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Hierarchical guided network for low‐light image enhancement
Author(s) -
Feng Xiaomei,
Li Jinjiang,
Fan Hui
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iet image processing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.401
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1751-9667
pISSN - 1751-9659
DOI - 10.1049/ipr2.12321
Subject(s) - computer science , pyramid (geometry) , artificial intelligence , decoding methods , brightness , feature (linguistics) , computer vision , encoding (memory) , pattern recognition (psychology) , structured light , algorithm , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , physics , geometry , optics
Due to insufficient illumination in low‐light conditions, the brightness and contrast of the captured images are low, which affect the processing of other computer vision tasks. Low‐light enhancement is a challenging task that requires simultaneous processing of colour, brightness, contrast, artefacts and noise. To solve this problem, the authors apply the deep residual network to the low‐light enhancement task, and propose a hierarchical guided low‐light enhancement network. The key of this method is recombined hierarchical guided features through the feature aggregation module to realize low‐light enhancement. The network is based on the U‐Net network, and then hierarchically guided with the input pyramid branch in the encoding and decoding network. The input pyramid structure realizes multi‐level receptive fields and generates a hierarchical representation. The encoding and decoding structure concatenates the hierarchical features of the input pyramid and generates a set of hierarchical features. Finally, the feature aggregation module is used to fuse different features to achieve low‐light enhancement tasks. The effectiveness of the components is proved through ablation experiments. In addition, the authors are also evaluating on different data sets, and the experimental results show that the method proposed is superior to other methods in subjective and objective evaluation.

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