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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION
Volume 131, Issue 1, Pages 48-66Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-022-01667-9
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Low-light image enhancement; Image decomposition; Divide and rule
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This paper presents a novel framework for addressing the complex degradation issues of images captured in low-light environments. By decomposing the image into texture and color components, and performing noise removal, color correction, and light adjustment, the framework achieves satisfactory lighting, cleanliness, and realism.
Images captured in low-light environments often suffer from complex degradation. Simply adjusting light would inevitably result in burst of hidden noise and color distortion. To seek results with satisfied lighting, cleanliness, and realism from degraded inputs, this paper presents a novel framework inspired by the divide-and-rule principle, greatly alleviating the degradation entanglement. Assuming that an image can be decomposed into texture (with possible noise) and color components, one can specifically execute noise removal and color correction along with light adjustment. For this purpose, we propose to convert an image from the RGB colorspace into a luminance-chrominance one. An adjustable noise suppression network is designed to eliminate noise in the brightened luminance, having the illumination map estimated to indicate noise amplification levels. The enhanced luminance further serves as guidance for the chrominance mapper to generate realistic colors. Extensive experiments are conducted to reveal the effectiveness of our design, and demonstrate its superiority over state-of-the-art alternatives both quantitatively and qualitatively on several benchmark datasets. Our code has been made publicly available at https://github. com/m ngcv/Bread.
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