The application discloses a low-illumination
image enhancement method based on an improved
Retinex algorithm, and applies to the technical field of
image enhancement, and comprises the following steps: performing discrete
wavelet decomposition on a low-illumination image to obtain low-frequency and high-frequency components of the image; converting the low-frequency component into HSV, separately performing brightness correction on a V channel, then converting back to RGB, performing bilateral filtering, and then converting to HSV to extract the V channel; performing
image enhancement on the low-frequency component by using an improved
Retinex algorithm based on a joint weighting of a
bilateral filter and a
Gaussian filter as a new center-surround function, and performing median filtering
processing, then converting to HSV to extract the V channel; weighting and fusing the two V channels, retaining the H and S channels after
algorithm enhancement, then converting back to RGB, performing discrete
wavelet fusion with the high-frequency component after denoising, and stretching and outputting the enhanced low-illumination image. The application can effectively guarantee the color, edge details and avoid local
distortion of the image.