The invention provides a low-illumination
image processing method and device. A
noise suppression filter is additionally arranged before operation of
contrast enhancement by aiming at a problem of
noise amplification existing in an original low-illumination
image contrast enhancement technology, and
smoothing is performed on the inverse
color image of a low-illumination image by adopting a first filtering coefficient and a second filtering coefficient so that
image contrast is enhanced and
random noise is suppressed simultaneously. Texture and
noise level parameters of the image are calculated according to the local block interior characteristics of the image. Weighted averaging is performed on a first smooth image and a second smooth image after
smoothing according to the texture and the
noise level parameters. A texture image is obtained by performing texture
structure extraction on the gradient image of the inverse
color image, and the texture image is combined with the weighted image and the weighted image is sharpened so that the effect of enhancing image details can be realized. Therefore, contrast of the low-illumination image can be effectively enhanced, various types of noise can be filtered, the image color and details can be retained and thus a clear and lifelike restored image can be obtained.