Iterative Prompt Learning for Unsupervised Backlit Image Enhancement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17569v2
• Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:40:57 GMT
• Title: Iterative Prompt Learning for Unsupervised Backlit Image Enhancement
• Authors: Zhexin Liang, Chongyi Li, Shangchen Zhou, Ruicheng Feng, Chen Change Loy
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel unsupervised backlit image enhancement method, abbreviated as CLIP-LIT. We show that the open-world CLIP prior aids in distinguishing between backlit and well-lit images. Our method alternates between updating the prompt learning framework and enhancement network until visually pleasing results are achieved.
• Score: 86.90993077000789
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We propose a novel unsupervised backlit image enhancement method, abbreviated as CLIP-LIT, by exploring the potential of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) for pixel-level image enhancement. We show that the open-world CLIP prior not only aids in distinguishing between backlit and well-lit images, but also in perceiving heterogeneous regions with different luminance, facilitating the optimization of the enhancement network. Unlike high-level and image manipulation tasks, directly applying CLIP to enhancement tasks is non-trivial, owing to the difficulty in finding accurate prompts. To solve this issue, we devise a prompt learning framework that first learns an initial prompt pair by constraining the text-image similarity between the prompt (negative/positive sample) and the corresponding image (backlit image/well-lit image) in the CLIP latent space. Then, we train the enhancement network based on the text-image similarity between the enhanced result and the initial prompt pair. To further improve the accuracy of the initial prompt pair, we iteratively fine-tune the prompt learning framework to reduce the distribution gaps between the backlit images, enhanced results, and well-lit images via rank learning, boosting the enhancement performance. Our method alternates between updating the prompt learning framework and enhancement network until visually pleasing results are achieved. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of visual quality and generalization ability, without requiring any paired data.

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