Rethinking Efficient Hierarchical Mixing Architecture for Low-light RAW Image Enhancement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15497v1
• Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:09:38 GMT
• Title: Rethinking Efficient Hierarchical Mixing Architecture for Low-light RAW Image Enhancement
• Authors: Xianmin Chen, Peiliang Huang, Longfei Han, Dingwen Zhang, Junwei Han,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a Hierarchical Mixing Architecture (HiMA) for efficient low-light image signal processing (ISP)<n>HiMA leverages the complementary strengths of Transformer and Mamba modules to handle features at large and small scales.<n>To address uneven illumination with strong local variations, we propose Local Distribution Adjustment (LoDA)<n>In addition, to fully exploit the denoised outputs from the first stage, we design a Multi-prior Fusion (MPF) module.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Low-light RAW image enhancement remains a challenging task. Although numerous deep learning based approaches have been proposed, they still suffer from inherent limitations. A key challenge is how to simultaneously achieve strong enhancement quality and high efficiency. In this paper, we rethink the architecture for efficient low-light image signal processing (ISP) and introduce a Hierarchical Mixing Architecture (HiMA). HiMA leverages the complementary strengths of Transformer and Mamba modules to handle features at large and small scales, respectively, thereby improving efficiency while avoiding the ambiguities observed in prior two-stage frameworks. To further address uneven illumination with strong local variations, we propose Local Distribution Adjustment (LoDA), which adaptively aligns feature distributions across different local regions. In addition, to fully exploit the denoised outputs from the first stage, we design a Multi-prior Fusion (MPF) module that integrates spatial and frequency-domain priors for detail enhancement. Extensive experiments on multiple public datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches, achieving superior performance with fewer parameters. Code will be released at https://github.com/Cynicarlos/HiMA.

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