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MCLL-Diff: Multiconditional Low-Light Image Enhancement Based on Diffusion Probabilistic Models

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Fengxin Chen
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Ye Yu *
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Jun Yi
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张挺 (Ting Zhang)
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Zhao Ji
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Wei Jia
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Jun Yu
DOI:10.1109/JSEN.2025.3534566delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Due to the inherent limitations of camera sensors in capturing adequate light under low-light conditions, images often suffer from various degradation issues, such as illumination imbalances, artifacts, and noise. While generative model-based methods have made remarkable progress in low-light image enhancement (LLIE), they still face challenges such as unstable training and inconsistent generation quality. To address these challenges, we introduce MCLL-Diff, a novel multiconditional LLIE method based on diffusion probabilistic model (DPM). MCLL-Diff retains the forward process of DPM but introduces a unique multiconditional noise predictor (MCNP) in the reverse process. We first propose a learnable operator module (LOM) to enrich the prior knowledge incorporated in the reverse process. Then, we use MCNP to effectively integrate prior knowledge, low-light images, intermediate variables, and time steps to accurately predict noise. To validate the effectiveness of MCLL-Diff in high-level computer vision tasks, we construct a large-scale nighttime vehicle model (NVM) dataset from real-world nighttime street scenarios. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate MCLL-Diff's superiority in both generalization performance and visual quality. Specifically, we achieved a significant improvement of 0.1 dB in peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) metric on the VE-LOL dataset, and a notable increase of 0.76% in Top-1 accuracy when applied to object recognition on the NVM dataset.
Keywords:
Noise
Lighting
Training
Learning systems
Visualization
Image enhancement
Gray-scale
Electronic mail
Diffusion models
Predictive models
Diffusion probabilistic model (DPM)
generative model
low-light image enhancement (LLIE)
nighttime vehicle recognition

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IEEE Sensors Journal cover
IEEE Sensors Journal
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hefei university of technology
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university of science & technology of china, cas
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huanggang normal university
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chinese academy of sciences
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