Learning Semantic-Aware Knowledge Guidance for Low-Light Image Enhancement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07039v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 10:22:28 GMT
• Title: Learning Semantic-Aware Knowledge Guidance for Low-Light Image Enhancement
• Authors: Yuhui Wu, Chen Pan, Guoqing Wang, Yang Yang, Jiwei Wei, Chongyi Li, Heng Tao Shen
• Abstract summary: Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) investigates how to improve illumination and produce normal-light images. The majority of existing methods improve low-light images via a global and uniform manner, without taking into account the semantic information of different regions. We propose a novel semantic-aware knowledge-guided framework that can assist a low-light enhancement model in learning rich and diverse priors encapsulated in a semantic segmentation model.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) investigates how to improve illumination and produce normal-light images. The majority of existing methods improve low-light images via a global and uniform manner, without taking into account the semantic information of different regions. Without semantic priors, a network may easily deviate from a region's original color. To address this issue, we propose a novel semantic-aware knowledge-guided framework (SKF) that can assist a low-light enhancement model in learning rich and diverse priors encapsulated in a semantic segmentation model. We concentrate on incorporating semantic knowledge from three key aspects: a semantic-aware embedding module that wisely integrates semantic priors in feature representation space, a semantic-guided color histogram loss that preserves color consistency of various instances, and a semantic-guided adversarial loss that produces more natural textures by semantic priors. Our SKF is appealing in acting as a general framework in LLIE task. Extensive experiments show that models equipped with the SKF significantly outperform the baselines on multiple datasets and our SKF generalizes to different models and scenes well. The code is available at Semantic-Aware-Low-Light-Image-Enhancement.

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