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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...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,837 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...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,512 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...

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  • Open Access
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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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,955 Views
20 Pages

Low-Light Photodetectors for Fluorescence Microscopy

  • Hiroaki Yokota,
  • Atsuhito Fukasawa,
  • Minako Hirano and
  • Toru Ide

19 March 2021

Over the years, fluorescence microscopy has evolved and has become a necessary element of life science studies. Microscopy has elucidated biological processes in live cells and organisms, and also enabled tracking of biomolecules in real time. Develo...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,842 Views
16 Pages

22 May 2024

Polarization imaging has achieved a wide range of applications in military and civilian fields such as camouflage detection and autonomous driving. However, when the imaging environment involves a low-light condition, the number of photons is low and...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,376 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...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,748 Views
19 Pages

Physiological and Molecular Responses of Wheat to Low Light Intensity

  • Xiu Li,
  • Rui Yang,
  • Liulong Li,
  • Ke Liu,
  • Matthew Tom Harrison,
  • Shah Fahad,
  • Mingmei Wei,
  • Lijun Yin,
  • Meixue Zhou and
  • Xiaoyan Wang

16 January 2023

Here we document physiological and molecular attributes of three wheat cultivars (ZM9023, YM158 and FM1228) under low light intensity with advanced technologies, including non-standard quantitative technology and quantitative proteomics technology. W...

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  • Open Access
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Luminescent Wearables for Low-Light Visibility of Children

  • Daniela Sofronova and
  • Radostina A. Angelova

20 October 2025

This study explores the development of luminescent wearables using machine embroidery with phosphorescent threads to enhance the visibility and safety of children in low-light environments, addressing the need for improved child protection in urban s...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,129 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...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,922 Views
13 Pages

Identification of Low-Light-Resistant Germplasm and Related Loci of Soybean

  • Jinfeng Hou,
  • Shuangshuang Wang,
  • Guolei Shan,
  • Lingyun Yuan,
  • Chenggang Wang,
  • Shidong Zhu,
  • Xiaobo Wang and
  • Lijuan Qiu

21 June 2022

Low-light stress will lead to abnormal soybean growth and a subsequent yield reduction. Association mapping is a useful alternative to linkage mapping for the detection of marker–phenotype associations. This study aimed to evaluate low-light-re...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,022 Views
18 Pages

5 July 2024

Accurate object tracking in low-light environments is crucial, particularly in surveillance, ethology applications, and biometric recognition systems. However, achieving this is significantly challenging due to the poor quality of captured sequences....

  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
23,991 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...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,519 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...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,140 Views
18 Pages

Nonlinear Deblurring for Low-Light Saturated Image

  • Shuning Cao,
  • Yi Chang,
  • Shengqi Xu,
  • Houzhang Fang and
  • Luxin Yan

7 April 2023

Single image deblurring has achieved significant progress for natural daytime images. Saturation is a common phenomenon in blurry images, due to the low light conditions and long exposure times. However, conventional linear deblurring methods usually...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,471 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...

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  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,413 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...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,173 Views
22 Pages

LumiLoc: A Low-Light-Optimized Visual Localization Framework for Autonomous Drones

  • Ruokun Qu,
  • Zhiyuan Wang,
  • Yelu Liu,
  • Chenglong Li,
  • Hui Jiang and
  • Chen Fang

In low-light conditions, UAV localization faces substantial challenges due to reduced visibility, elevated noise levels, and diminished contrast. To address these issues, we propose a low-light-optimized visual localization framework that integrates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,272 Views
18 Pages

Research on Target Image Classification in Low-Light Night Vision

  • Yanfeng Li,
  • Yongbiao Luo,
  • Yingjian Zheng,
  • Guiqian Liu and
  • Jiekai Gong

21 October 2024

In extremely dark conditions, low-light imaging may offer spectators a rich visual experience, which is important for both military and civic applications. However, the images taken in ultra-micro light environments usually have inherent defects such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,699 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...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,734 Views
15 Pages

Response of Tomato Plants, Ailsa Craig and Carotenoid Mutant tangerine, to Simultaneous Treatment by Low Light and Low Temperature

  • Antoaneta V. Popova,
  • Martin Stefanov,
  • Gergana Mihailova,
  • Preslava Borisova and
  • Katya Georgieva

12 July 2024

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) plants, wild type Ailsa Craig, and carotenoid mutant tangerine that accumulates prolycopene instead of all-trans-lycopene were exposed to a combined treatment by low light and low temperature for 5 days. The ability o...

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55 Citations
11,871 Views
22 Pages

Research on Improved YOLOv5 for Low-Light Environment Object Detection

  • Jing Wang,
  • Peng Yang,
  • Yuansheng Liu,
  • Duo Shang,
  • Xin Hui,
  • Jinhong Song and
  • Xuehui Chen

Object detection in low-light scenarios has been widely acknowledged as a significant research area in the field of computer vision, presenting a challenging task. Aiming at the low detection accuracy of mainstream single-stage object detection model...

