Shadow Hunter: Low-Illumination Object-Detection Algorithm
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Abstract
Recently, object detection, which is focused on images with normal illumination levels, has achieved great success. However, the accuracy of object detection is reduced in suboptimal environments due to the images plagued by noise and low contrast. For boosting the performance of object-detection tasks under low-illumination conditions, we propose three modules for improvement: (1) the low-level feature attention (LFA) module learns to focus on the regional feature information of the object in the low-illumination environment, highlighting important features and filtering noisy information; (2) the feature fusion neck (FFN) obtains enriched feature information by fusing the feature information of the feature map after backbone; (3) the context-spatial decoupling head (CSDH) enables the classification head to focus on contextual semantic information so that the localization head obtains richer spatial details. Extensive experiments show that our algorithm realizing end-to-end detection shows good performance in low-illumination images.
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Research context
OpenAlex topics: Advanced Neural Network Applications · Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques · Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
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Affiliations
School of Computer Science and Information Security, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China
School of Artificial Intelligence, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China
Funding
National Natural Science Foundation of China · Guangxi Science and Technology Project · Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate Education
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