Most cited papers in Image Enhancement Techniques

Image Enhancement Techniques

What are the most cited papers in Image Enhancement Techniques?

The most cited paper in Image Enhancement Techniques is "Perceptual Losses for Real-Time Style Transfer and Super-Resolution" (Justin M. Johnson, Alexandre Alahi, Li Fei-Fei, 2016), with 10,170 citations. Next come "Fast approximate energy minimization via graph cuts" (7,066) and "Making a “Completely Blind” Image Quality Analyzer" (6,737).

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Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 1,300 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	Perceptual Losses for Real-Time Style Transfer and Super-Resolution Justin M. Johnson, Alexandre Alahi, Li Fei-Fei · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paperOpen access	2016	10,170
2	Fast approximate energy minimization via graph cuts Yuri Boykov, Olga Veksler, Ramin Zabih · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2001	7,066
3	Making a “Completely Blind” Image Quality Analyzer A. Mittal, Rajiv Soundararajan, Alan Conrad Bovik · IEEE Signal Processing Letters	14 Nov 2012	6,737
4	Single Image Haze Removal Using Dark Channel Prior Kaiming He, Jian Cheng Sun, Xiaoou Tang · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	15 Sep 2010	6,281
5	High-Speed Tracking with Kernelized Correlation Filters João F. Henriques, Rui Caseiro, Pedro Martins et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Open access	Aug 2014	5,866
6	"GrabCut" Carsten Rother, Vladimir Kolmogorov, Andrew Blake · ACM Transactions on Graphics Open access	Aug 2004	5,822
7	A universal image quality index Zhou Wang, Alan Conrad Bovik · IEEE Signal Processing Letters	Mar 2002	5,783
8	Guided Image Filtering Kaiming He, Jian Zhong Sun, Xiaoou Tang · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2 Oct 2012	5,494
9	Fully-Convolutional Siamese Networks for Object Tracking Luca Bertinetto, Jack Valmadre, João F. Henriques et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper	2016	4,443
10	Stereo Processing by Semiglobal Matching and Mutual Information Heiko Hirschmüller · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	20 Dec 2007	4,328
11	Image information and visual quality Hamid R. Sheikh, Alan Conrad Bovik · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	18 Jan 2006	4,118
12	Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization Karel J. Zuiderveld · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter	1994	4,088
13	Light field rendering Marc Levoy, Pat Hanrahan Conference paper	Aug 1996	3,785
14	DehazeNet: An End-to-End System for Single Image Haze Removal Bolun Cai, Xiangmin Xu, Kui Jia et al. · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Open access	10 Aug 2016	3,386
15	FlowNet 2.0: Evolution of Optical Flow Estimation with Deep Networks Eddy Ilg, N. Michael Mayer, Tonmoy Saikia et al. Conference paper	Jul 2017	3,369
16	Colorful Image Colorization Richard Zhang, Phillip Isola, Alexei A. Efros · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper	2016	3,362
17	Selective Kernel Networks Xiang Li, Wenhai Wang, Xiaolin Hu et al. Conference paper	Jun 2019	3,134
18	Accurate, Dense, and Robust Multiview Stereopsis Yasutaka Furukawa, Jean Ponce · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	Sep 2009	3,089
19	A multiscale retinex for bridging the gap between color images and the human observation of scenes Daniel J. Jobson, Zia Ur Rahman, Glenn A. Woodell · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	Jul 1997	3,055
20	High Performance Visual Tracking with Siamese Region Proposal Network Bo Hu Li, Junjie Yan, Wei Wu et al. Conference paper	Jun 2018	3,035
21	A Statistical Evaluation of Recent Full Reference Image Quality Assessment Algorithms Hamid R. Sheikh, Muhammad Farooq Sabir, Alan Conrad Bovik · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	18 Oct 2006	3,027
22	Color transfer between images Erik Reinhard, M. Adhikhmin, Bryan N S Gooch et al. · IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications	2001	3,016
23	LIME: Low-Light Image Enhancement via Illumination Map Estimation Xiaojie Guo, Yu Li, Haibin Ling · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	14 Dec 2016	3,001
