HiLoF-GAN: high and low frequency information separation GAN for underwater image enhancement
摘要
Underwater images often suffer from degradation such as color distortion, low contrast, and blurred details due to light absorption and scattering. Most existing underwater image enhancement (UIE) algorithms rely on a single network structure, limiting their ability to handle diverse degradation features effectively. To address this, we propose HiLoF-GAN, a novel Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) with high- and low-frequency feature separation. Our key innovation lies in the High and Low-Frequency Separation (HLFS) module within the generator, which explicitly extracts and processes high- and low-frequency features for finer detail enhancement. Additionally, we introduce a multi-color space loss function that integrates information from multiple color spaces to improve contrast and saturation more effectively. Extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets demonstrate that HiLoF-GAN outperforms state-of-the-art UIE methods in both qualitative and quantitative metrics, including PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS, and UCIQE, achieving significant improvements in detail preservation, color restoration, and overall visual quality.