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Record W4413267779 · doi:10.1109/jiot.2025.3590733

CLIP-Optimized Multimodal Image Enhancement via ISP-CNN Fusion for Coal Mine IoVT Under Uneven Illumination

2025· article· en· W4413267779 on OpenAlex
Shuai Wang, Shihao Zhang, Jiaqi Wu, Zijian Tian, Wei Chen, Miaomiao Xue, Zehua Wang, F. Richard Yu, Victor C. M. Leung

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Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Internet of Things Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicAdvanced Image Fusion Techniques
Canadian institutionsCarleton UniversityUniversity of British Columbia
FundersFundamental Research Funds for the Central UniversitiesNational Natural Science Foundation of China-Shandong Joint FundNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsComputer scienceFusionImage fusionArtificial intelligenceComputer visionCoal miningImage (mathematics)CoalImage enhancementPattern recognition (psychology)Engineering

Abstract

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Clear monitoring images are crucial for the safe operation of coal mine Internet of Video Things (IoVT) systems. However, low illumination and uneven brightness in underground environments significantly degrade image quality, posing challenges for enhancement methods that often rely on difficult-to-obtain paired reference images. Additionally, there is a tradeoff between enhancement performance and computational efficiency on edge devices within IoVT systems.To address these issues, we propose a multimodal image enhancement method tailored for coal mine IoVT, utilizing an ISP operations within a differentiable CNN framework fusion architecture optimized for uneven illumination. This two-stage strategy combines global enhancement with detail optimization, effectively improving image quality, especially in poorly lit areas. A contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP)-based multimodal iterative optimization allows for unsupervised training of the enhancement algorithm. By integrating traditional image signal processing (ISP) with convolutional neural networks (CNN), our approach reduces computational complexity while maintaining high performance, making it suitable for real-time deployment on edge devices. Experimental results demonstrate that our method effectively mitigates uneven brightness and enhances key image quality metrics, with preservation of original visual information (PSNR) improvements of 2.9%–4.9%, structural similarity (SSIM) by 4.3%–11.4%, and visual information fidelity (VIF) by 4.9%–17.8% compared to seven state-of-the-art algorithms. Simulated coal mine monitoring scenarios validate our method’s ability to balance performance and computational demands, facilitating real-time enhancement and supporting safer mining operations.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.580
Threshold uncertainty score0.936

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.272
Teacher spread0.265 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it