61 research outputs found
Edge Enhancement from Low-Light Image by Convolutional Neural Network and Sigmoid Function
Due to camera resolution or any lighting condition, captured image are generally over-exposed or under-exposed conditions. So, there is need of some enhancement techniques that improvise these artifacts from recorded pictures or images. So, the objective of image enhancement and adjustment techniques is to improve the quality and characteristics of an image. In general terms, the enhancement of image distorts the original numerical values of an image. Therefore, it is required to design such enhancement technique that do not compromise with the quality of the image. The optimization of the image extracts the characteristics of the image instead of restoring the degraded image. The improvement of the image involves the degraded image processing and the improvement of its visual aspect. A lot of research has been done to improve the image. Many research works have been done in this field. One among them is deep learning. Most of the existing contrast enhancement methods, adjust the tone curve to correct the contrast of an input image but doesn’t work efficiently due to limited amount of information contained in a single image. In this research, the CNN with edge adjustment is proposed. By applying CNN with Edge adjustment technique, the input low contrast images are capable to adapt according to high quality enhancement. The result analysis shows that the developed technique significantly advantages over existing methods
DPFNet: A Dual-branch Dilated Network with Phase-aware Fourier Convolution for Low-light Image Enhancement
Low-light image enhancement is a classical computer vision problem aiming to
recover normal-exposure images from low-light images. However, convolutional
neural networks commonly used in this field are good at sampling low-frequency
local structural features in the spatial domain, which leads to unclear texture
details of the reconstructed images. To alleviate this problem, we propose a
novel module using the Fourier coefficients, which can recover high-quality
texture details under the constraint of semantics in the frequency phase and
supplement the spatial domain. In addition, we design a simple and efficient
module for the image spatial domain using dilated convolutions with different
receptive fields to alleviate the loss of detail caused by frequent
downsampling. We integrate the above parts into an end-to-end dual branch
network and design a novel loss committee and an adaptive fusion module to
guide the network to flexibly combine spatial and frequency domain features to
generate more pleasing visual effects. Finally, we evaluate the proposed
network on public benchmarks. Extensive experimental results show that our
method outperforms many existing state-of-the-art ones, showing outstanding
performance and potential
KinD-LCE Curve Estimation And Retinex Fusion On Low-Light Image
Low-light images often suffer from noise and color distortion. Object
detection, semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, and other tasks are
challenging when working with low-light images because of image noise and
chromatic aberration. We also found that the conventional Retinex theory loses
information in adjusting the image for low-light tasks. In response to the
aforementioned problem, this paper proposes an algorithm for low illumination
enhancement. The proposed method, KinD-LCE, uses a light curve estimation
module to enhance the illumination map in the Retinex decomposed image,
improving the overall image brightness. An illumination map and reflection map
fusion module were also proposed to restore the image details and reduce detail
loss. Additionally, a TV(total variation) loss function was applied to
eliminate noise. Our method was trained on the GladNet dataset, known for its
diverse collection of low-light images, tested against the Low-Light dataset,
and evaluated using the ExDark dataset for downstream tasks, demonstrating
competitive performance with a PSNR of 19.7216 and SSIM of 0.8213.Comment: Accepted by Signal, Image and Video Processin
Enhancing Low-Light Images Using Infrared-Encoded Images
Low-light image enhancement task is essential yet challenging as it is
ill-posed intrinsically. Previous arts mainly focus on the low-light images
captured in the visible spectrum using pixel-wise loss, which limits the
capacity of recovering the brightness, contrast, and texture details due to the
small number of income photons. In this work, we propose a novel approach to
increase the visibility of images captured under low-light environments by
removing the in-camera infrared (IR) cut-off filter, which allows for the
capture of more photons and results in improved signal-to-noise ratio due to
the inclusion of information from the IR spectrum. To verify the proposed
strategy, we collect a paired dataset of low-light images captured without the
IR cut-off filter, with corresponding long-exposure reference images with an
external filter. The experimental results on the proposed dataset demonstrate
the effectiveness of the proposed method, showing better performance
quantitatively and qualitatively. The dataset and code are publicly available
at https://wyf0912.github.io/ELIEI/Comment: The first two authors contribute equally. The work is accepted by
ICIP 202
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