The invention belongs to the technical field of
digital image processing, and relates to an unpaired low-illumination
image enhancement method based on
Fourier transform. The invention provides an innovative scheme, an unpaired training strategy is adopted, and dependence on
paired data is avoided. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, acquiring a low-illumination image and an unpaired high-illumination image, then extracting illumination and
reflectivity components from the low-illumination or high-illumination image by using a pre-training separation network based on a
Retinex algorithm, and training an enhanced
reflectivity component; then, the illumination components are sent to a cyclic consistency
generative adversarial network (CycleGAN) for non-
pairing training; and finally, multiplying the enhanced
reflectivity by the illumination component to obtain a final enhanced image. Through combination of the pre-trained reflectivity graph and the non-
pairing training, the illumination and detail
recovery capability of the image is effectively improved, the adaptability and generalization capability of the model are high, a remarkable
image enhancement effect can be realized without data
pairing, and the method has wide practical application potential.