Shed Various Lights on a Low-Light Image: Multi-Level Enhancement Guided by Arbitrary References

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00813v1
• Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 07:38:51 GMT
• Title: Shed Various Lights on a Low-Light Image: Multi-Level Enhancement Guided by Arbitrary References
• Authors: Ya'nan Wang, Zhuqing Jiang, Chang Liu, Kai Li, Aidong Men, Haiying Wang
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a neural network for multi-level low-light image enhancement. Inspired by style transfer, our method decomposes an image into two low-coupling feature components in the latent space. In such a way, the network learns to extract scene-invariant and brightness-specific information from a set of image pairs.
• Score: 17.59529931863947
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: It is suggested that low-light image enhancement realizes one-to-many mapping since we have different definitions of NORMAL-light given application scenarios or users' aesthetic. However, most existing methods ignore subjectivity of the task, and simply produce one result with fixed brightness. This paper proposes a neural network for multi-level low-light image enhancement, which is user-friendly to meet various requirements by selecting different images as brightness reference. Inspired by style transfer, our method decomposes an image into two low-coupling feature components in the latent space, which allows the concatenation feasibility of the content components from low-light images and the luminance components from reference images. In such a way, the network learns to extract scene-invariant and brightness-specific information from a set of image pairs instead of learning brightness differences. Moreover, information except for the brightness is preserved to the greatest extent to alleviate color distortion. Extensive results show strong capacity and superiority of our network against existing methods.

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