In order to improve image quality, a novel Retinex algorithm for image enhancement was presented. Different from conventional algorithms, it was based on certain defined points containing the illumination information ...In order to improve image quality, a novel Retinex algorithm for image enhancement was presented. Different from conventional algorithms, it was based on certain defined points containing the illumination information in the intensity image to estimate the illumination. After locating the points, the whole illumination image was computed by an interpolation technique. When attempting to recover the reflectance image, an adaptive method which can be considered as an optimization problem was employed to suppress noise in dark environments and keep details in other areas. For color images, it was taken in the band of each channel separately. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is superior to the traditional Retinex algorithms in image entropy.展开更多
Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the visibility of severely degraded images captured under insufficient illumination,alleviating the adverse effects of illumination degradation on image quality.Traditional ...Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the visibility of severely degraded images captured under insufficient illumination,alleviating the adverse effects of illumination degradation on image quality.Traditional Retinex-based approaches,inspired by human visual perception of brightness and color,decompose an image into illumination and reflectance components to restore fine details.However,their limited capacity for handling noise and complex lighting conditions often leads to distortions and artifacts in the enhanced results,particularly under extreme low-light scenarios.Although deep learning methods built upon Retinex theory have recently advanced the field,most still suffer frominsufficient interpretability and sub-optimal enhancement performance.This paper presents RetinexWT,a novel framework that tightly integrates classical Retinex theory with modern deep learning.Following Retinex principles,RetinexWT employs wavelet transforms to estimate illumination maps for brightness adjustment.A detail-recovery module that synergistically combines Vision Transformer(ViT)and wavelet transforms is then introduced to guide the restoration of lost details,thereby improving overall image quality.Within the framework,wavelet decomposition splits input features into high-frequency and low-frequency components,enabling scale-specific processing of global illumination/color cues and fine textures.Furthermore,a gating mechanism selectively fuses down-sampled and up-sampled features,while an attention-based fusion strategy enhances model interpretability.Extensive experiments on the LOL dataset demonstrate that RetinexWT surpasses existing Retinex-oriented deeplearning methods,achieving an average Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio(PSNR)improvement of 0.22 dB over the current StateOfTheArt(SOTA),thereby confirming its superiority in low-light image enhancement.Code is available at https://github.com/CHEN-hJ516/RetinexWT(accessed on 14 October 2025).展开更多
基金Project(61071162) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘In order to improve image quality, a novel Retinex algorithm for image enhancement was presented. Different from conventional algorithms, it was based on certain defined points containing the illumination information in the intensity image to estimate the illumination. After locating the points, the whole illumination image was computed by an interpolation technique. When attempting to recover the reflectance image, an adaptive method which can be considered as an optimization problem was employed to suppress noise in dark environments and keep details in other areas. For color images, it was taken in the band of each channel separately. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is superior to the traditional Retinex algorithms in image entropy.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[Grant number 62471075]the Major Science and Technology Project Grant of the Chongqing Municipal Education Commission[Grant number KJZD-M202301901].
文摘Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the visibility of severely degraded images captured under insufficient illumination,alleviating the adverse effects of illumination degradation on image quality.Traditional Retinex-based approaches,inspired by human visual perception of brightness and color,decompose an image into illumination and reflectance components to restore fine details.However,their limited capacity for handling noise and complex lighting conditions often leads to distortions and artifacts in the enhanced results,particularly under extreme low-light scenarios.Although deep learning methods built upon Retinex theory have recently advanced the field,most still suffer frominsufficient interpretability and sub-optimal enhancement performance.This paper presents RetinexWT,a novel framework that tightly integrates classical Retinex theory with modern deep learning.Following Retinex principles,RetinexWT employs wavelet transforms to estimate illumination maps for brightness adjustment.A detail-recovery module that synergistically combines Vision Transformer(ViT)and wavelet transforms is then introduced to guide the restoration of lost details,thereby improving overall image quality.Within the framework,wavelet decomposition splits input features into high-frequency and low-frequency components,enabling scale-specific processing of global illumination/color cues and fine textures.Furthermore,a gating mechanism selectively fuses down-sampled and up-sampled features,while an attention-based fusion strategy enhances model interpretability.Extensive experiments on the LOL dataset demonstrate that RetinexWT surpasses existing Retinex-oriented deeplearning methods,achieving an average Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio(PSNR)improvement of 0.22 dB over the current StateOfTheArt(SOTA),thereby confirming its superiority in low-light image enhancement.Code is available at https://github.com/CHEN-hJ516/RetinexWT(accessed on 14 October 2025).
