Bidirectional Image-Event Guided Fusion Framework for Low-Light Image Enhancement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06120v2
• Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:47:02 GMT
• Title: Bidirectional Image-Event Guided Fusion Framework for Low-Light Image Enhancement
• Authors: Zhanwen Liu, Huanna Song, Yang Wang, Nan Yang, Weiping Ding, Yisheng An,
• Abstract summary: Under extreme low-light conditions, frame-based cameras suffer from severe detail loss due to limited dynamic range.<n>Recent studies have introduced event cameras for event-guided low-light image enhancement.<n>We propose BiLIE, a Bidirectional image-event guided fusion framework for Low-Light Image Enhancement.
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• Abstract: Under extreme low-light conditions, frame-based cameras suffer from severe detail loss due to limited dynamic range. Recent studies have introduced event cameras for event-guided low-light image enhancement. However, existing approaches often overlook the flickering artifacts and structural discontinuities caused by dynamic illumination changes and event sparsity. To address these challenges, we propose BiLIE, a Bidirectional image-event guided fusion framework for Low-Light Image Enhancement, which achieves mutual guidance and complementary enhancement between the two modalities. First, to highlight edge details, we develop a Dynamic Adaptive Filtering Enhancement (DAFE) module that performs adaptive high-pass filtering on event representations to suppress flickering artifacts and preserve high-frequency information under varying illumination. Subsequently, we design a Bidirectional Guided Awareness Fusion (BGAF) mechanism, which achieves breakpoint-aware restoration from images to events and structure-aware enhancement from events to images through a two-stage attention mechanism, establishing cross-modal consistency, thereby producing a clear, smooth, and structurally intact fused representation. Moreover, recognizing that existing datasets exhibit insufficient ground-truth fidelity and color accuracy, we construct a high-quality low-light image-event dataset (RELIE) via a reliable ground truth refinement scheme. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms existing approaches on both the RELIE and LIE datasets. Notably, on RELIE, BiLIE exceeds the state-of-the-art by 0.81dB in PSNR and shows significant advantages in edge restoration, color fidelity, and noise suppression.

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