Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 57, Issue 14, 141024(2020)

Low-Light Image Enhancement Based on Cascaded Residual Generative Adversarial Network

Qingjiang Chen and Mei Qu*
Author Affiliations
  • School of Science, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710055, China
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    Network structure of proposed generator
    Residual block in the generator network
    Discriminator network structure
    Different images. (a) River and car of normal-light images; (b) images with illuminance of 0.2; (c) images with illuminance of 0.35; (d) images with illuminance of 0.5; (e) HSV color space images with illuminance of 0.2; (f) H component; (g) S component; (h) V component
    Flow chart of proposed algorithm
    Enhanced results of low-light image Starfish by different algorithms. (a) Low-light image; (b) normal-light image; (c) Ref. [6] algorithm; (d) Ref. [7] algorithm; (e) Ref. [8] algorithm; (f) Ref. [9] algorithm; (g) Ref. [10] algorithm; (h) Ref. [11] algorithm; (i) Ref. [12] algorithm; (j) proposed algorithm
    Enhanced results of low-light image Man by different algorithms. (a) Low-light image; (b) normal-light image; (c) Ref. [6] algorithm; (d) Ref. [7] algorithm; (e) Ref. [8] algorithm; (f) Ref. [9] algorithm; (g) Ref. [10] algorithm; (h) Ref. [11] algorithm; (i) Ref. [12] algorithm; (j) proposed algorithm
    Enhanced results of low-light image Street by different algorithms. (a) Low-light image; (b) normal-light image; (c) Ref. [6] algorithm; (d) Ref. [7] algorithm; (e) Ref. [8] algorithm; (f) Ref. [9] algorithm; (g) Ref. [10] algorithm; (h) Ref. [11] algorithm; (i) Ref. [12] algorithm; (j) proposed algorithm
    Enhancement results of real low-light image Pocky by different algorithms. (a) Real low-light image; (b) Ref. [6] algorithm; (c) Ref. [7] algorithm; (d) Ref. [8] algorithm; (e) Ref. [9] algorithm; (f) Ref. [10] algorithm; (g) Ref. [11] algorithm; (h) Ref. [12] algorithm; (i) proposed algorithm
    Enhancement results of real low-light image Palace by different algorithms. (a) Real low-light image; (b) Ref. [6] algorithm; (c) Ref. [7] algorithm; (d) Ref. [8] algorithm; (e) Ref. [9] algorithm; (f) Ref. [10] algorithm; (g) Ref. [11] algorithm; (h) Ref. [12] algorithm; (i) proposed algorithm
    Comparison results of different algorithms. (a) Average; (b) average gradient
    Subjective comparison of low-light image enhancement results by generator network and generative adversarial network. (a) Low-light image; (b) normal-light image; (c) results of generator network; (d) results of generative adversarial network
    Comparison results of generator network and generative adversarial network of different images. (a) PSNR; (b) SSIM
    • Table 1. PSNR and SSIM of different algorithms

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      Table 1. PSNR and SSIM of different algorithms

      ImageEvaluationindexMethod
      Ref. [6]Ref. [7]Ref. [8]Ref. [9]Ref. [10]Ref. [11]Ref. [12]Proposed
      StarfishPSNR /dB17.529921.579918.559614.813915.161914.916123.733124.6770
      SSIM0.88440.90870.79740.79630.73540.77670.92330.9301
      BridgePSNR /dB18.769819.694119.438715.112216.049817.379622.727724.1884
      SSIM0.78040.80040.71340.63700.66630.75110.78640.8156
      ManPSNR /dB20.177316.866217.365018.248118.826119.505116.981123.0426
      SSIM0.86550.80690.79020.83390.81390.86890.82600.9097
      BoatPSNR /dB16.696020.189718.117713.380713.968016.687622.343422.6587
      SSIM0.80790.82720.75640.66260.69140.82600.84980.8643
      StreetPSNR /dB17.510819.350218.189215.751015.956420.441718.652525.6980
      SSIM0.86820.87550.78870.80370.75860.89520.88160.9387
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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Nov. 22, 2019

    Accepted: Dec. 24, 2019

    Published Online: Jul. 28, 2020

    The Author Email: Qu Mei (862907196@qq.com)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP57.141024

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