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Image Enhancement of Low-Light Scenes with Near-Infrared Flash Images

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Image Enhancement of Low-Light Scenes with Near-Infrared Flash Images
Abstract. We present a novel technique for enhancing an image captured in low light by using near-infrared flash images. The main idea is to combine a color image with near-infrared flash images captured at the same time without causing any interference with the color image. In this work, near-infrared flash images are effectively used for removing annoying effects that are commonly observed in images of dimly lit environments, namely, image noise and motion blur. Our denoising method uses a pair of color and near-infrared flash images captured simultaneously. Therefore it is applicable to dynamic scenes, whereas existing methods assume stationary scenes and require a pair of flash and no-flash color images captured sequentially. Our deblurring method utilizes a set of near-infrared flash images captured during the exposure time of a single color image and directly acquires a motion blur kernel based on optical flow. We implemented a multispectral imaging system and confirme...
Sosuke Matsui, Takahiro Okabe, Mihoko Shimano, Yoi
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Updated 02 Sep 2010
Type Conference
Year 2009
Where ACCV
Authors Sosuke Matsui, Takahiro Okabe, Mihoko Shimano, Yoichi Sato
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