VSRELL: A Simple Baseline for Video Super-Resolution and Enhancement in Low-Light Environment

Yanming Hui, Fanhua Shang, Hongying Liu, Ben Wang, Zhenwei Zhang, Liang Wan, Wei Feng, Tong Xue, Bingqin Lv; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026, pp. 16345-16354

We propose an integrated learning scheme of Video Super-Resolution and Enhancement in Low-Light environment, named VSRELL, which aims to recover Well-Illuminated High-Resolution (WIHR) sequence from Low-Light Low-Resolution (LLLR) counterparts. Due to the complex coupling of multiple degradations, this joint task has received relatively little attention. Our approach jointly models illumination enhancement and spatial-temporal super-resolution to disentangle intertwined degradations. Specifically, we introduce an Illumination-Noise Co-Optimization (INCO) network that employs a dynamic window partitioning strategy to explicitly model physical priors of illumination variations and noise distributions within individual frames of a long-term sequence. This effectively suppresses cross-frame noise accumulation and illumination flickering, achieving simultaneous optimization of motion compensation and brightness correction.Additionally, an Illumination-Sensitive Feature Propagation (ISFP) mechanism is introduced, which utilizes hierarchical illumination-sensing gating unit to adaptively modulate feature channel responses. By adjusting feature propagation intensity and using memory feature attenuation strategy, it can enhance the weighting of high-quality features and suppress error accumulation propagation and strengthen transmission efficiency. The experiments show that VSRELL can explicitly strengthen the brightness continuity and texture fidelity of the restored output, maintaining temporal consistency across the video.