Disentangled Contrastive Image Translation for Nighttime Surveillance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05038v1
• Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 06:40:27 GMT
• Title: Disentangled Contrastive Image Translation for Nighttime Surveillance
• Authors: Guanzhou Lan, Bin Zhao, Xuelong Li
• Abstract summary: Nighttime surveillance suffers from degradation due to poor illumination and arduous human annotations. Existing methods rely on multi-spectral images to perceive objects in the dark, which are troubled by low resolution and color absence. We argue that the ultimate solution for nighttime surveillance is night-to-day translation, or Night2Day. This paper contributes a new surveillance dataset called NightSuR. It includes six scenes to support the study on nighttime surveillance.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Nighttime surveillance suffers from degradation due to poor illumination and arduous human annotations. It is challengable and remains a security risk at night. Existing methods rely on multi-spectral images to perceive objects in the dark, which are troubled by low resolution and color absence. We argue that the ultimate solution for nighttime surveillance is night-to-day translation, or Night2Day, which aims to translate a surveillance scene from nighttime to the daytime while maintaining semantic consistency. To achieve this, this paper presents a Disentangled Contrastive (DiCo) learning method. Specifically, to address the poor and complex illumination in the nighttime scenes, we propose a learnable physical prior, i.e., the color invariant, which provides a stable perception of a highly dynamic night environment and can be incorporated into the learning pipeline of neural networks. Targeting the surveillance scenes, we develop a disentangled representation, which is an auxiliary pretext task that separates surveillance scenes into the foreground and background with contrastive learning. Such a strategy can extract the semantics without supervision and boost our model to achieve instance-aware translation. Finally, we incorporate all the modules above into generative adversarial networks and achieve high-fidelity translation. This paper also contributes a new surveillance dataset called NightSuR. It includes six scenes to support the study on nighttime surveillance. This dataset collects nighttime images with different properties of nighttime environments, such as flare and extreme darkness. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms existing works significantly. The dataset and source code will be released on GitHub soon.

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