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.
arXiv:2604. 23094v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Portrait relighting is a low-level vision problem in which physically plausible illumination transfer, identity preservation, and compact real-time inference must be considered together.
Lumos3D introduces a pose‑free, single‑forward framework for restoring 3D scenes captured in low light. It employs a cross‑illumination distillation scheme where a frozen teacher network provides accurate geometric cues to a student model, and a specialized Lumos loss refines the 3D Gaussian reconstruction. Trained on a single dataset, Lumos3D can directly restore illumination and structure from unposed, low‑light multi‑view images without per‑scene optimization, achieving competitive results on real‑world datasets.
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.
Consist‑Retinex introduces a one‑step noise‑emphasized consistency training framework for Retinex‑based low‑light image enhancement. It first decomposes images into reflectance and illumination maps using a Retinex Transformer Decomposition Network, then trains two conditional consistency models with a dual objective that blends trajectory consistency and ground‑truth alignment. The method employs adaptive noise‑emphasized fixed‑point sampling to focus supervision near the inference endpoint, achieving state‑of‑the‑art VE‑LOL‑L scores on paired and unpaired low‑light benchmarks while reducing sampling and training costs.
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.
arXiv:2609.23442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models generate high-quality images, yet often violate the physical laws governing mirror reflections. Reflections often suffer from geometri...
Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) methods involve tunable parameters that are typically fixed, often leading to performance degradation when applied across scenes. Manually selecting the best configuration, however, can be time-consuming and not always practical.
arXiv:2604. 10359v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to restore natural visibility, color fidelity, and structural detail under severe illumination degradation.
Editable 3D scene creation requires object instances and lights that can be inspected, moved, and imported into standard engines, yet existing single-image methods largely stop at room-scale geometry, baked/global illumination, or text-driven generation. We introduce Lumera (Light-aware Unified Engine-native Reconstruction and Assembly), a benchmark and reference pipeline for engine-native, light-aware 3D scene parsing from a single image.
arXiv:2608. 14702v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Film emulation reproduces the look of an analog film stock on a new digital photograph.
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.
arXiv:2608. 11562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Videos captured through glass often contain reflections that degrade visual quality and interfere with downstream vision tasks.