Light-Aware Contrastive Learning for Low-Light Image Enhancement
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) presents challenges due to texture information loss and uneven illumination, which can distort feature distribution and reduce the quality of the enhanced images. However, current deep learning methods for LLIE only use supervised information from clear images to extract low-light image features, while disregarding the negative information in low-light images (i.e., low illumination and noise). To address these challenges, we propose a novel LLIE method, LACR-VAE, by leveraging the negative information and considering the uneven illumination. In particular, a Light-Aware Contrastive Regularization (LACR) based on contrastive learning is designed to exploit information from both clear and low-light images. The LACR aims to align latent variables of enhanced images with clear images, away from those of low-light images. This allows the method to prioritize essential elements for LLIE and minimize noise and lighting variations. Furthermore, considering the uneven illumination with diverse region sizes and shapes, a Region-CAlibrated Module (RCAM) is present to learn local and global illumination relations among image regions, and an Attention-guided Multi-Scale Module (AMSM) is designed to extract multi-scale features that improve the model’s representation capability. Extensive experiments show that our method achieves superior performance than previous works. Specifically, our method yields a significant enhancement in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) testset, achieving an improvement of at least 0.99 in PSNR and 0.0409 in SSIM. Codes and datasets are available at https://github.com/csxuwu/LACR-VAE .
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it