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arxiv: 2605.28605 · v1 · pith:MFFYFWRVnew · submitted 2026-05-27 · 💻 cs.CV

Internally Referenced Low-Light Enhancement

Peiyuan He , Hainuo Wang , Hengxing Liu , Mingjia Li , Xiaojie Guo This is my paper

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keywords low-light image enhancementself-supervised learninginternal referencesnoise suppressionillumination estimationimage restorationcomputer vision
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The pith

A single low-light image can supply its own physical and structural references to guide self-supervised enhancement.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops a self-supervised approach to low-light image enhancement that avoids any need for paired normal-light training data. It extracts a low-frequency pseudo ground-truth by simulating local exposure changes inside the input, then uses this as an internal physical reference to estimate and correct global illumination and color. Dual-domain constraints, one perceptual and one spectral, build structural references that keep fine details while limiting noise amplification. A modulation block converts the estimated illumination into a spatial gain map that directs a blind-spot denoiser to handle varying noise levels. Experiments show the resulting outputs reduce noise more cleanly and retain textures better than prior self-supervised and even some supervised methods.

Core claim

The Internally Referenced LLIE framework derives a low-frequency pseudo ground-truth via local exposure simulation to serve as an internal physical reference for illumination correction, constructs dual-domain structural references through an Illumination-Aligned Perceptual loss and a Shift-Invariant Spectral Correlation loss, and applies Gain-Adaptive Feature Modulation that turns the self-estimated illumination map into a spatial gain prior for blind-spot denoising, all without external paired supervision.

What carries the argument

Internal physical reference (low-frequency pseudo ground-truth) and dual-domain structural references extracted from the single input, together with the Gain-Adaptive Feature Modulation mechanism that converts the illumination map into a spatial gain prior.

If this is right

  • Training and inference become possible using only single degraded images, removing the cost of collecting paired low-light and normal-light datasets.
  • Global illumination and color cast correction can be driven directly by the low-frequency components of the input itself.
  • Fine local structures are protected by combining spatial perceptual alignment with shift-invariant spectral correlation.
  • Spatially varying residual noise is addressed by turning the illumination estimate into an adaptive gain prior for blind-spot denoising.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same internal-reference pattern could be tested on related tasks such as single-image dehazing or underwater restoration where paired data is also scarce.
  • If the pseudo ground-truth extraction proves stable across camera models, it may reduce dependence on large annotated corpora for low-light pipelines.
  • Real-world deployment would benefit from checking whether the extracted references remain consistent when input noise statistics deviate sharply from the training distribution.

Load-bearing premise

The low-frequency pseudo ground-truth and dual-domain structural references extracted from one degraded image are reliable enough to guide illumination correction, structure preservation, and spatially variant denoising without any paired external data.

What would settle it

Run the method on a collection of real low-light images that also have corresponding well-lit ground-truth captures; if the outputs show visibly worse noise or texture loss than a paired-data baseline on those same images, the internal-reference premise fails.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.28605 by Hainuo Wang, Hengxing Liu, Mingjia Li, Peiyuan He, Xiaojie Guo.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Top: Internal Physical Reference. A local exposure-simulated pseudo-GT provides an internal physical reference for global color and brightness restoration. Bottom: Internal Structural References. Our spectral-domain design provides internal structural references that preserve structures and suppress noise without the blur artifacts caused by spatial misalignment. Abstract Self-supervised low-light image en… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: (a) Global luminance distribution comparison. Our [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 1. Figure 1: In contrast, by operating in the spectral domain, we exploit [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of our IRLE. (a) Stage 1: Illumination estimation and structure extraction via a Dual-Domain Collaborative Retinex network, guided by a local exposure-simulated pseudo-GT. (b) Stage 2: Gain-guided blind-spot denoising, which handles spatially-variant noise. (c) The detailed architecture of the Gain-Aware Block. (d) The Gain-Adaptive Feature Modulation (GAFM) module, which translates the inverse il… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Cross-Frequency Correlation (CFC) analysis. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Visual comparison on LOLv1 [42]. Existing methods often exhibit color casts or lose delicate details due to over￾smoothing. But our method maintains natural colors and effectively removes spatially-variant noise while preserving structures [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Visual ablation study. We compare IRLE (e) against 4 variants (a-d) lacking specific components. Our full model [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Self-supervised low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is highly appealing as it eliminates the reliance on external paired data. However, the lack of external references causes networks to struggle with decoupling entangled illumination, delicate textures, and amplified noise. To resolve this challenge, we propose an Internally Referenced LLIE framework that extracts reliable physical and structural references from the degraded input image itself. First, we introduce a local exposure-simulated scheme to extract a low-frequency pseudo ground-truth. This serves as an internal physical reference to guide global illumination estimation and correct color casts. Second, we propose a dual-domain preservation strategy with spatial and spectral constraints to construct internal structural references. Specifically, an Illumination-Aligned Perceptual loss preserves global structures under illumination shifts, while a Shift-Invariant Spectral Correlation loss captures fine-grained local structures and suppresses high-frequency noise. Finally, we propose a Gain-Adaptive Feature Modulation (GAFM) mechanism to address highly spatially-variant residual noise. By transforming the self-estimated illumination map into an internal spatial gain prior, GAFM dynamically guides a blind-spot network for spatially-aware denoising. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance, delivering superior noise suppression and textural fidelity. Code will be publicly released at https://visonj.github.io/IRLE/.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a self-supervised low-light image enhancement (LLIE) method called Internally Referenced LLIE. It extracts a low-frequency pseudo ground-truth from the input via local exposure simulation to guide illumination correction and color cast removal, constructs dual-domain structural references using an Illumination-Aligned Perceptual loss and a Shift-Invariant Spectral Correlation loss, and introduces Gain-Adaptive Feature Modulation (GAFM) that converts the self-estimated illumination map into a spatial gain prior for blind-spot denoising. The central claim is that this internal-reference approach achieves state-of-the-art noise suppression and textural fidelity without paired external data.

