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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Enhancing Low-Light Images with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks in Transformer Attention.

Alexandru Brateanu, Raul Balmez, Ciprian Orhei, Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta Ancuti

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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5 authors.

Alexandru BrateanuDepartment of Computer Science, University of Machester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.ORCID 0009-0001-2752-2357
Raul BalmezDepartment of Computer Science, University of Machester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.ORCID 0009-0003-6446-2669
Ciprian OrheiFaculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies, Polytechnic University Timisoara, 300223 Timisoara, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-0071-958X
Cosmin AncutiFaculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies, Polytechnic University Timisoara, 300223 Timisoara, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-2151-804X
Codruta AncutiFaculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies, Polytechnic University Timisoara, 300223 Timisoara, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-8782-4341

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) techniques improve the performance of image sensors by enhancing visibility and details in poorly lit environments and have significantly benefited from recent research into Transformer models. This work presents a novel Transformer attention mechanism inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, incorporating learnable non-linearity and multivariate function decomposition. This innovative mechanism is the foundation of KAN-T, our proposed Transformer network. By enhancing feature flexibility and enabling the model to capture broader contextual information, KAN-T achieves superior performance. Our comprehensive experiments, both quantitative and qualitative, demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance in low-light image enhancement, highlighting its effectiveness and wide-ranging applicability. The code will be released upon publication.

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image sensor restorationlow-light enhancementVision Transformer

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PMID39860697
PMCPMC11768327

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