Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 6, 362(2025)

Low-light image enhancement based on multi-illumination estimation and multi-scale fusion

Xin’ai ZHANG, Jing GAO, Kaiming NIE, and Tao LUO
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Received: Apr. 11, 2024

Accepted: Jun. 27, 2025

Published Online: Jun. 27, 2025

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DOI:10.1007/s11801-025-4090-0

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