Revisiting Lightweight Low-Light Image Enhancement: From a YUV Color Space Perspective
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| author | Yan, Hailong Liu, Shice Zhang, Xiangtao Yao, Lujian Yang, Fengxiang Chen, Jinwei Li, Bo |
| author_facet | Yan, Hailong Liu, Shice Zhang, Xiangtao Yao, Lujian Yang, Fengxiang Chen, Jinwei Li, Bo |
| contents | In the current era of mobile internet, Lightweight Low-Light Image Enhancement (L3IE) is critical for mobile devices, which faces a persistent trade-off between visual quality and model compactness. While recent methods employ disentangling strategies to simplify lightweight architectural design, such as Retinex theory and YUV color space transformations, their performance is fundamentally limited by overlooking channel-specific degradation patterns and cross-channel interactions. To address this gap, we perform a frequency-domain analysis that confirms the superiority of the YUV color space for L3IE. We identify a key insight: the Y channel primarily loses low-frequency content, while the UV channels are corrupted by high-frequency noise. Leveraging this finding, we propose a novel YUV-based paradigm that strategically restores channels using a Dual-Stream Global-Local Attention module for the Y channel, a Y-guided Local-Aware Frequency Attention module for the UV channels, and a Guided Interaction module for final feature fusion. Extensive experiments validate that our model establishes a new state-of-the-art on multiple benchmarks, delivering superior visual quality with a significantly lower parameter count. |
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| spellingShingle | Revisiting Lightweight Low-Light Image Enhancement: From a YUV Color Space Perspective Yan, Hailong Liu, Shice Zhang, Xiangtao Yao, Lujian Yang, Fengxiang Chen, Jinwei Li, Bo Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition In the current era of mobile internet, Lightweight Low-Light Image Enhancement (L3IE) is critical for mobile devices, which faces a persistent trade-off between visual quality and model compactness. While recent methods employ disentangling strategies to simplify lightweight architectural design, such as Retinex theory and YUV color space transformations, their performance is fundamentally limited by overlooking channel-specific degradation patterns and cross-channel interactions. To address this gap, we perform a frequency-domain analysis that confirms the superiority of the YUV color space for L3IE. We identify a key insight: the Y channel primarily loses low-frequency content, while the UV channels are corrupted by high-frequency noise. Leveraging this finding, we propose a novel YUV-based paradigm that strategically restores channels using a Dual-Stream Global-Local Attention module for the Y channel, a Y-guided Local-Aware Frequency Attention module for the UV channels, and a Guided Interaction module for final feature fusion. Extensive experiments validate that our model establishes a new state-of-the-art on multiple benchmarks, delivering superior visual quality with a significantly lower parameter count. |
| title | Revisiting Lightweight Low-Light Image Enhancement: From a YUV Color Space Perspective |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17349 |