A low-light image enhancement method for both denoising and contrast enlarging | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

A low-light image enhancement method for both denoising and contrast enlarging


Abstract:

In this paper, a novel united low-light image enhancement framework for both contrast enhancement and denoising is proposed. First, the low-light image is segmented into ...Show More

Abstract:

In this paper, a novel united low-light image enhancement framework for both contrast enhancement and denoising is proposed. First, the low-light image is segmented into superpixels, and the ratio between the local standard deviation and the local gradients is utilized to estimate the noise-texture level of each superpixel. Then the image is inverted to be processed in the following steps. Based on the noise-texture level, a smooth base layer is adaptively extracted by the BM3D filter, and another detail layer is extracted by the first order differential of the inverted image and smoothed with the structural filter. These two layers are adaptively combined to get a noise-free and detail-preserved image. At last, an adaptive enhancement parameter is adopt into the dark channel prior dehazing process to enlarge contrast and prevent over/under enhancement. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms traditional methods in both subjective and objective assessments.
Date of Conference: 27-30 September 2015
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 10 December 2015
ISBN Information:
Conference Location: Quebec City, QC, Canada

Contact IEEE to Subscribe

References

References is not available for this document.