AI RESEARCH

BFORE: Butterfly-Firefly Optimized Retinex Enhancement for Low-Light Image Quality Improvement

arXiv CS.CV

ArXi:2605.03509v1 Announce Type: new Low-light image enhancement is a fundamental challenge in computer vision and multimedia applications, as images captured under insufficient illumination suffer from poor visibility, low contrast, and color distortion. Existing Retinex-based methods rely on manually tuned parameters that fail to generalize across diverse lighting conditions. This paper proposes BFORE (Butterfly-Firefly Optimized Retinex Enhancement), a novel hybrid metaheuristic-optimized framework that automatically tunes the parameters of a multi-stage Retinex-based pipeline.