Title
Low-Light Image Enhancement for UAVs With Multi-Feature Fusion Deep Neural Networks
Abstract
Object detection in low-light aerial images is a challenging problem due to considerable variation in brightness and varying contrast. Deep learning-based approaches have recently demonstrated great promise in image enhancement. Many existing neural networks used for image quality enhancement first encode the input into low-resolution representations and then decode these representations back to a higher resolution for the contextual information. However, this method leads to the loss of semantic content. Recent research has demonstrated the advantage of maintaining high-resolution information along with lower resolution representations, which maintains image features throughout the network. In this letter, we propose a novel architecture named RNet for low-light image enhancement of aerial images. The proposed network contains multiresolution branches for better understanding of different levels of local and global context through different streams. The performance of RNet is evaluated on a recent synthetic dataset. We also present a comprehensive evaluation with a representative set of state-of-the-art enhancement techniques and neural net architectures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/LGRS.2022.3181106
IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Image resolution, Image enhancement, Streaming media, Training, Lighting, Feature extraction, Measurement, Deep learning, image enhancement, low-light vision, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
Journal
19
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1545-598X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anirudh Singh100.34
Amit Chougule200.34
Pratik Narang36011.31
Vinay Chamola400.34
Fei Yu55116335.58