LRT: An Efficient Low-Light Restoration Transformer for Dark Light Field Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02197v1
• Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 03:23:58 GMT
• Title: LRT: An Efficient Low-Light Restoration Transformer for Dark Light Field Images
• Authors: Shansi Zhang and Nan Meng and Edmund Y. Lam
• Abstract summary: Recent learning-based methods for low-light enhancement have their own disadvantages. We propose an efficient Low-light Restoration Transformer (LRT) for LF images. We show that our method can achieve superior performance on the restoration of extremely low-light and noisy LF images.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Light field (LF) images with the multi-view property have many applications, which can be severely affected by the low-light imaging. Recent learning-based methods for low-light enhancement have their own disadvantages, such as no noise suppression, complex training process and poor performance in extremely low-light conditions. Targeted on solving these deficiencies while fully utilizing the multi-view information, we propose an efficient Low-light Restoration Transformer (LRT) for LF images, with multiple heads to perform specific intermediate tasks, including denoising, luminance adjustment, refinement and detail enhancement, within a single network, achieving progressive restoration from small scale to full scale. We design an angular transformer block with a view-token scheme to model the global angular relationship efficiently, and a multi-scale window-based transformer block to encode the multi-scale local and global spatial information. To solve the problem of insufficient training data, we formulate a synthesis pipeline by simulating the major noise with the estimated noise parameters of LF camera. Experimental results demonstrate that our method can achieve superior performance on the restoration of extremely low-light and noisy LF images with high efficiency.

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