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arxiv: 2605.19982 · v1 · pith:3QVUILVRnew · submitted 2026-05-19 · 💻 cs.CV

InterLight: Leveraging Intrinsic Illumination Priors for Low-Light Image Enhancement

Ziqi Wang , Xu Zhang , Laibin Chang , Shi Chen , Jiaqi Ma , Huan Zhang This is my paper

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keywords low-light image enhancementillumination priorsRetinex theoryphysics-guided augmentationadaptive promptsluminance-gated memoryself-supervised consistencyimage restoration
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InterLight enhances low-light images by building an illumination-aware pipeline that injects sensor-level priors and uses gated memory to recover details selectively.

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

The paper argues that low-light image enhancement improves when methods move beyond simple illumination estimation to actively operationalize intrinsic illumination priors. It starts by using physics-guided augmentation to embed sensor-level response information, then generates adaptive prompts that capture the scene's latent lighting state. These prompts direct a luminance-gated memory system that restores lost information mainly in dark areas while protecting bright regions from distortion. A self-supervised consistency loss further enforces illumination-invariant features across the process. The result is claimed to be sharper textures and more natural color balance on standard benchmarks.

Core claim

Robust low-light enhancement requires constructing an illumination-aware pipeline rather than merely estimating illumination; this pipeline operationalizes intrinsic illumination priors first through physics-guided augmentation to inject sensor-level response characteristics, then through adaptive prompts conditioned on latent illumination, which in turn steer a luminance-gated intrinsic memory mechanism that selectively compensates for information loss while a self-supervised consistency objective distills invariant features, ultimately yielding clearer textures and visually coherent outputs.

What carries the argument

Luminance-gated intrinsic memory guided by adaptive prompts that represent the scene's latent illumination state, selectively restoring dark regions without altering bright areas.

If this is right

  • Clearer textures appear in restored dark regions across multiple benchmarks.
  • Color and brightness remain coherent rather than showing over-enhancement artifacts.
  • The pipeline handles non-uniform noise and non-ideal lighting conditions better than prior Retinex-based networks.
  • Self-supervised consistency reduces dependence on perfectly paired training data.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same prior-injection pattern could be tested on related tasks such as low-light video stabilization or underwater image correction.
  • If the memory mechanism proves robust, it might allow lighter models that run directly on smartphone cameras without scene-specific retraining.

Load-bearing premise

Sensor-level illumination-response priors can be injected effectively through physics-guided augmentation and that the resulting adaptive prompts will guide the memory mechanism reliably without creating new artifacts.

What would settle it

Run the method on images captured with a sensor whose response curve differs markedly from those used in training and check whether over-enhancement or color shifts appear in the output.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.19982 by Huan Zhang, Jiaqi Ma, Laibin Chang, Shi Chen, Xu Zhang, Ziqi Wang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison of InterLight with traditional and deep learn [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: The overview of the proposed InterLight. The input is first augmented via PGA and then encoded by the LDE to produce an [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Visual comparison of enhanced results from SOTA methods on LOL-v1 (top) and LOL-v2-Real (bottom). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Visual comparison on LSRW-Huawei dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) has long been a challenging problem in low-level vision, as insufficient illumination often leads to low contrast, detail loss, and noise. Recent studies show that deep learning-based Retinex theory can effectively decouple illumination and reflectance. However, existing methods frequently suffer from over-enhancement or color distortion, and often assume uniform noise or ideal lighting. To address these limitations, we propose InterLight, a novel framework that systematically excavates and operationalizes intrinsic illumination priors for LLIE.Our core insight is that robust enhancement requires not just estimating illumination, but constructing an illumination-aware pipeline. We first inject sensor-level illumination-response priors via physics-guided augmentation, then represent the degradation through adaptive prompts conditioned on the scene's latent illumination state. This explicit representation directly guides a luminance-gated intrinsic memory mechanism to selectively compensate for information loss, prioritizing reconstruction in dark regions while preserving fidelity in bright ones. Finally, the entire process is regularized by a self-supervised consistency objective that distills illumination-invariant features. By deeply exploiting intrinsic illumination priors, our method achieves clearer textures and more visually coherent enhancement results. Extensive experiments across multiple benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. Code is available at: https://github.com/House-yuyu/InterLight.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes InterLight, a framework for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) that injects sensor-level illumination-response priors via physics-guided augmentation, represents degradation through adaptive prompts conditioned on the scene's latent illumination state, guides a luminance-gated intrinsic memory mechanism to compensate for information loss, and regularizes the process with a self-supervised consistency objective that distills illumination-invariant features. It claims this yields clearer textures and more visually coherent results than prior Retinex-based methods, supported by experiments across multiple benchmarks.

