Dynamically Activated De-Glaring and Detail- Recovery for Low-Light Image Enhancement Directly on Smart Cameras

IF 5.1 2区 计算机科学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Shao-Wei Dong;Ching-Hu Lu
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Abstract

Low-light conditions often significantly affect the stability of a computer-vision system. Existing studies of unpaired-learning-based low-light image enhancement do not consider glare that occurs during the night, which can lead to significant degradation of image quality. To improve image quality, our study proposes an additional enhancement module that can be applied to existing methods. That is, our proposed “lightweight low-light image de-glaring network” can remove glare from low-light images. We also propose a “low-light image-detail-recovery network” to enhance the boundary details of low-light images after removing glare to further improve image quality. The experimental results show that our proposed approaches can effectively improve low-light image quality. In addition, we propose “dynamically activated de-glaring” to assess the quality of input images first to determine whether de-glaring should be undertaken in order to effectively utilize the computational resources of a smart camera and avoid unnecessary image enhancement. The experimental results show that running time and frames per second can be greatly improved when applied to real-world scenarios.
直接在智能相机上动态激活去光晕和细节恢复功能,以增强弱光下的图像效果
弱光条件通常会显著影响计算机视觉系统的稳定性。现有的基于非配对学习的弱光图像增强研究没有考虑夜间发生的眩光,这可能导致图像质量的显著下降。为了提高图像质量,我们的研究提出了一个额外的增强模块,可以应用于现有的方法。也就是说,我们提出的“轻量级弱光图像去眩光网络”可以消除弱光图像中的眩光。我们还提出了一种“弱光图像-细节-恢复网络”,增强弱光图像去除眩光后的边界细节,进一步提高图像质量。实验结果表明,本文提出的方法可以有效地改善弱光图像质量。此外,我们提出“动态激活去眩光”,首先评估输入图像的质量,以确定是否需要进行去眩光,从而有效地利用智能相机的计算资源,避免不必要的图像增强。实验结果表明,应用于实际场景时,可以大大提高运行时间和每秒帧数。
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IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing Computer Science-Computer Science (miscellaneous)
CiteScore
12.10
自引率
5.10%
发文量
113
期刊介绍: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing publishes papers on emerging aspects of computer science, computing technology, and computing applications not currently covered by other IEEE Computer Society Transactions. Some examples of emerging topics in computing include: IT for Green, Synthetic and organic computing structures and systems, Advanced analytics, Social/occupational computing, Location-based/client computer systems, Morphic computer design, Electronic game systems, & Health-care IT.
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