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UPT-Flow: Multi-scale transformer-guided normalizing flow for low-light image enhancement
Low-light images often suffer from information loss and RGB value degradation due to extremely low or nonuniform lighting conditions. Many existing methods primarily focus on optimizing the appearance distance between the enhanced image and the normal-light image, while neglecting the explicit modeling of information loss regions or incorrect information points in low-light images. To address this, this paper proposes an Unbalanced Points-guided multi-scale Transformer-based conditional normalizing Flow (UPT-Flow) for low-light image enhancement. We design an unbalanced point map prior based on the differences in the proportion of RGB values for each pixel in the image, which is used to modify traditional self-attention and mitigate the negative effects of areas with information distortion in the attention calculation. The Multi-Scale Transformer (MSFormer) is composed of several global-local transformer blocks, which encode rich global contextual information and local fine-grained details for conditional normalizing flow. In the invertible network of flow, we design cross-coupling conditional affine layers based on channel and spatial attention, enhancing the expressive power of a single flow step. Without bells and whistles, extensive experiments on low-light image enhancement, night traffic monitoring enhancement, low-light object detection, and nighttime image segmentation have demonstrated that our proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance across a variety of real-world scenes. The code and pre-trained models will be available at https://github.com/NJUPT-IPR-XuLintao/UPT-Flow.
期刊介绍:
The field of Pattern Recognition is both mature and rapidly evolving, playing a crucial role in various related fields such as computer vision, image processing, text analysis, and neural networks. It closely intersects with machine learning and is being applied in emerging areas like biometrics, bioinformatics, multimedia data analysis, and data science. The journal Pattern Recognition, established half a century ago during the early days of computer science, has since grown significantly in scope and influence.