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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2023
Korea University Research and Business Foundation, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed are a low-light image improvement apparatus and method. The low-light image improvement apparatus includes: an image component decomposition network module that analyzes a light image, a low-light image, and a mid-light image to decompose reflectance and illumination, respectively, wherein the mid-light image is generated using the light image and the low-light image; and a component improvement network module configured to include a mid-teacher network model that extracts a first feature map with improved reflectance and illumination of the mid-light image using the reflectance and illumination of the light image and a student network module that distills the extracted first feature map and then extracts a second feature map for the reflectance and illumination of the low-light image based on the distilled first feature map and acquires an image with improved light by reflecting a structural component of a multi-band near-infrared image in the second feature map.