Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 60, Issue 24, 2410007(2023)

A Low-Light Image Enhancement Method Combined with Generative Adversarial Networks in Nonsubsampled Shearlet Transform Domain

Wenling Shi, Yipeng Liao*, Zhimeng Xu, Xin Yan, and Kunhua Zhu
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  • College of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, Fujian, China
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    Wenling Shi, Yipeng Liao, Zhimeng Xu, Xin Yan, Kunhua Zhu. A Low-Light Image Enhancement Method Combined with Generative Adversarial Networks in Nonsubsampled Shearlet Transform Domain[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2023, 60(24): 2410007

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Apr. 7, 2023

    Accepted: Apr. 28, 2023

    Published Online: Nov. 27, 2023

    The Author Email: Liao Yipeng (fzu_lyp@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP231045

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