BLNet: A Fast Deep Learning Framework for Low-Light Image Enhancement with Noise Removal and Color Restoration

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15953v1
• Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 10:06:16 GMT
• Title: BLNet: A Fast Deep Learning Framework for Low-Light Image Enhancement with Noise Removal and Color Restoration
• Authors: Xinxu Wei, Xianshi Zhang, Shisen Wang, Cheng Cheng, Yanlin Huang, Kaifu Yang, and Yongjie Li
• Abstract summary: We propose a very fast deep learning framework called Bringing the Lightness (denoted as BLNet) Based on Retinex Theory, the decomposition net in our model can decompose low-light images into reflectance and illumination. We conduct extensive experiments to demonstrate that our approach achieves a promising effect with good rubustness and generalization.
• Score: 14.75902042351609
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Images obtained in real-world low-light conditions are not only low in brightness, but they also suffer from many other types of degradation, such as color bias, unknown noise, detail loss and halo artifacts. In this paper, we propose a very fast deep learning framework called Bringing the Lightness (denoted as BLNet) that consists of two U-Nets with a series of well-designed loss functions to tackle all of the above degradations. Based on Retinex Theory, the decomposition net in our model can decompose low-light images into reflectance and illumination and remove noise in the reflectance during the decomposition phase. We propose a Noise and Color Bias Control module (NCBC Module) that contains a convolutional neural network and two loss functions (noise loss and color loss). This module is only used to calculate the loss functions during the training phase, so our method is very fast during the test phase. This module can smooth the reflectance to achieve the purpose of noise removal while preserving details and edge information and controlling color bias. We propose a network that can be trained to learn the mapping between low-light and normal-light illumination and enhance the brightness of images taken in low-light illumination. We train and evaluate the performance of our proposed model over the real-world Low-Light (LOL) dataset), and we also test our model over several other frequently used datasets (LIME, DICM and MEF datasets). We conduct extensive experiments to demonstrate that our approach achieves a promising effect with good rubustness and generalization and outperforms many other state-of-the-art methods qualitatively and quantitatively. Our method achieves high speed because we use loss functions instead of introducing additional denoisers for noise removal and color correction. The code and model are available at https://github.com/weixinxu666/BLNet.

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