Title
Low-Light Image Enhancement via a Deep Hybrid Network.
Abstract
Camera sensors often fail to capture clear images or videos in a poorly-lit environment. In this paper, we propose a trainable hybrid network to enhance the visibility of such degraded images. The proposed network consists of two distinct streams to simultaneously learn the global content and salient structures of the clear image in a unified network. More specifically, the content stream estimates the global content of the low-light input through an encoder-decoder network. However, the encoder in the content stream tends to lose some structure details. To remedy this, we propose a novel spatially variant recurrent neural network (RNN) as an edge stream to model edge details, with the guidance of another auto-encoder. Experimental results show that the proposed network performs favorably against the state-of-the-art low-light image enhancement algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TIP.2019.2910412
IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Keywords
Field
DocType
Low-light image enhancement,convolutional neural network,recurrent neural network
Computer vision,Visibility,Pattern recognition,Image sensor,Convolutional neural network,Recurrent neural network,Encoder,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics,Salient
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
9
1941-0042
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
23
0.63
0
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wenqi Ren133527.14
Sifei Liu222717.54
Lin Ma391271.35
Qianqian Xu416022.98
Xiangyu Xu51435.66
Xiaochun Cao61986131.55
Junping Du778991.80
Yang Ming-Hsuan815303620.69