LDM-ISP: Enhancing Neural ISP for Low Light with Latent Diffusion Models

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Hauptverfasser: Wen, Qiang, Rao, Zhefan, Xing, Yazhou, Chen, Qifeng
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author Wen, Qiang
Rao, Zhefan
Xing, Yazhou
Chen, Qifeng
author_facet Wen, Qiang
Rao, Zhefan
Xing, Yazhou
Chen, Qifeng
contents Enhancing a low-light noisy RAW image into a well-exposed and clean sRGB image is a significant challenge for modern digital cameras. Prior approaches have difficulties in recovering fine-grained details and true colors of the scene under extremely low-light environments due to near-to-zero SNR. Meanwhile, diffusion models have shown significant progress towards general domain image generation. In this paper, we propose to leverage the pre-trained latent diffusion model to perform the neural ISP for enhancing extremely low-light images. Specifically, to tailor the pre-trained latent diffusion model to operate on the RAW domain, we train a set of lightweight taming modules to inject the RAW information into the diffusion denoising process via modulating the intermediate features of UNet. We further observe different roles of UNet denoising and decoder reconstruction in the latent diffusion model, which inspires us to decompose the low-light image enhancement task into latent-space low-frequency content generation and decoding-phase high-frequency detail maintenance. Through extensive experiments on representative datasets, we demonstrate our simple design not only achieves state-of-the-art performance in quantitative evaluations but also shows significant superiority in visual comparisons over strong baselines, which highlight the effectiveness of powerful generative priors for neural ISP under extremely low-light environments. The project page is available at https://csqiangwen.github.io/projects/ldm-isp/
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spellingShingle LDM-ISP: Enhancing Neural ISP for Low Light with Latent Diffusion Models
Wen, Qiang
Rao, Zhefan
Xing, Yazhou
Chen, Qifeng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Enhancing a low-light noisy RAW image into a well-exposed and clean sRGB image is a significant challenge for modern digital cameras. Prior approaches have difficulties in recovering fine-grained details and true colors of the scene under extremely low-light environments due to near-to-zero SNR. Meanwhile, diffusion models have shown significant progress towards general domain image generation. In this paper, we propose to leverage the pre-trained latent diffusion model to perform the neural ISP for enhancing extremely low-light images. Specifically, to tailor the pre-trained latent diffusion model to operate on the RAW domain, we train a set of lightweight taming modules to inject the RAW information into the diffusion denoising process via modulating the intermediate features of UNet. We further observe different roles of UNet denoising and decoder reconstruction in the latent diffusion model, which inspires us to decompose the low-light image enhancement task into latent-space low-frequency content generation and decoding-phase high-frequency detail maintenance. Through extensive experiments on representative datasets, we demonstrate our simple design not only achieves state-of-the-art performance in quantitative evaluations but also shows significant superiority in visual comparisons over strong baselines, which highlight the effectiveness of powerful generative priors for neural ISP under extremely low-light environments. The project page is available at https://csqiangwen.github.io/projects/ldm-isp/
title LDM-ISP: Enhancing Neural ISP for Low Light with Latent Diffusion Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01027