Mengen Cai

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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0007-8213-6321ORCID · reported

Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper
Image and video processing · 75% Visualization and visual analytics · 25%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Visualization and visual analytics › visual analytics
causal reasoning
0.912025
CWNet: Causal Wavelet Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement · ICCV 2025
Image and video processing
image enhancement
0.912025
CWNet: Causal Wavelet Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement · ICCV 2025
Image and video processing › image enhancement
low-light image enhancement
0.912025
CWNet: Causal Wavelet Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement · ICCV 2025
Image and video processing › image enhancement › multi-scale image enhancement
wavelet-based enhancement
0.912025
CWNet: Causal Wavelet Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement · ICCV 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

wavelet transform · 0.9causal reasoning · 0.9CLIP semantic loss · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 APMoE-Net: Fourier amplitude-phase joint enhancement and MoE compensation for low-light image enhancement
Mengen Cai, Tongshun Zhang, Pingping Liu, Qiuzhan Zhou
Expert Syst. Appl.1
2025 CWNet: Causal Wavelet Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement
abstract
Traditional Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) methods primarily focus on uniform brightness adjustment, often neglecting instance-level semantic information and the inherent characteristics of different features. To address these limitations, we propose CWNet (Causal Wavelet Network), a novel architecture that leverages wavelet transforms for causal reasoning. Specifically, our approach comprises two key components: 1) Inspired by the concept of intervention in causality, we adopt a causal reasoning perspective to reveal the underlying causal relationships in low-light enhancement. From a global perspective, we employ a metric learning strategy to ensure causal embeddings adhere to causal principles, separating them from non-causal confounding factors while focusing on the invariance of causal factors. At the local level, we introduce an instance-level CLIP semantic loss to precisely maintain causal factor consistency. 2) Based on our causal analysis, we present a wavelet transform-based backbone network that effectively optimizes the recovery of frequency information, ensuring precise enhancement tailored to the specific attributes of wavelet transforms. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CWNet significantly outperforms current state-of-the-art methods across multiple datasets, showcasing its robust performance across diverse scenes. Code is available at https://github.com/bywlzts/CWNet-Causal-Wavelet-Network.
Tongshun Zhang, Pingping Liu, Yubing Lu, Mengen Cai, Zijian Zhang 0009, Qiuzhan Zhou
ICCV4