arXiv Computer Vision

IDM-Net: A Lightweight Illumination-Decoupled Modulation Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement

IDM-Net is a lightweight Illumination-Decoupled Modulation Network designed for low-light image enhancement. It uses a dual-encoder architecture: a structure encoder extracts multi-scale appearance features from the RGB image, while a lightweight illumination encoder learns illumination priors from the decoupled luminance channel. An Illumination-Guided Modulation module injects these priors into the decoder via spatially adaptive affine modulation, and a Feature Refinement Block progressively suppresses artifacts and recovers fine details, achieving competitive performance on standard benchmarks with good balance between quality and efficiency.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 28

EvLIR: Learning Illumination Residuals from Ordered Events for Low-Light Image Enhancement

Low-light image enhancement is severely ill-posed when the input frame contains missing structure, saturated noise, and weak local contrast. Event cameras provide asynchronous brightness-change observations with high temporal resolution, but prior works often treat voxel channels as an unordered or static feature stack before fusion, rather than explicitly modeling their within-window temporal evolution, weakening the temporal evidence that makes events useful.

arXiv AI
Jul 7

MambaLIE: Scene Light Intensity-Boosted Low-Light Image Enhancement with State Space Model

arXiv:2607. 03013v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Images captured by consumer electronic devices, such as mobile phones and digital cameras, often suffer from low-light degradation due to sensor limitations and imaging pipelines, which degrades visual quality and affects downstream vision tasks.

By Wanshu Fan, Xiangyu Li, Cong Wang, Kin-man Lam, Xin Yang, Haiyan Zhang, Dongsheng Zhou
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

LEIQ-Assessor: Multi-dimensional Quality Assessment of Low-light Enhanced Images via Multi-task Learning

Low-light image enhancement algorithms (LIEAs) aim to improve the visibility of images captured under poor illumination. However, the enhancement process often introduces artifacts such as noise amplification, color shift, structural damage, and over-exposure, which degrade the perceptual quality of the enhanced images.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 11

Towards Color-Faithful Low-Light Image Enhancement via Adaptive Color Debiasing and Saturation Rectification

Low-light imaging often introduces color bias caused by the low signal-to-noise ratio and the image formation process. Although recent low-light image enhancement methods have achieved strong brightness recovery, faithful color restoration remains challenging, manifesting as overall color bias together with local under- and over-saturation.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

WAVE: Reversing the Guidance Hierarchy for Coarse-to-Fine Guided Depth Super-Resolution

WAVE introduces a multi-level discrete wavelet transform (ML‑DWT) to reverse the typical fine‑to‑coarse bias in guided depth super‑resolution. By consuming wavelet sub‑bands and semantic tokens in reverse order, it separates structure and detail reconstruction, applies semantic gating to high‑frequency bands, and fuses modalities via an invertible coupling mechanism. Experiments on multiple benchmarks show that WAVE matches or outperforms existing methods, especially at high upsampling factors where low‑resolution depth has minimal structure.

By Tayyab Nasir, Daochang Liu, Ajmal Mian
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

Dense-Prior-Guided Generative Video Compression

arXiv:2604.06655v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based generative video compression offers a promising paradigm for low-bitrate reconstruction, but existing keyframe-based controllable a...

By Ding Ding, Daowen Li, Yixin Gao, Ruixiao Dong, Kai Li, Ying Chen, Li Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 23

MirrorDistill: Illumination-Aware Latent Distillation for Efficient Low-Light Restoration

MirrorDistill introduces an illumination‑aware latent distillation framework for low‑light image enhancement. It trains a lightweight student encoder‑decoder by aligning its intermediate features with clean‑domain targets generated by a teacher decoder, using feature mirroring and illumination‑aware weighting to emphasize underexposed regions. The method achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on the LOL‑v2‑Real benchmark while maintaining the lowest computational complexity, and the code is released as open source.

By Farida Mohsen, Tala Zaim, Nurul Izni Rusli, Ali Al-Zawqari, Ali Safa, Samir Brahim Belhaouari