Significance. If the central claims hold after addressing the validation gaps, the work could contribute to LLIE by moving beyond uniform noise assumptions and explicit illumination estimation toward an illumination-aware pipeline that prioritizes dark-region reconstruction while preserving bright-region fidelity. The code release supports reproducibility, which strengthens the potential impact in the low-level vision community.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The claim that physics-guided augmentation faithfully injects sensor-level illumination-response priors to produce reliable adaptive prompts is load-bearing for the central claim, yet the description provides no derivation, explicit response curve formulation, or cross-dataset validation showing robustness beyond the training distribution; this directly risks the luminance-gated memory under-compensating or introducing color shifts as outlined in the skeptic note.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: The self-supervised consistency objective is presented as distilling illumination-invariant features, but without the loss formulation or equations it is unclear whether the objective is independent of the training distribution or reduces to a fitted quantity, undermining the assertion of robustness over existing methods that assume ideal lighting.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The statement 'extensive experiments across multiple benchmarks' should specify the datasets, metrics (e.g., PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS), and comparison baselines to allow immediate assessment of the claimed superiority.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: The phrase 'luminance-gated intrinsic memory mechanism' introduces new terminology without a brief parenthetical definition or reference to its operational role in the pipeline.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive feedback on our paper. We have addressed each of the major comments point by point below. We believe these revisions strengthen the clarity of our contributions regarding the illumination priors in low-light image enhancement.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The claim that physics-guided augmentation faithfully injects sensor-level illumination-response priors to produce reliable adaptive prompts is load-bearing for the central claim, yet the description provides no derivation, explicit response curve formulation, or cross-dataset validation showing robustness beyond the training distribution; this directly risks the luminance-gated memory under-compensating or introducing color shifts as outlined in the skeptic note.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee pointing out the need for more explicit details in the abstract. While the full derivation and response curve formulation are provided in Section 3.2 of the manuscript, based on standard camera sensor response models, we agree that the abstract should better highlight this. In the revised version, we have added a sentence to the abstract summarizing the physics-guided augmentation approach and its role in generating adaptive prompts. For cross-dataset validation, the experiments section already includes results on multiple datasets (LOL, DarkFace, etc.) demonstrating robustness, and we have emphasized this in the abstract revision to address concerns about potential color shifts or under-compensation in the luminance-gated memory. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The self-supervised consistency objective is presented as distilling illumination-invariant features, but without the loss formulation or equations it is unclear whether the objective is independent of the training distribution or reduces to a fitted quantity, undermining the assertion of robustness over existing methods that assume ideal lighting.

    Authors: Thank you for this observation. The abstract is limited in length, but the loss formulation for the self-supervised consistency objective is detailed in Section 4.3, where it is defined as a combination of consistency losses across different illumination augmentations to distill invariant features. This objective is designed to be distribution-independent by not relying on paired data or explicit illumination labels. We have updated the abstract to include a brief description of this objective and its self-supervised nature to clarify its robustness compared to methods assuming ideal lighting. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper presents an engineering framework for low-light enhancement consisting of physics-guided augmentation to inject sensor priors, adaptive prompts conditioned on latent illumination, a luminance-gated memory module, and a self-supervised consistency regularizer. None of these components is shown to reduce to its own inputs by definition or by fitting a parameter then relabeling the fit as a prediction. The self-supervised objective is described as distilling illumination-invariant features via consistency regularization, which is a standard independent design choice rather than a tautological re-expression of the training distribution. Claims of improved textures and coherence are positioned as outcomes of experiments on external benchmarks, not as quantities forced by the method's own definitions. No load-bearing self-citation chain or uniqueness theorem is invoked in the provided description to close the argument.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 2 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on the Retinex decomposition being a useful starting point, the existence of transferable sensor-level illumination-response priors that can be simulated via augmentation, and the premise that a self-supervised consistency loss can enforce illumination invariance without external labels.

free parameters (1)
  • network weights and prompt parameters
    Learned during training on low-light datasets; central to the enhancement performance.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Retinex theory provides a valid decoupling of illumination and reflectance for low-light images
    Invoked in the abstract as the foundation for recent deep learning methods that the new framework builds upon.
  • ad hoc to paper Physics-guided augmentation can faithfully represent real sensor illumination responses
    Stated as the first step of the proposed pipeline.
invented entities (1)
  • luminance-gated intrinsic memory mechanism no independent evidence
    purpose: Selectively compensates for information loss in dark regions while preserving bright areas
    New component introduced to operationalize the illumination priors.

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