Low-Light Image Enhancement with Wavelet-based Diffusion Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00306v3
• Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 04:57:23 GMT
• Title: Low-Light Image Enhancement with Wavelet-based Diffusion Models
• Authors: Hai Jiang, Ao Luo, Songchen Han, Haoqiang Fan, Shuaicheng Liu
• Abstract summary: Diffusion models have achieved promising results in image restoration tasks, yet suffer from time-consuming, excessive computational resource consumption, and unstable restoration. We propose a robust and efficient Diffusion-based Low-Light image enhancement approach, dubbed DiffLL.
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• Abstract: Diffusion models have achieved promising results in image restoration tasks, yet suffer from time-consuming, excessive computational resource consumption, and unstable restoration. To address these issues, we propose a robust and efficient Diffusion-based Low-Light image enhancement approach, dubbed DiffLL. Specifically, we present a wavelet-based conditional diffusion model (WCDM) that leverages the generative power of diffusion models to produce results with satisfactory perceptual fidelity. Additionally, it also takes advantage of the strengths of wavelet transformation to greatly accelerate inference and reduce computational resource usage without sacrificing information. To avoid chaotic content and diversity, we perform both forward diffusion and denoising in the training phase of WCDM, enabling the model to achieve stable denoising and reduce randomness during inference. Moreover, we further design a high-frequency restoration module (HFRM) that utilizes the vertical and horizontal details of the image to complement the diagonal information for better fine-grained restoration. Extensive experiments on publicly available real-world benchmarks demonstrate that our method outperforms the existing state-of-the-art methods both quantitatively and visually, and it achieves remarkable improvements in efficiency compared to previous diffusion-based methods. In addition, we empirically show that the application for low-light face detection also reveals the latent practical values of our method. Code is available at https://github.com/JianghaiSCU/Diffusion-Low-Light.

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