Ut-gan: a novel unpaired textual-attention generative adversarial network for low-light text image enhancement

How to balance lighting and texture details to achieve the desired visual effect remains the bottleneck of existing low-light image enhancement methods. In this paper, we propose a novel Unpaired Textual-attention Generative Adversarial N network (UT-GAN) for low-light text image enhancement task. UT-GAN first uses the Zero-DCE net for initial illumination recovery and our TAM module is proposed to translate text information into a textual attention mechanism for the overall network, emphasizing attention to the details of text regions. Moreover, the method constructs an AGM-Net module to mitigate noise effects and fine-tune the illumination. Experiments show that UT-GAN outperforms existing methods in qualitative and quantitative evaluation on the widely used the low-light datasets LOL and SID.