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Autori principali: Kong, Derong, Yang, Zhixiong, Li, Shengxi, Zhi, Shuaifeng, Liu, Li, Liu, Zhen, Xia, Jingyuan
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01510
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author Kong, Derong
Yang, Zhixiong
Li, Shengxi
Zhi, Shuaifeng
Liu, Li
Liu, Zhen
Xia, Jingyuan
author_facet Kong, Derong
Yang, Zhixiong
Li, Shengxi
Zhi, Shuaifeng
Liu, Li
Liu, Zhen
Xia, Jingyuan
contents Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) faces persistent challenges in balancing reconstruction fidelity with cross-scenario generalization. While existing methods predominantly focus on deterministic pixel-level mappings between paired low/normal-light images, they often neglect the continuous physical process of luminance transitions in real-world environments, leading to performance drop when normal-light references are unavailable. Inspired by empirical analysis of natural luminance dynamics revealing power-law distributed intensity transitions, this paper introduces Luminance-Aware Statistical Quantification (LASQ), a novel framework that reformulates LLIE as a statistical sampling process over hierarchical luminance distributions. Our LASQ re-conceptualizes luminance transition as a power-law distribution in intensity coordinate space that can be approximated by stratified power functions, therefore, replacing deterministic mappings with probabilistic sampling over continuous luminance layers. A diffusion forward process is designed to autonomously discover optimal transition paths between luminance layers, achieving unsupervised distribution emulation without normal-light references. In this way, it considerably improves the performance in practical situations, enabling more adaptable and versatile light restoration. This framework is also readily applicable to cases with normal-light references, where it achieves superior performance on domain-specific datasets alongside better generalization-ability across non-reference datasets.
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spellingShingle Luminance-Aware Statistical Quantization: Unsupervised Hierarchical Learning for Illumination Enhancement
Kong, Derong
Yang, Zhixiong
Li, Shengxi
Zhi, Shuaifeng
Liu, Li
Liu, Zhen
Xia, Jingyuan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) faces persistent challenges in balancing reconstruction fidelity with cross-scenario generalization. While existing methods predominantly focus on deterministic pixel-level mappings between paired low/normal-light images, they often neglect the continuous physical process of luminance transitions in real-world environments, leading to performance drop when normal-light references are unavailable. Inspired by empirical analysis of natural luminance dynamics revealing power-law distributed intensity transitions, this paper introduces Luminance-Aware Statistical Quantification (LASQ), a novel framework that reformulates LLIE as a statistical sampling process over hierarchical luminance distributions. Our LASQ re-conceptualizes luminance transition as a power-law distribution in intensity coordinate space that can be approximated by stratified power functions, therefore, replacing deterministic mappings with probabilistic sampling over continuous luminance layers. A diffusion forward process is designed to autonomously discover optimal transition paths between luminance layers, achieving unsupervised distribution emulation without normal-light references. In this way, it considerably improves the performance in practical situations, enabling more adaptable and versatile light restoration. This framework is also readily applicable to cases with normal-light references, where it achieves superior performance on domain-specific datasets alongside better generalization-ability across non-reference datasets.
title Luminance-Aware Statistical Quantization: Unsupervised Hierarchical Learning for Illumination Enhancement
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01510