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An Empirical Study on Retinex Methods for Low-Light Image Enhancement

Muhammad Tahir Rasheed Orcid Logo, Guiyu Guo, Daming Shi, Hufsa Khan Orcid Logo, Cheng Cheng Orcid Logo

Remote Sensing, Volume: 14, Issue: 18, Start page: 4608

Swansea University Author: Cheng Cheng Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.3390/rs14184608

Abstract

A key part of interpreting, visualizing, and monitoring the surface conditions of remote-sensing images is enhancing the quality of low-light images. It aims to produce higher contrast, noise-suppressed, and better quality images from the low-light version. Recently, Retinex theory-based enhancement...

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Published in: Remote Sensing
ISSN: 2072-4292
Published: MDPI AG 2022
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65955
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Abstract: A key part of interpreting, visualizing, and monitoring the surface conditions of remote-sensing images is enhancing the quality of low-light images. It aims to produce higher contrast, noise-suppressed, and better quality images from the low-light version. Recently, Retinex theory-based enhancement methods have gained a lot of attention because of their robustness. In this study, Retinex-based low-light enhancement methods are compared to other state-of-the-art low-light enhancement methods to determine their generalization ability and computational costs. Different commonly used test datasets covering different content and lighting conditions are used to compare the robustness of Retinex-based methods and other low-light enhancement techniques. Different evaluation metrics are used to compare the results, and an average ranking system is suggested to rank the enhancement methods.
Keywords: low-light image enhancement; retinex theory; deep learning; remote-sensing
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Funders: This work is supported by Ministry of Science and Technology China (MOST) Major Program on New Generation of Artificial Intelligence 2030 No. 2018AAA0102200. It is also supported by Natural Science Foundation China (NSFC) Major Project No. 61827814 and Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission (SZSTI) project No. JCYJ20190808153619413.
Issue: 18
Start Page: 4608