A Detail Enhancement Method for Weakly Illuminated Images Using Weighted Guided Filtering Technology

Abstract

In order to optimize the visual effect of weakly illuminated images, this study designed a detail enhancement method for weakly illuminated images based on weighted guided filtering technology. Low-light images undergo a series of transformations that include, among others, the grayscale transformation and the multi-scale weighted guided filtering. Filtration improves both the basic and detailed layers. The proposed method is validated through experimental results to be capable of effectively increasing the visibility and clarity of dimly lit images without losing the delicate texture and edge information. More precisely, the output images register an average gradient of 17.547, which shows that the edges are sharper; information entropy that is always above 4.0, which means that the detail content is richer; and a peak signal-to-noise ratio of 42.85 to 48.37, which asserts that the image quality is high. The whole enhancement process is very fast, and it takes only 1 min to complete, indicating that this method effectively achieves the design expectation.OPEN ACCESS Received: 08/08/2025 Accepted: 29/01/2026

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