Nighttime low illumination image enhancement with single image using bright/dark channel prior

Zhenghao Shi, Meimei Zhu, Bin Guo, Minghua Zhao, Changqing Zhang

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Abstract

Nighttime low illumination image enhancement is highly desired for outdoor computer vision applications. However, few works have been studied towards this goal. In addition, the low illumination enhancement problem becomes very challenging when the depth information of a low illumination image is unknown. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a dual channel prior-based method for nighttime low illumination image enhancement with a single image, which builds upon two existing image priors: dark channel prior and bright channel prior. We utilize the bright channel prior to get an initial transmission estimate and then use the dark channel as a complementary channel to correct potentially erroneous transmission estimates attained from the bright channel prior. Experimental results show significant credibility of the approach both visually and by quantitative comparison with existing methods.

Original languageEnglish
Article number13
JournalEurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing
Volume2018
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2018

Keywords

  • Bright channel prior
  • Dark channel prior
  • Image enhancement
  • Nighttime illumination

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