M2Retinexformer: Multi-Modal Retinexformer for Low-Light Image Enhancement
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| author | Aboelwafa, Youssef Elmongui, Hicham G. Torki, Marwan |
| author_facet | Aboelwafa, Youssef Elmongui, Hicham G. Torki, Marwan |
| contents | Low-light image enhancement is challenging due to complex degradations, including amplified noise, artifacts, and color distortion. While Retinex-based deep learning methods have achieved promising results, they primarily rely on single-modality RGB information. We propose M2Retinexformer (Multi-Modal Retinexformer), a novel framework that extends Retinexformer by incorporating depth cues, luminance priors, and semantic features within a progressive refinement pipeline. Depth provides geometric context that is invariant to lighting variations, while luminance and semantic features offer explicit guidance on brightness distribution and scene understanding. Modalities are extracted at multiple scales and fused through cross-attention, with adaptive gating dynamically balancing illumination-guided self-attention and cross-attention based on the reliability of auxiliary cues. Evaluations on the LOL, SID, SMID, and SDSD benchmarks demonstrate overall improvements over Retinexformer and recent state-of-the-art methods. Code and pretrained weights are available at https://github.com/YoussefAboelwafa/M2Retinexformer |
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| spellingShingle | M2Retinexformer: Multi-Modal Retinexformer for Low-Light Image Enhancement Aboelwafa, Youssef Elmongui, Hicham G. Torki, Marwan Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Low-light image enhancement is challenging due to complex degradations, including amplified noise, artifacts, and color distortion. While Retinex-based deep learning methods have achieved promising results, they primarily rely on single-modality RGB information. We propose M2Retinexformer (Multi-Modal Retinexformer), a novel framework that extends Retinexformer by incorporating depth cues, luminance priors, and semantic features within a progressive refinement pipeline. Depth provides geometric context that is invariant to lighting variations, while luminance and semantic features offer explicit guidance on brightness distribution and scene understanding. Modalities are extracted at multiple scales and fused through cross-attention, with adaptive gating dynamically balancing illumination-guided self-attention and cross-attention based on the reliability of auxiliary cues. Evaluations on the LOL, SID, SMID, and SDSD benchmarks demonstrate overall improvements over Retinexformer and recent state-of-the-art methods. Code and pretrained weights are available at https://github.com/YoussefAboelwafa/M2Retinexformer |
| title | M2Retinexformer: Multi-Modal Retinexformer for Low-Light Image Enhancement |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12556 |