Title
Single low-light image brightening using learning-based intensity mapping
Abstract
Inspired by image-to-curve transformation and multi-exposure fusion, in this paper, we have developed a new method to treat the low light image enhancement tasks as an extended problem with multiple virtual exposures by a non-linear intensity mapping function. Considering that existing image-to-curve methods have difficulty in obtaining the desired detail and brightness recovery in any one iteration without relying on any ground truth, we propose a virtual multi-exposure fusion strategy to merge the outputs from these different iterations. Specifically, a simple CNN is trained to learn a pixel-wise intensity mapping function and accordingly adjust a given image multiple times. Then the results of all iterations are retained together with the original input image for fusion via a WGIF-based Multi-scale pyramid to obtain a final enhanced output. We present experimental results to demonstrate the effectiveness of the new technique and its state-of-the-art performances.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.neucom.2022.08.042
Neurocomputing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Single image brighten,CNN,Unpaired training,Multi-scale fusion
Journal
508
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0925-2312
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaocheng Wang100.34
Ruimin Hu2961117.18
Xin Xu316240.08