Recently, image enhancement technology based on deep learning has made great progress. However, existing supervised enhancement methods are not universally applicable due to the limitation of paired training sets. The enhanced images have flaws including overexposure, color distortion, and noise amplification. Through mathematical reasoning on the relationship between the Retinex model and two color spaces, this paper proposes a new unsupervised low-light enhancement method, namely a dual enhancement method based on single-channel curve estimation. We define the first-stage enhancing objective as a light curve estimation problem and design an illumination estimation module. New cubic curves and new exposure control losses are designed to avoid overexposed images. In the second-stage enhancement, we reconstruct the enhancement process by designing gradient-guided unsupervised losses to constrain the local perception restoration module, which can jointly solve image degradation problems such as noise and artifacts. Compared with other methods based on the Retinex model, our method does not require complex decomposition and reconstruction, and only requires fewer zero-reference low-light images to complete training. Lastly, we conduct comprehensive experiments to evaluate the results through subjective visual analysis and objective metric evaluation, demonstrating the superior performance of the proposed algorithm.
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