arXiv Computer Vision

Bidirectional Cross-frequency Domain Interaction Network for UHD Low-Light Image Enhancement

arXiv Computer Vision
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PRIN: A Perceptual-Structural Retinex-Inspired Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement

The paper introduces PRIN, a Perceptual-Structural Retinex-Inspired Network designed for low‑light image enhancement. PRIN uses a shared encoder with asymmetric decoders to separately refine reflectance and illumination components, applying attention‑guided wavelet refinement for textures and edge preservation in the reflectance branch and spatially coherent brightness adjustment in the illumination branch. A curve‑based post‑composition head further corrects tone and exposure, achieving state‑of‑the‑art SSIM, LPIPS, and PSNR results on multiple LOL datasets.

By Qiyi Xie, Wei Chen Ng, Ziyao Li, Yuning Wu, Huasen Wu, Tianshi Miao, Jian Ding Tan
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28

IDM-Net: A Lightweight Illumination-Decoupled Modulation Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement

IDM-Net is a lightweight Illumination-Decoupled Modulation Network designed for low-light image enhancement. It uses a dual-encoder architecture: a structure encoder extracts multi-scale appearance features from the RGB image, while a lightweight illumination encoder learns illumination priors from the decoupled luminance channel. An Illumination-Guided Modulation module injects these priors into the decoder via spatially adaptive affine modulation, and a Feature Refinement Block progressively suppresses artifacts and recovers fine details, achieving competitive performance on standard benchmarks with good balance between quality and efficiency.

By Cheng-Yen Hsiao, Jing-Ming Guo
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 23

GLOW-FM: Efficient Generative Low-Light Image Enhancement with One-Step Latent Flow Matching

GLOW-FM is a one‑step latent flow‑matching framework designed for efficient generative low‑light image enhancement (LLIE). It operates in the latent space of a frozen Tiny‑VAE, using Terminal Velocity Matching (TVM) to achieve high‑quality enhancement with a single function evaluation. Experiments on real‑world benchmarks show competitive image quality, strong cross‑dataset generalization, and low computational cost (34 GFLOPs for the small variant).

By Ariel Lapid, Yuval Haitman, Reuven Peretz, Arnon Netzer, Idit Diamant
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 23

MirrorDistill: Illumination-Aware Latent Distillation for Efficient Low-Light Restoration

MirrorDistill introduces an illumination‑aware latent distillation framework for low‑light image enhancement. It trains a lightweight student encoder‑decoder by aligning its intermediate features with clean‑domain targets generated by a teacher decoder, using feature mirroring and illumination‑aware weighting to emphasize underexposed regions. The method achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on the LOL‑v2‑Real benchmark while maintaining the lowest computational complexity, and the code is released as open source.

By Farida Mohsen, Tala Zaim, Nurul Izni Rusli, Ali Al-Zawqari, Ali Safa, Samir Brahim Belhaouari
arXiv AI
Jun 24

From Spatial to Spectral: An Efficient, Frequency-Guided Feature Representation Learner for Small Object Detection

arXiv:2606. 23825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient small object detection is bottlenecked by the inherent feature scarcity of tiny targets, which is further aggravated by operations of spatial-domain detectors that indiscriminately discard critical high-frequency details.

By Yuhan Rui, Shihan Qiao, Yibin Lou, Mingxi Yu, Yutong Wan, Yanqiao Chen, Dongsheng Hou, Zhen Cao, Athena Zhuoming Zhong, Qi Hao