• Laser Journal
  • Vol. 45, Issue 8, 131 (2024)
ZHANG Xiangyin and HU Likun*
Author Affiliations
  • School of Electrical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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    DOI: 10.14016/j.cnki.jgzz.2024.08.131 Cite this Article
    ZHANG Xiangyin, HU Likun. Low-light image enhancement based on iterative attention normalized flow[J]. Laser Journal, 2024, 45(8): 131 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    An Iterative attention normalization flow (IANFlow) network is proposed to address the problem of insufficient feature fusion between network layers and lack of accurate localization and acquisition of high-frequency features, as well as the problem of uncertain mapping between low-light images and multiple normal-exposure images. The iterative attention module uses spatial and channel attention to localize the high-frequency feature regions of the input feature maps and then performs feature acquisition, which prompts the deeper feature maps to contain more high -frequency features through incremental hierarchical localization and fusion; the reversible normalization flow module learns the complex conditional distributions between low-light images and normal-exposure images as well as minimizes the negative log-likelihood (NLL) to establish the uncertainty in mappings between a low-light image and a reference image. one-to-many mapping. The peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of the IANFlow network is improved by 1.1 dB, 1.27 dB, and 2.14 dB when comparing the LLFlow network on each of the three datasets.