-only diffusion (FoD) approach for generative modelling.
• Degradation-Aware Feature Perturbation for All-in-One Image Restoration
  19 May 2025 1 repository listed Syntology ran 6 of 7 samples · 1 unverified · 7 pointer-only (licence)
  To address this issue, motivated by the routing strategy, we propose DFPIR, a novel all-in-one image restorer that introduces Degradation-aware Feature Perturbations(DFP) to adjust the feature space to align with the…
• Entropy-Driven Genetic Optimization for Deep-Feature-Guided Low-Light Image Enhancement
  16 May 2025 1 repository listed
  Image enhancement methods often prioritize pixel level information, overlooking the semantic features.

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