ControlLight: Towards Controllable, Consistent, and Generalizable Low-Light Enhancement

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ControlLight is a controllable low-light enhancement framework that uses a large-scale real-world dataset and a weighted flow matching loss to achieve consistent image quality across varying enhancement strengths, achieving state-of-the-art performance.

Existing deep learning-based low-light enhancement methods are typically trained on limited datasets with single enhancement targets, which restricts their generalization ability and controllability in real-world applications. To overcome these limitations, we propose ControlLight, a controllable, consistent, and generalizable framework for low-light enhancement. We first construct a large-scale dataset of real-world degraded images with continuous illumination-strength supervision. To further ensure consistent outputs under different control strengths, we introduce a misalignment-aware weighted flow matching loss that preserves image structure across continuous enhancement strengths. ControlLight allows users to edit real-world degraded low-light images toward satisfactory enhancement results by flexibly controlling the strength while preserving visual consistency and realism. Extensive experiments show that ControlLight achieves state-of-the-art performance against existing low-light enhancement approaches while demonstrating strong continuous controllability and generalization to real-world scenarios.
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ControlLight is a controllable low-light enhancement framework that uses a large-scale real-world dataset and weighted flow matching loss to ensure consistent image quality across varying enhancement strengths.

Existing deep learning-basedlow-light enhancementmethods are typically trained on limited datasets with single enhancement targets, which restricts theirgeneralizationability andcontrollabilityin real-world applications. To overcome these limitations, we propose ControlLight, a controllable, consistent, and generalizable framework forlow-light enhancement. We first construct a large-scale dataset ofreal-world degraded imageswithcontinuous illumination-strength supervision. To further ensure consistent outputs under different control strengths, we introduce a misalignment-awareweighted flow matching lossthat preserves image structure across continuous enhancement strengths. ControlLight allows users to edit real-world degraded low-light images toward satisfactory enhancement results by flexibly controlling the strength while preserving visual consistency and realism. Extensive experiments show that ControlLight achieves state-of-the-art performance against existinglow-light enhancementapproaches while demonstrating strong continuouscontrollabilityandgeneralizationto real-world scenarios.

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