Journal of Applied Optics, Volume. 44, Issue 5, 1037(2023)

Nighttime low-light image enhancement and object detection based on knowledge distillation

Delin MIAO... Lei LIU*, Yongchao MO, Chaolong HU, Yijun ZHANG and Yunsheng QIAN |Show fewer author(s)
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  • School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210018, China
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    Structure diagram of dual task model of image enhancement and object detection and schematic of knowledge distillation
    Structure of low-light image enhancement block
    Visual comparison on low-light image enhancement effect of different methods
    Test results of mAP indicators on real low-light images dataset
    Test results of low-light image enhancement and object detection
    • Table 1. Parameters of image quality assessment of different methods

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      Table 1. Parameters of image quality assessment of different methods

      Method/IndexNIQEPSNRSSIM
      EnlightenGAN[18]18.8228.230.73
      Zero-DCE[21]23.3328.540.73
      CycleGAN[41]27.5828.610.71
      Algorithm proposed19.8628.570.74
    • Table 2. mAP of different methods

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      Table 2. mAP of different methods

      MethodmAP50mAP50@ExDark
      YOLOXtiny(Normal illumination)80.47%None
      YOLOXtiny(LLL+Knowledge distillation)54.40%41.28%
      YOLOXtiny(LLL)37.82%23.13%
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    Delin MIAO, Lei LIU, Yongchao MO, Chaolong HU, Yijun ZHANG, Yunsheng QIAN. Nighttime low-light image enhancement and object detection based on knowledge distillation[J]. Journal of Applied Optics, 2023, 44(5): 1037

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Nov. 24, 2022

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 12, 2024

    The Author Email: LIU Lei (刘磊)

    DOI:10.5768/JAO202344.0502004

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