14 March 2024 Low-light image enhancement via multistage Laplacian feature fusion
Zhenbing Liu, Yingxin Huang, Ruojie Zhang, Haoxiang Lu, Wenhao Wang, Zhaoyuan Zhang
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Abstract

Low-light images inevitably suffer from degradation problems during the enhancement process, such as loss of detail and local overexposure or underexposure. Many existing methods target only one of these issues, leading to suboptimal results. We propose a multistage Laplacian feature fusion network (MLFFNet) capable of simultaneously mitigating both degradation difficulties. MLFFNet employs a pyramid framework that incrementally learns the degradation functions across various frequency bands, leveraging Laplacian feature maps at each stage. A key innovation of our approach is the supervised refinement module, which refines features through a dual strategy: an attention mechanism that enriches the detail capture, including edges, textures, and colors, and a residual mechanism that adjusts the luminance for a balanced exposure. The resultant enhanced image benefits from channel-wise attention, ensuring superior enhancement. Finally, the enhanced image is acquired by several channel attention blocks. Extensive experiments on various datasets indicate that our proposed MLFFNet outperforms the state-of-the-art methods both qualitatively and quantitatively.

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Zhenbing Liu, Yingxin Huang, Ruojie Zhang, Haoxiang Lu, Wenhao Wang, and Zhaoyuan Zhang "Low-light image enhancement via multistage Laplacian feature fusion," Journal of Electronic Imaging 33(2), 023020 (14 March 2024). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.33.2.023020
Received: 21 July 2023; Accepted: 5 February 2024; Published: 14 March 2024
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KEYWORDS
Image enhancement

Image restoration

Light sources and illumination

Education and training

Visualization

Image quality

Feature fusion

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