Low-Light Image Restoration ML Frameworks

Tools and methods for enhancing, denoising, and restoring images captured in low-light conditions using deep learning techniques. Includes image decomposition, deblurring, and RAW processing. Does NOT include shadow removal, general image enhancement without low-light focus, or video processing frameworks.

There are 57 low-light image restoration frameworks tracked. 1 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is cszn/KAIR at 51/100 with 3,444 stars.

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#	Framework	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	cszn/KAIR Image Restoration Toolbox (PyTorch). Training and testing codes for DPIR,...	51	Established	3,444	Python
2	gabrieleilertsen/hdrcnn HDR image reconstruction from a single exposure using deep CNNs	43	Emerging	541	Python
3	zhihongz/awesome-low-light-image-enhancement This is a resouce list for low light image enhancement	43	Emerging	1,780	MATLAB
4	INVOKERer/DeepRFT The code for 'Intriguing Findings of Frequency Selection for Image...	42	Emerging	277	Python
5	subeeshvasu/Awesome-Deblurring A curated list of resources for Image and Video Deblurring	42	Emerging	2,839	—
6	emidan19/deep-tempest Restoration for TEMPEST images using deep-learning	42	Emerging	669	Python
7	VinAIResearch/blur-kernel-space-exploring Exploring Image Deblurring via Blur Kernel Space (CVPR'21)	40	Emerging	162	Python
8	soumik12345/MIRNet Tensorflow implementation of MIRNet for Low-light image enhancement	40	Emerging	118	Jupyter Notebook
9	rebeccaeexu/Awesome-High-Dynamic-Range-Imaging A collection of HDR imaging papers.	38	Emerging	224	—
10	pksvision/Deep-WaveNet-Underwater-Image-Restoration Wavelength-based Attributed Deep Neural Network for Underwater Image Restoration	38	Emerging	114	Jupyter Notebook
11	aiff22/DPED Software and pre-trained models for automatic photo quality enhancement...	38	Emerging	1,712	Python
12	oneTaken/Awesome-Denoise One-paper-one-short-contribution-summary of all latest image/burst/video...	37	Emerging	499	—
13	dronefreak/clearview Fast and practical image deraining with PyTorch. Removes rain streaks using...	37	Emerging	6	Python
14	Rishit-dagli/MIRNet-TFJS TensorFlow JS models for MIRNet for low-light💡 image enhancement	36	Emerging	356	Jupyter Notebook
15	INWLY/LWTformer LWTformer: A Detail-Aware, Learnable Wavelet-Transformer for Ancient Chinese...	35	Emerging	5	Python
16	tranleanh/edn-gtm EDN-GTM for Single Image Dehazing	33	Emerging	46	Python
17	towardsDLCV/RBaIR [Pattern Recognition 2026] Towards Maximizing Feature Efficiency: All-in-One...	32	Emerging	6	Python
18	tnwei/waternet Modern replication of WaterNet from "An Underwater Image Enhancement...	32	Emerging	67	Jupyter Notebook
19	IDKiro/StarEnhancer StarEnhancer: Learning Real-Time and Style-Aware Image Enhancement	32	Emerging	154	Python
20	alberto-rota/UnReflectAnything [CVPR 2026] UnReflectAnything: RGB-Only Highlight Removal by Rendering...	32	Emerging	4	Python
21	Thehunk1206/Zero-DCE Implementation of Research Paper "Learning to Enhance Low-Light Image via...	31	Emerging	43	Python
22	beingdhruvv/ImageSharpening-KD-Restormer-UNet This repository features an image sharpening pipeline using Knowledge...	30	Emerging	2	Jupyter Notebook
23	weblineindia/AIML-Image-Enhancement AI ML based Image enhancement module built in Python. It is used for...	30	Emerging	15	Python
24	sandeepraju/ihradis-cnn-deblur Image deblurring with Convolutional Neural Networks. Scripts & Neural...	30	Emerging	71	Python
25	lingyanruan/DRBNet [CVPR Oral 2022] PyTorch Implementation for "Learning to Deblur using Light...	28	Experimental	124	Python
26	VisionVerse/Blind-Motion-Deblurring-Survey Deep learning in motion deblurring: current status, benchmarks and future...	27	Experimental	227	Python
27	GuoLanqing/Awesome-Shadow-Removal Collection of recent shadow removal works, including papers, codes,...	26	Experimental	389	—
28	ymmshi/dark_infer_collections 👉👉 [UPDATING] Low-light image enhancement inference code collections,...	26	Experimental	92	Python
