Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 53, Issue 11, 20240238(2024)

Low-light color image enhancement algorithm based on conditional generative adversarial network

Jue WANG1... Minxuan HONG1, Yetong XIA1, Xiuyu XU1,2,3, Xiaofang KONG4, and Minjie WAN1,23 |Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
  • 2Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Spectral Imaging & Intelligent Sense, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
  • 3Advanced Interdisciplinary Research Center for Optics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
  • 4National Key Laboratory of Transient Physics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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    Figures & Tables(15)
    Structure of CGAN
    Structure of the generator network
    Structure of the discriminator network
    Structure of the RRDB network
    Structure of the Dense Block network
    Channel attention module
    Spatial attention module
    CBAM diagram
    SK-Net module
    Comparison of different algorithms
    Outdoor scene image test results
    • Table 1. Evaluating indicator

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      Table 1. Evaluating indicator

      AlgorithmSSIMPSNRCD
      Input image0.22916.50254381.3892
      JED0.635219.59441116.9907
      KinD_New0.839921.9442665.6067
      Retinex-Net0.638618.0844850.4218
      SNR0.839327.0077487.4247
      URetinex-Net0.831222.6170745.8164
      Ours0.847828.5475438.3771
    • Table 2. Ablation experiment

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      Table 2. Ablation experiment

      Content_lossPrewitt_lossYUV_lossSSIMPSNRCD
      0.847828.5475438.3771
      -0.01876.54504998.8540
      --0.01876.54524998.8540
      --0.16467.99431989.0770
      -0.837328.0317478.8337
      -0.18598.24611621.2470
      --0.465422.3765615.3432
    • Table 3. Processing speed

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      Table 3. Processing speed

      AlgorithmFrame rate/frame·s-1
      JED0.55
      KinD_New23.86
      Retinex-Net20.33
      SNR19.53
      URetinex-Net15.58
      Ours11.13
    • Table 4. Outdoor scene evaluation index results

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      Table 4. Outdoor scene evaluation index results

      IndexSSIMPSNRCD
      Ours0.716826.0069441.7949
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    Jue WANG, Minxuan HONG, Yetong XIA, Xiuyu XU, Xiaofang KONG, Minjie WAN. Low-light color image enhancement algorithm based on conditional generative adversarial network[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2024, 53(11): 20240238

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    Paper Information

    Category: 图像处理

    Received: Jul. 19, 2024

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Dec. 13, 2024

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    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20240238

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