DLIENet: A lightweight low-light image enhancement network via knowledge distillation

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Ling Zhang, Zhenyu Li, Liang Cheng, Qing Zhang, Zheng Liu, Xiaolong Zhang, Chunxia Xiao

Published: 01 Jan 2026, Last Modified: 15 Sept 2025Pattern Recognit. 2026EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•A novel distillation-based lightweight network to enhance low-light image.•ARB and CAM in the teacher network to improve feature representation capability.•FFB in the task network to balance the illumination features globally.•Outstanding performance to demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.