arXiv:2608.01886cs.CV2026-08

通过条件互信息建模光照与色彩的互动,提升暗光图像增强效果。

Beyond Illumination: A Conditional Mutual Information-Guided Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement

论文配图:Beyond Illumination: A Conditional Mutual Information-Guided Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement
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  • 用条件互信息量化亮度与色彩的依赖关系,动态校准色彩特征。
  • 在索尼全暗数据集上提升0.382 dB PSNR,最高达0.619 dB增益。
  • 适合需要高保真色彩与细节恢复的低光照图像处理场景。

低光照图像增强(LLIE)旨在从光照不足条件下拍摄的图像中恢复结构保真度、自然色彩和正确曝光。现有先进方法如CIDNet采用双分支架构,分别在HVI色彩空间中建模色度(HV)与亮度(I)信息。然而,这些方法忽视了亮度与色度之间的相互作用,限制了其表征能力并导致性能不佳。为此,本文提出条件互信息引导网络(CMIG-Net),利用条件互信息作为度量,定量评估在给定亮度信息下色度特征的贡献。设计了条件互信息校准(CMIC)模块,生成条件信息图,根据局部光照统计自适应重校准色度表示。同时引入动态双分支信息恢复(D2IR)模块,基于条件先验与实时修复状态,自适应调控亮度与色度分支间的双向信息流。在配对的LLIE基准测试上,实验表明CMIG-Net持续优于CIDNet,PSNR最高提升0.619 dB,尤其在挑战性索尼全暗数据集上提升0.382 dB。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) seeks to restore structural fidelity, natural color rendition, and proper exposure from images captured under inadequate lighting conditions. Recent state-of-the-art approaches, such as CIDNet, adopt a dual-branch architecture comprising a chrominance (HV) branch and an intensity (I) branch to separately model decoupled chromatic and luminance information within the HVI color space. However, these methods overlook the mutual interaction between intensity and chrominance components, which inherently limits their representational capacity and leads to suboptimal enhancement performance. To address this limitation, we propose the Conditional Mutual Information-Guided Network (CMIG-Net), which leverages conditional mutual information as a principled metric to quantitatively assess the contribution of chrominance features conditioned on the available intensity information. In particular, we design a Conditional Mutual Information Calibration (CMIC) module that generates a conditional information map, enabling region-adaptive recalibration of chrominance representations according to local illumination statistics. Furthermore, we introduce a Dynamic Dual-branch Information Restoration (D2IR) module, which adaptively governs bidirectional information flow between the intensity and chrominance branches, guided by both the conditional prior and the instantaneous restoration state. Extensive experiments on paired LLIE benchmarks demonstrate that CMIG-Net consistently outperforms CIDNet, achieving up to a 0.619 dB gain in PSNR, with a 0.382 dB improvement specifically on the challenging Sony-Total-Dark dataset.

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