The invention relates to the field of
image enhancement, in particular to a low-light
image enhancement method, which comprises the following steps of: constructing a training
data set by using an underexposure low-light image and an aligned low-light image in a plurality of scenes; constructing and training a low-light
image denoising network in combination with a preset low-light
loss function; the low-illumination
loss function comprises loss for measuring the difference between two pairs of transformed low-light images, loss for measuring the difference between the denoised and down-sampled image and the target image, and
structural similarity loss; constructing and training a
decomposition network based on the de-noised image output by the LD-Net; the
loss function of the
decomposition network comprises reconstruction loss,
reflectivity consistency loss, illumination smoothness loss and
decomposition loss; and a de-noising Retinex decomposition model is generated according to the LD-Net and the decomposition network, and is used for carrying out
image enhancement operation on the to-be-processed
image based on the illumination correction factor, so that the model has less parameter quantity through a simple network design, and meanwhile, the model has better detail
recovery effect and enhancement effect.