arXiv Computer Vision By Farida Mohsen, Tala Zaim, Nurul Izni Rusli, Ali Al-Zawqari, Ali Safa, Samir Brahim Belhaouari

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

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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.

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arXiv Computer Vision
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arXiv AI
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By Jian Xu, Wei Chen, Shigui Li, Delu Zeng, John Paisley, Qibin Zhao
arXiv Computer Vision
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IDM-Net: A Lightweight Illumination-Decoupled Modulation Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement

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By Cheng-Yen Hsiao, Jing-Ming Guo