Flicker-free low-light video enhancement using patch-similarity and adaptive accumulation
Seungyong Ko, Soohwan Yu, Won‐Seok Kang, Donggyun Kim, Joonki Paik · 2016
Recently, the various low-light enhancement methods have been proposed for consumer electronic devices. Although the existing methods provide the better brightness enhancement results, these methods generate the flicker effects during the video enhancement process. Flicker effects are caused by ignoring the correlation information between adjacent frames (i.e. inter-frames). To minimize the flicker effects, the proposed method uses the patch-similarity and adaptive accumulation in the inter-frames domain, and it makes the mean brightness values of enhanced video frames be preserved. The experimental results show that the proposed method can better improve the video frames without flicker effects than existing enhancement methods, and it can be applied to the image signal processing (ISP) chain for consumer electronic devices.