Fig 1.
PSO.
Fig 2.
CS.
Fig 3.
The flow chart of the image processing method proposed in this article.
Fig 4.
Improved CS.
Fig 5.
Convergence rate analysis for platform limit parameter optimization using PSO, CS and improved CS.
Fig 6.
Histogram segmentation.
Fig 7.
Histogram clipping.
Fig 8.
Parameter selection experiment.
Table 1.
Index values of images processed with different parameters.
Fig 9.
Image texture adding effect comparison.
(a) Original image (b) Image processed by DHEDAPL (c) The image processed by DHEDAPL and adding detailed texture.
Fig 10.
Image texture adding effect comparison.
(a) Image processed by DHEDAPL (b) Image processed by DHEDAPL adding unsharp mask (c) Image processed by DHEDAPL adding texture mask.
Table 2.
Average value of four evaluation indexes of 20 random images of MIT-5K.
Fig 11.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 1.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 12.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 2.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 13.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 3.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 14.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 4.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 15.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 5.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 16.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 6.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 17.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 7.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 18.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 8.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 19.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 9.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 20.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 10.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 21.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 11.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 22.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 12.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 23.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 13.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 24.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 14.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 25.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 15.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 26.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 16.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 27.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 17.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 28.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 18.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 29.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 19.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Fig 30.
Comparisons of the ten algorithms in enhancing low-light image 20.
(a) low-light image (b) AGCWD (c) Al-Ameen (d) BHE2PL (e) BIMEF (f) BPDHE (g) LIME (h) MSRCR (i) NPEA (j) SRIE (k) OURS (l) Normal light image.
Table 3.
PSNR values of 20 random images of MIT-5K.
Table 4.
Average PSNR of two groups of images of MIT-5K.
Table 5.
SSIM values of 20 random images of MIT-5K.
Table 6.
Average SSIM of two groups of images of MIT-5K.
Table 7.
Image information entropy values of 20 random images of MIT-5K.
Table 8.
Average Entropy of three groups of images.
Table 9.
Image average gradient values of 20 random images of MIT-5K.
Table 10.
Average image average gradient values of three groups of images.
Table 11.
Image contrast ratio values of 20 random images of MIT-5K.
Table 12.
Average image contrast ratio values of three groups of images.
Table 13.
Image brightness difference values of 20 random images of MIT-5K.
Table 14.
Average image brightness difference values of three groups of images.
Fig 31.
20 random images with different method score line graphs for each index value.
Table 15.
Image standard deviation values of 20 random images of MIT-5K.
Table 16.
Average image standard deviation values of three groups of images.
Table 17.
NIQE values of 20 random images of MIT-5K.
Table 18.
Average NIQE values of three groups of images.