24	Learning Multi-domain Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Tracking Hyeonseob Nam, Bohyung Han Conference paper	Jun 2016	2,850
25	EnlightenGAN: Deep Light Enhancement Without Paired Supervision Yifan Jiang, Xinyu Gong, Ding Liu et al. · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	2021	2,612
26	RAFT: Recurrent All-Pairs Field Transforms for Optical Flow Zachary Teed, Jia Hao Deng · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper	2020	2,596
27	SiamRPN++: Evolution of Siamese Visual Tracking With Very Deep Networks Bo Li, Wei Wu, Qiang Wang et al. Conference paper	Jun 2019	2,563
28	A Fast Single Image Haze Removal Algorithm Using Color Attenuation Prior Qingsong Zhu, Jiaming Mai, Ling Shao · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Open access	18 Jun 2015	2,500
29	Image quilting for texture synthesis and transfer Alexei A. Efros, William T. Freeman Conference paper	Aug 2001	2,416
30	Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation for Low-Light Image Enhancement Chunle Guo, Chongyi Li, Jichang Guo et al. Conference paper	Jun 2020	2,406
31	PVT v2: Improved baselines with pyramid vision transformer Wenhai Wang, Enze Xie, Xiang Li et al. · Computational Visual Media Open access	16 Mar 2022	2,391
32	AOD-Net: All-in-One Dehazing Network Boyi Li, Xiulian Peng, Zhangyang Wang et al. Conference paper	Oct 2017	2,370
33	Properties and performance of a center/surround retinex Daniel J. Jobson, Zia Ur Rahman, Glenn A. Woodell · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	Mar 1997	2,339
34	Single-Image Crowd Counting via Multi-Column Convolutional Neural Network Yingying Zhang, Desen Zhou, Siqin Chen et al. Conference paper	Jun 2016	2,326
35	Benchmarking Single-Image Dehazing and Beyond Boyi Li, Wenqi Ren, Dengpan Fu et al. · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	30 Aug 2018	2,317
36	Visibility in bad weather from a single image Robby T. Tan Conference paper	Jun 2008	2,312
37	Albumentations: Fast and Flexible Image Augmentations Alexander Buslaev, Vladimir I. Iglovikov, Eugene Khvedchenya et al. · Information Open access	24 Feb 2020	2,295
38	A Large Dataset to Train Convolutional Networks for Disparity, Optical Flow, and Scene Flow Estimation Nikolaus Mayer, Eddy Ilg, Philip Hausser et al. Conference paperOpen access	Jun 2016	2,279
39	Run, Don't Walk: Chasing Higher FLOPS for Faster Neural Networks Jierun Chen, Shiu-hong Kao, Hao He et al. Conference paper	Jun 2023	2,270
40	A Database and Evaluation Methodology for Optical Flow Simon J Baker, Daniel Scharstein, John P. Lewis et al. · International Journal of Computer Vision Open access	29 Nov 2010	2,263
41	Saliency filters: Contrast based filtering for salient region detection Federico Perazzi, Philipp Krähenbühl, Yael Pritch et al. Conference paper	Jun 2012	2,144
42	Single image dehazing Raanan Fattal · ACM Transactions on Graphics	Aug 2008	2,137
43	Pre-Trained Image Processing Transformer Hanting Chen, Yunhe Wang, Tianyu Guo et al. Conference paper	Jun 2021	2,104
44	U2Fusion: A Unified Unsupervised Image Fusion Network Han Xu, Jiayi Ma, Junjun Jiang et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	28 Jul 2020	2,102
45	Robust Object Tracking with Online Multiple Instance Learning Boris Babenko, Shuicheng Yan, Serge Belongie · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	23 Dec 2010	2,039
46	DenseFuse: A Fusion Approach to Infrared and Visible Images Hui Li, Xiao-Jun Wu · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Open access	18 Dec 2018	2,015
47	Most apparent distortion: full-reference image quality assessment and the role of strategy Damon M. Chandler · Journal of Electronic Imaging	2010	1,982
48	LLNet: A deep autoencoder approach to natural low-light image enhancement Kin Gwn Lore, Adedotun Akintayo, Soumik Sarkar · Pattern Recognition	17 Jun 2016	1,969
49	Unsupervised Learning of Visual Features by Contrasting Cluster Assignments Mathilde Caron, Ishan Misra, Julien Mairal et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) PreprintOpen access	17 Jun 2020	1,903
50	MemNet: A Persistent Memory Network for Image Restoration Ying Yu Tai, Jian Jun Yang, Xiaoming Liu et al. Conference paper	Oct 2017	1,894

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