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Image decomposition based nighttime image enhancement

  • Xuesong Jiang*
  • , Hongxun Yao
  • , Dilin Liu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Nighttime image captured at low or non-uniform illumination scene always suffers from the loss of visibility, and contains various noise and objectionable artifact. When we enlarge the amplitude of the lightness, the noise and artifact in nighttime images will be amplified. Hence, we propose a nighttime image enhancement method based on image decomposition. We decompose the input image into two components: Structure Layer contains main information of the image, and Texture Layer contains details, noise and artifact. For the Structure Layer, we apply an improved-Retinex image enhancement algorithm. To remain details and suppress noise and artifact in the Texture Layer, we use Mask Weighted Least Squares method. In the final, we fuse these two components to get the result. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can improve the perceptual quality of nighttime image while suppressing noise and artifact, and avoiding excessive reinforcement.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Multimedia Information Processing – PCM 2017 - 18th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsBing Zeng, Hongliang Li, Qingming Huang, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Shuqiang Jiang, Xiaopeng Fan
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages683-692
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319773827
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event18th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2017 - Harbin, China
Duration: 28 Sep 201729 Sep 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10736 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period28/09/1729/09/17

Keywords

  • Image decomposition
  • Improved-retinex algorithm
  • Nighttime image enhancement
  • Noise and artifact suppression

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