CLIP-AE: A Multi-Modal Unsupervised Images Enhancement Method Based on High-Order Adaptive Curve for Visual Disbalance Defects
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Abstract
For visual disbalance defects (VDDs) in low-light images, such as brightness unevenness and color imbalance, existing enhancement methods struggle to extract defect features from local regions and apply adaptive enhancement based on varying degrees of these defects. To address these challenges, we propose an unsupervised multi-modal enhancement method based on a high-order adaptive curve, named CLIP-AE. Specifically, we introduce a multi-modal recurrent optimization approach utilizing contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP). This method iteratively optimizes variable embedded prompts and an Adaptive Enhancement Module (AEM) to establish dependencies between the prompts and detailed style features in the images, guiding the AEM to perform adaptive image enhancement. Additionally, we implement a progressive feature alignment strategy to enhance the model's ability to perceive style features and improve optimization efficiency by using multiple enhanced images with identical content features and incremental style features. In the AEM, the optimized Hyperparameters Generative Network (HGN) generates the optimal hyperparameters, which drive a High-Dimensional Nested Gamma correction (HDN-Gamma) to perform pixel-wise adaptive enhancement for VDDs. HDN-Gamma further maps pixel values using specific enhancement curves to avoid artifacts. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method effectively improves visual disbalance defects and reduces artifacts. Compared to seven state-of-the-art algorithms, our method shows significant improvements (PSNR: 16.46%, 16.89%, and 15.14%; SSIM: 9.26%, 8.02%, and 9.85%; MUSIQ: 6.37%, 6.54%, and 7.45%) on the LOL, SICE, and MIT-Adobe FiveK datasets. Our approach offers a novel solution for applying multimedia technology in low-light image enhancement tasks.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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