29	xw-hu/Unveiling-Deep-Shadows A Survey and Benchmark on Image and Video Shadow Detection, Removal, and...	26	Experimental	100	Python
30	GeeveGeorge/GFPGAN-for-Video-SR A colab notebook for video super resolution using GFPGAN	26	Experimental	38	Jupyter Notebook
31	ajithvcoder/DeblurGANv2_Customdataset Using deblur GAN on custom dataset	25	Experimental	4	Jupyter Notebook
32	jinnovation/derain-net A (WIP) TensorFlow reproduction of Fu, Huang, Ding, Liao, and Paisley's...	22	Experimental	16	Python
33	fabio-sim/DocShadow-ONNX-TensorRT ONNX-compatible DocShadow: High-Resolution Document Shadow Removal. Supports...	22	Experimental	24	Python
34	kawchar85/Awesome-Deblurring-Resources A curated list of research papers and datasets related to image and video deblurring.	20	Experimental	13	—
35	abdullahahsann/VideoEnhancementForSurviellance Video Enhancement For Surveillance	20	Experimental	15	—
36	JihyongOh/DeMFI [ECCV 2022] Official repository of DeMFI.	20	Experimental	84	Python
37	TaoWangzj/Awesome-Image-Restoration The repository of survey paper "Deep Image Restoration: A Survey"	20	Experimental	9	—
38	rajiv2004-cloud/Dehazing-model AI-ML Based Dehazing / De-smoking Algorithm	19	Experimental	22	Python
39	HrishavBakulBarua/Cycle-HDR Theory, Experiments, and Dataset for our newly proposed Deep Learning method...	18	Experimental	3	—
40	prafful-kumar/Blurred-Image-Recognition Implementation of U-net architecture for image deblurring (Image restoration).	18	Experimental	8	Jupyter Notebook
41	hpc203/low-light-image-enhancement-opencv-dnn 使用OpenCV部署低光照图像增强，包含C++和Python两个版本的程序	18	Experimental	26	C++
42	logic-OT/Deblur-AI This project uses AI to fix blur images of faces. This uses a 5-layered...	18	Experimental	23	Python
43	kdhRick2222/UCMNet [CVPR'26] Official implementation of "UCMNet: Uncertainty-Aware Context...	17	Experimental	3	Python
44	nafis71041/pixelation_correction This is an image de-pixelation project done under Intel Unnati Industrial...	17	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
45	xiaomomy/Shadow Reproduction of ICCV 2015 paper on shadow detection using Leave-One-Out...	16	Experimental	—	Python
46	fourson/Learning-to-dehaze-with-polarization NeurIPS 2021 paper: Learning to Dehaze with Polarization	16	Experimental	41	Python
47	sagarbhavsar1/Single-Image-Dehazing-using-feature-extraction-techniques-in-Deep-Learning This is a novel methodology to perform dehazing process on a single outdoor...	16	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
48	BhanuPrakashPebbeti/UnderWater-Image-Enhancement-using-DAE-UNet Underwater image enhancement has been attracting much attention due to its...	15	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
49	Onewit6143/LFPVS_ICCV 🌟 Enhance low-light images by learning features directly from training data...	14	Experimental	—	Python
50	hamzafer/image-deblurring This repository presents advancements in motion deblurring built on the...	14	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
51	fourson/Polarization-Aware-Low-Light-Image-Enhancement AAAI 2023 paper (Oral): Polarization-Aware Low-Light Image Enhancement	14	Experimental	32	Python
52	StephenChou-0621/image-deblurring-survey Technical survey on image deblurring: traditional optimization-based and...	14	Experimental	—	—
53	chi-kaichen/Trinity-Net K. Chi, Y. Yuan, and Q. Wang*, “Trinity-Net: Gradient-Guided Swin...	13	Experimental	11	—
54	claudiom4sir/VideoRestoration [AIR 2023] Video restoration based on deep learning: a comprehensive survey	12	Experimental	25	—
55	happycode123/ULDB-Dataset ULDB dataset proposed in our paper "Deep Learning-based Cascaded Light...	12	Experimental	3	—
56	MohitLamba94/darkstereo The project is the official implementation of our WACV 2023 paper,...	11	Experimental	—	—
57	MohitLamba94/Restoring-Extremely-Dark-Images-In-Real-Time The project is the official implementation of our CVPR 2021 paper,...	10	Experimental	1	Python

Comparisons in this category

MIRNet and MIRNet-TFJS (40 vs 36)