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Boosting Diffusion Networks with Deep External Context-Aware Encoders for Low-Light Image Enhancement.
Pengliang Tang1, Yu Wang1, Aidong Men1
1School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China.
This study introduces ECA-Diff, a novel diffusion model for low-light image enhancement (LLIE). It efficiently enhances context using an external encoder, significantly improving image quality without high computational costs.
Area of Science:
- Computer Vision
- Artificial Intelligence
- Image Processing
Background:
- Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is challenging due to complex, widespread degradations.
- Existing diffusion models struggle with global context modeling, leading to high computational costs.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop an efficient diffusion-based LLIE method that enhances long-range context modeling.
- To reduce the computational overhead associated with global module integration in diffusion backbones.
Main Methods:
- Proposed ECA-Diff, a diffusion framework with an External Context-Aware Encoder (ECAE).
- Utilized a latent-space context network with hybrid Transformer-Convolution blocks for feature extraction.
- Implemented a CIELAB-space Luminance-Adaptive Chromaticity Loss for training regularization.
Main Results:
- ECA-Diff outperformed state-of-the-art LLIE methods on paired and unpaired benchmarks.
- Achieved superior performance in both full-reference (PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS) and no-reference (NIQE, BRISQUE) metrics.
- The external context path added only modest computational overhead.
Conclusions:
- Decoupling global context estimation from iterative denoising effectively boosts diffusion-based LLIE.
- ECA-Diff offers a generalizable compute-once conditioning paradigm for low-level image restoration tasks.
