arXiv:2505.16157v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Transformer-based models have made remarkable progress in image restoration (IR) tasks. However, the quadratic complexity of self-attention in Tran...
By Yuang Ai
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.
By Cheng-Yen Hsiao, Jing-Ming Guo
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
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:2607. 00774v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent recursive Transformer studies have primarily reused shared parameters across computation steps to construct compact, parameter-efficient models.
By Sang In Lee, Jihun Park
arXiv:2608.29043v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Light-effect contamination poses a significant challenge to nighttime visibility enhancement. Most methods suppress light effects by estimating and dec...
By Hanting Li, Xin Sun, Wei Ye, Jungong Han, Liang-jie Zhang
arXiv:2609.01123v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advancements in low-light image enhancement have leveraged diffusion models for their strong ability to generate perceptually realistic, detaile...
By Ruoyu Guo, Haonan Zhong, Maurice Pagnucco, Yang Song
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.
By Jian Xu, Wei Chen, Shigui Li, Delu Zeng, John Paisley, Qibin Zhao
arXiv:2606. 06899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Variations in illumination remain a major challenge for visual representation learning, as they induce substantial appearance changes both across and within environments.
By Lizhen Zhu, Charantej Reddy Pochimireddy, James Z Wang, Brad Wyble
RelightFormer is a feed‑forward generative Transformer that performs single‑ and multi‑view image relighting without explicit intrinsic property estimation. It incorporates a latent illumination module that injects target environment maps into spatial features via cross‑attention, and uses permutation‑invariant positional encodings to process unordered multi‑view inputs symmetrically. Trained on the large Laval Objaverse Dataset, the model achieves state‑of‑the‑art visual and photorealistic relighting quality, and demonstrates strong zero‑shot generalization across various relighting tasks.
By Hejun Wang, Jinxi Li, Junwei Jiang, Shiwei Mao, Hu Cheng, Shouwang Huang, Bo Yang
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.
By Alexandru Brateanu, Tingting Mu, Codruta Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti
arXiv:2502. 07531v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Controllable image-to-video (I2V) generation transforms a reference image into a coherent video guided by user-specified control signals.
By Sixiao Zheng, Zimian Peng, Yanpeng Zhou, Yi Zhu, Hang Xu, Xiangru Huang, Yanwei Fu