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Awesome Image Enhancement

A curated list of image enhancement and denoising papers.

Table of Contents

  • General Enhancement
  • Low light / Extremely low light
  • Image denoising
  • Related papers
  • Datasets
  • References

General Enhancement

Paper Supervised Link Conference Notes
Classification-Driven Dynamic Image Enhancement Paper CVPR 2018
Distort-and-Recover: Color Enhancement Using Deep Reinforcement Learning Paper CVPR 2018
Deep Photo Enhancer: Unpaired Learning for Image Enhancement From Photographs With GANs Paper CVPR 2018

Low light / Extremely low light

For low light settings, denoising is a very important factor.

Learning-based

Paper Supervised Link Conference Notes
Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation for Low-Light Image Enhancement No Paper CVPR 2020
Learning to Restore Low-Light Images via Decomposition-and-Enhancement Yes Paper CVPR 2020
From Fidelity to Perceptual Quality: A Semi-Supervised Approach for Low-Light Image Enhancement Paper CVPR 2020
A Physics-based Noise Formation Model for Extreme Low-light Raw Denoising Paper CVPR 2020
Enhancing Low Light Videos by Exploring High Sensitivity Camera Noise Paper ICCV 2019 Video
Underexposed Photo Enhancement Using Deep Illumination Estimation Paper CVPR 2019 Underexposed photos
EnlightenGAN: Deep Light Enhancement without Paired Supervision Paper/Github arXiv preprint use GANs
MBLLEN: Low-light Image/Video Enhancement Using CNNs Paper BMVC 2018 Video
Kindling the Darkness: A Practical Low-light Image Enhancer Github ACMMM 2019
Deep Retinex Decomposition for Low-Light Enhancement Paper/Github BMVC 2018
Attention Guided Low-light Image Enhancement with a Large Scale Low-light Simulation Dataset Paper arXiv preprint

Non-learning

Paper Link Conference Notes
A weighted variational model for simultane- ous reflectance and illumination estimation Paper CVPR 2016
Lime: Low-light image enhancement via illumination map estimation Paper TIP 2017
Structure-Revealing Low-Light Image Enhancement Via Robust Retinex Model Paper TIP 2018

Image denoising

Related papers

Paper Supervised Link Conference Notes
Deep Image Prior No Paper CVPR 2018

Datasets

Dataset Link
Exclusively-Dark-Image-Dataset Dataset
VIP-LowLight Dataset Dataset
The Darmstadt Noise Dataset Dataset
MBLLEN dataset Dataset
Vonikakis's hardest low light cases dataset Dataset

References