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11 Citations
4,025 Views
21 Pages

20 January 2023

To assess the current and future utility of low-light satellite data, this paper reviewed 1630 papers, presentations, theses, and dissertations using day/night band (DNB) data from the visible infrared imaging radiometer suite (VIIRS) imager and its...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,301 Views
15 Pages

Learning to See in Extremely Low-Light Environments with Small Data

  • Yifeng Xu,
  • Huigang Wang,
  • Garth Douglas Cooper,
  • Shaowei Rong and
  • Weitao Sun

Recent advances in deep learning have shown exciting promise in various artificial intelligence vision tasks, such as image classification, image noise reduction, object detection, semantic segmentation, and more. The restoration of the image capture...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,329 Views
26 Pages

25 May 2023

The real-time monitoring and analysis system based on video images has been implemented to detect fire accidents on site. While most segmentation methods can accurately segment smoke areas in bright and clear images, it becomes challenging to obtain...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,221 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
16 Citations
4,486 Views
8 Pages

Meibomian Gland Dysfunction: Intense Pulsed Light Therapy in Combination with Low-Level Light Therapy as Rescue Treatment

  • Leonidas Solomos,
  • Walid Bouthour,
  • Ariane Malclès,
  • Gabriele Thumann and
  • Horace Massa

14 June 2021

Background and Objectives: Evaporative dry eye disease is frequently associated with meibomian gland dysfunction. Patients are often unhappy because of daily drops, care burden, and suboptimal conventional treatments. In this study, we assessed the e...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,790 Views
20 Pages

28 November 2023

Detecting pedestrians in low-light conditions is challenging, especially in the context of wearable platforms. Infrared cameras have been employed to enhance detection capabilities, whereas low-light cameras capture the more intricate features of ped...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,366 Views
12 Pages

Polarization-Based Two-Stage Image Dehazing in a Low-Light Environment

  • Xin Zhang,
  • Xia Wang,
  • Changda Yan,
  • Gangcheng Jiao and
  • Huiyang He

Fog, as a common weather condition, severely affects the visual quality of images. Polarization-based dehazing techniques can effectively produce clear results by utilizing the atmospheric polarization transmission model. However, current polarizatio...

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  • Open Access
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DANet: A Domain Alignment Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement

  • Qiao Li,
  • Bin Jiang,
  • Xiaochen Bo,
  • Chao Yang and
  • Xu Wu

We propose restoring low-light images suffering from severe degradation using a deep-learning approach. A significant domain gap exists between low-light and real images, which previous methods have failed to address with domain alignment. To tackle...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,022 Views
16 Pages

Enhanced Deblurring for Smart Cabinets in Dynamic and Low-Light Scenarios

  • Yali Sun,
  • Siyang Hu,
  • Kai Xie,
  • Chang Wen,
  • Wei Zhang and
  • Jianbiao He

In this paper, we propose a novel method to address dynamic blur and low-light issues in smart cabinets, which is named the MIMO-IMF (Multi-input Multi-output U-Net Integrated Motion Framework). This method combines a Frequency-Domain Adaptive Fusion...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,419 Views
17 Pages

26 December 2024

Object detection in low-light conditions presents significant challenges due to issues such as weak contrast, high noise, and blurred boundaries. Existing methods often use image enhancement to improve detection, which results in a large amount of co...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,921 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...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,078 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-...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,770 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
15 Citations
7,073 Views
27 Pages

Advanced Object Detection in Low-Light Conditions: Enhancements to YOLOv7 Framework

  • Dewei Zhao,
  • Faming Shao,
  • Sheng Zhang,
  • Li Yang,
  • Heng Zhang,
  • Shaodong Liu and
  • Qiang Liu

29 November 2024

Object detection in low-light conditions is increasingly relevant across various applications, presenting a challenge for improving accuracy. This study employs the popular YOLOv7 framework and examines low-light image characteristics, implementing p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,723 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
65 Citations
8,728 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
3 Citations
3,714 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
1 Citations
1,700 Views
15 Pages

Design of an Airborne Low-Light Imaging System Based on Multichannel Optical Butting

  • Jianwei Peng,
  • Hongtao Yang,
  • Yangjie Lei,
  • Wanrong Yu,
  • Weining Chen and
  • Guangdong Zhang

For the purpose of achieving long-range, high-resolution, and ultra-wide-swath airborne earth imaging at extremely low-light levels (0.01 Lux), a low-light imaging system built on multi-detector optical butting was researched. Having decomposed the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,262 Views
13 Pages

10 October 2020

In general, the sensor lamps in the corridors, stairwells, or toilets of buildings will change from completely dark to full brightness when someone passes by. It will make the human eyes feel very uncomfortable, and when the sensor lamp is completely...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,443 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
2 Citations
2,653 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
7 Citations
6,025 Views
16 Pages

A 64 × 128 3D-Stacked SPAD Image Sensor for Low-Light Imaging

  • Zhe Wang,
  • Xu Yang,
  • Na Tian,
  • Min Liu,
  • Ziteng Cai,
  • Peng Feng,
  • Runjiang Dou,
  • Shuangming Yu,
  • Nanjian Wu and
  • Liyuan Liu
  • + 1 author

5 July 2024

Low-light imaging capabilities are in urgent demand in many fields, such as security surveillance, night-time autonomous driving, wilderness rescue, and environmental monitoring. The excellent performance of SPAD devices gives them significant potent...

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  • Open Access
1,203 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
1,664 Views
13 Pages

17 February 2024

In the realms of the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) security, ensuring the integrity and quality of visual data becomes paramount, especially under low-light conditions, where low-light image enhancement emerges as a crucia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,806 Views
18 Pages

20 August 2023

The effects of a five-day treatment with low light intensity on tomato plants—Ailsa Craig and tangerine mutant—at normal and low temperatures and after recovery for three days under control conditions were investigated. The tangerine toma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,085 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
2 Citations
3,614 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...

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