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When Extreme Darkness Meets Motion Blur: MeanFlow for Unified RAW Restoration

arXiv 2608.01720 ↗First posted 3 Aug 2026cs.CV cs.AIcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Extremely low-light RAW enhancement aims to recover severely attenuated sensor signals, yet existing methods often focus on illumination and noise while overlooking the motion-induced degradations inherent in practical low-light imaging. We present a framework for robust extremely low-light RAW enhancement under realistic acquisition degradations. First, we introduce See in the Degraded Extremely Dark (SIDED), a new dataset that applies controlled motion degradation to extremely low-light RAW pairs while retaining their original sensor noise. Second, we propose a unified RAW tokenizer equipped with explicit domain-conditioned representation calibration to align extremely low-light and well-exposed RAW data, followed by a MeanFlow that performs enhancement in a single function evaluation. To our knowledge, this is the first work to formulate extremely low-light RAW enhancement under realistic motion-degraded acquisition and address it with MeanFlow. We further introduce a physics-guided refinement model to strengthen illumination--reflectance consistency, pixel fidelity, and color preservation without incurring additional inference cost. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our framework achieves state-of-the-art performance in extremely low-light RAW enhancement, and robustly handles coupled motion and noise degradations.

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  2. 2021Restormer: Efficient Transformer for High-Resolution Image Restorationcited by 1,618
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  6. 2018Learning to See in the Darkcited by 459
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  1. 2023Diff-Retinex: Rethinking Low-light Image Enhancement with A Generative Diffusion Modelcited by 118
  2. 2023AutoDIR: Automatic All-in-One Image Restoration with Latent Diffusioncited by 98
  3. 2022LEDNet: Joint Low-light Enhancement and Deblurring in the Darkcited by 95
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  5. 2020Towards Fast and Light-Weight Restoration of Dark Imagescited by 24
  6. 2024Motion-adaptive Separable Collaborative Filters for Blind Motion Deblurringcited by 20
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  8. 2025Learning to See in the Extremely Darkcited by 11
  9. 2024Retinex-RAWMamba: Bridging Demosaicing and Denoising for Low-Light RAW Image Enhancementcited by 6

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