Significance. If the internal references are shown to be reliable and the SOTA claim holds under rigorous evaluation, the work would be significant for self-supervised LLIE by demonstrating a practical way to derive supervision signals directly from single degraded inputs, potentially improving generalization and reducing dataset collection costs. The planned code release supports reproducibility.

major comments (3)
  1. Abstract: the claim that 'extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance' is unsupported because the manuscript provides no quantitative tables, ablation studies, or error analysis, rendering the central performance claim unverifiable from the text.
  2. Method description (low-frequency pseudo ground-truth extraction): the assumption that the local exposure-simulated low-frequency component extracted from a single noisy input is sufficiently free of residual illumination, color casts, and spatially varying noise to serve as a reliable physical reference is load-bearing for the self-supervised claim, yet no validation or sensitivity analysis against artifact retention is described.
  3. GAFM mechanism: the transformation of the self-estimated illumination map into an internal spatial gain prior for guiding the blind-spot network is presented procedurally without equations or ablation showing that this prior avoids propagating errors from imperfect illumination estimates in severely degraded inputs.
minor comments (1)
  1. The abstract introduces several new terms (GAFM, Illumination-Aligned Perceptual loss, Shift-Invariant Spectral Correlation loss) without immediate cross-references to their defining equations or algorithmic steps, which reduces readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment below, indicating where revisions will be made to improve clarity and support for the claims.

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  1. Referee: Abstract: the claim that 'extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance' is unsupported because the manuscript provides no quantitative tables, ablation studies, or error analysis, rendering the central performance claim unverifiable from the text.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract claim requires visible substantiation in the manuscript. The experimental section of the full paper contains quantitative comparisons (PSNR/SSIM on LOL and other benchmarks) against recent self-supervised LLIE methods, plus component ablations and error analysis. We will revise the manuscript to prominently include and reference these tables and studies so the performance claim is directly verifiable from the text. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Method description (low-frequency pseudo ground-truth extraction): the assumption that the local exposure-simulated low-frequency component extracted from a single noisy input is sufficiently free of residual illumination, color casts, and spatially varying noise to serve as a reliable physical reference is load-bearing for the self-supervised claim, yet no validation or sensitivity analysis against artifact retention is described.

    Authors: The local exposure simulation isolates the low-frequency component through patch-wise averaging under simulated exposures, which is intended to suppress high-frequency noise while retaining structural illumination information. We acknowledge that the current manuscript lacks explicit validation of this assumption. In revision we will add a dedicated sensitivity analysis subsection with quantitative metrics and visual examples showing artifact retention rates across noise levels and illumination variations. revision: yes

  3. Referee: GAFM mechanism: the transformation of the self-estimated illumination map into an internal spatial gain prior for guiding the blind-spot network is presented procedurally without equations or ablation showing that this prior avoids propagating errors from imperfect illumination estimates in severely degraded inputs.

    Authors: GAFM converts the illumination map into a normalized spatial gain prior that modulates blind-spot features to achieve spatially adaptive denoising. We agree the description is procedural and lacks formal equations plus targeted ablations. We will insert the exact mathematical definition of the gain modulation and add an ablation study that measures performance degradation when the illumination estimate contains controlled errors, demonstrating that the prior does not propagate those errors under severe degradation. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; internal references extracted procedurally from input without reduction to fitted parameters or self-citations.

full rationale

The paper defines its self-supervised framework by procedurally extracting a low-frequency pseudo ground-truth via local exposure simulation and dual-domain structural references via spatial/spectral constraints from the single input image. These guide the Illumination-Aligned Perceptual loss, Shift-Invariant Spectral Correlation loss, and GAFM mechanism. No equations, derivations, or self-citations are present that reduce the SOTA performance claim or the reliability assumption to the inputs by construction. The central premise is a methodological choice of internal supervision signals, not a self-definitional loop or fitted-input prediction. This matches the expectation of a self-contained derivation with no load-bearing circular steps.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The framework rests on domain assumptions about the reliability of internally derived references and introduces one new mechanism; no explicit free parameters are named in the abstract.

free parameters (1)
  • loss weighting coefficients
    Training of the perceptual and spectral losses requires balancing coefficients that are not specified in the abstract.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption A low-frequency version of the input can serve as a reliable internal physical reference for illumination estimation.
    Invoked by the local exposure-simulated scheme described in the abstract.
invented entities (1)
  • Gain-Adaptive Feature Modulation (GAFM) no independent evidence
    purpose: Dynamically guide blind-spot denoising using self-estimated illumination as spatial gain prior.
    New component introduced to handle spatially-variant noise.

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