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Image Enhancement Techniques

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Linfeng Tang
Wuhan University
2
Yifan Jiang
The University of Texas at Austin
3
Wenhai Wang
Zhejiang University
4
Jierun Chen
Snap (United States)
5
Hanting Chen
Huawei Technologies (Sweden)
6
Yuda Song
Zhejiang University
7
Yuning Cui
Technical University of Munich
8
Zixuan Chen
Zhejiang University
9
Lintao Peng
Nanyang Technological University
10
Xinyu Jia
Hebei University of Technology

Rising Stars Papers

1
DEA-Net: Single Image Dehazing Based on Detail-Enhanced Convolution and Content-Guided Attention
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2024
759 cit.
2
Omni-Kernel Network for Image Restoration
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence|2024
222 cit.
3
Revitalizing Convolutional Network for Image Restoration
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2024
179 cit.
4
EENet: An effective and efficient network for single image dehazing
Pattern Recognition|2024
70 cit.
5
DRMF: Degradation-Robust Multi-Modal Image Fusion via Composable Diffusion Prior
Unknown Journal|2024
31 cit.
6
C2RF: Bridging Multi-modal Image Registration and Fusion via Commonality Mining and Contrastive Learning
International Journal of Computer Vision|2025
31 cit.
7
Modumer: Modulating Transformer for Image Restoration
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems|2025
30 cit.
8
Omni-Kernel Modulation for Universal Image Restoration
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology|2024
26 cit.
9
Data features-based Bayesian learning for time-domain model updating and robust predictions in structural dynamics
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing|2024
19 cit.
10
Exploring the Potential of Pooling Techniques for Universal Image Restoration
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2025
19 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Zhangyang Wang
The University of Texas at Austin
2
Chongyi Li
Nankai University
3
Runmin Cong
Beijing Jiaotong University
4
Jung-Woo Ha
Naver (South Korea)
5
Adam Bry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6
Houwen Peng
Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)
7
Abhishek Kar
Google (United States)
8
Tali Treibitz
University of Haifa
9
Ya Li
Minzu University of China
10
Qifeng Chen
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Decoupling Network
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement|2022
964 cit.
2
Underwater Image Enhancement via Minimal Color Loss and Locally Adaptive Contrast Enhancement
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2022
792 cit.
3
Image Dehazing Transformer with Transmission-Aware 3D Position Embedding
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
484 cit.
4
Underwater Image Enhancement With Hyper-Laplacian Reflectance Priors
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2022
479 cit.
5
Underwater Image Enhancement via Weighted Wavelet Visual Perception Fusion
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology|2023
338 cit.
6
Underwater Image Enhancement by Attenuated Color Channel Correction and Detail Preserved Contrast Enhancement
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering|2022
313 cit.
7
PUGAN: Physical Model-Guided Underwater Image Enhancement Using GAN With Dual-Discriminators
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2023
285 cit.
8
High-Fidelity GAN Inversion for Image Attribute Editing
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
229 cit.
9
Non-Uniform Illumination Underwater Image Restoration via Illumination Channel Sparsity Prior
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology|2023
201 cit.
10
CIR-Net: Cross-Modality Interaction and Refinement for RGB-D Salient Object Detection
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2022
197 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Alan C. Bovik
The University of Texas at Austin
2
Shree K. Nayar
Faculty of 1000 (United States)
3
Ming–Hsuan Yang
University of California, Merced
4
Ramin Zabih
Cornell University
5
Ling Shao
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
6
Pat Hanrahan
Stanford University
7
Jiayi Ma
Wuhan University
8
Frédo Durand
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9
Philip H. S. Torr
University of Oxford
10
Jorge Batista
Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Fast approximate energy minimization via graph cuts
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2001
7k cit.
2
Making a “Completely Blind” Image Quality Analyzer
IEEE Signal Processing Letters|2012
6.4k cit.
3
Multiscale structural similarity for image quality assessment
Unknown Journal|2004
5.9k cit.
4
High-Speed Tracking with Kernelized Correlation Filters
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2014
5.8k cit.
5
No-Reference Image Quality Assessment in the Spatial Domain
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2012
5.8k cit.
6
A universal image quality index
IEEE Signal Processing Letters|2002
5.7k cit.
7
Pyramid Vision Transformer: A Versatile Backbone for Dense Prediction without Convolutions
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)|2021
4.7k cit.
8
Online Object Tracking: A Benchmark
Unknown Journal|2013
4.1k cit.
9
Image information and visual quality
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2006
4k cit.
10
Light field rendering
Unknown Journal|1996
3.7k cit.

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