README.md

Diffusion in the Dark

Official repository for Diffusion in the Dark: A Diffuion Model for Low-Light Text Recognition
Cindy M. Nguyen, Eric R. Chan, Alexander W. Bergman, Gordon Wetzstein
WACV 2024

Project Page | Paper

Updates

• 11/06/23: 📣 Training code, inference code, and pretrained models are released.
• 10/23/23: ✨ Diffusion in the Dark was accepted into WACV!

Setup

You can use the following to set up a Conda environment.
Environment and code was tested on Linux, NVIDIA Driver Version 545.23.06, CUDA Version 12.3. Code was run on a single NVIDIA RTX 3090.

conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate did
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .

Download our pretrained model HERE. Put the pretrained model in a runs folder.

We put the datasets into a folder outside of the repo to create the following file structure

data
    LOL
    lowLightDataset
diffusion-in-the-dark

LOL (LOw-Light) dataset from here

File structure should be as follows:

LOL
    our485
        high
        low
    eval15
        high
        low

Low Light Dataset (based off of Seeing in the Dark)

From Xu, Ke, et al. "Learning to restore low-light images via decomposition-and-enhancement." This can be downloaded from here.
File structure should be as follows:

lowLightDataset
    gt
        test
        train
    input
        test
        train

Usage

To train on LowLightDataset or LOL dataset:

python train.py --outdir=runs --data=../data/lowLightDataset --batch 1 --curve linear --dataset lowlight --add_noise True --scale_norm True --use_lpips True

python train.py --outdir=runs --data=../data/LOL --batch 1 --curve linear --dataset lol --add_noise True --scale_norm True --use_lpips True

If you want to train on a custom dataset use data/raw_img_lol.ipynb as a base to sample 30 random images to find the mean and std of your data to perform data normalization with. Add the mean and std to training/constants.py

To test:

python inference.py --dataset lol

Reference

If you find this work useful, please consider citing us!

@inproceedings{nguyen2024diffusion,
  author    = {Nguyen, Cindy M and Chan, Eric R and Bergman, Alexander W and Wetzstein, Gordon},
  title     = {Diffusion in the Dark: A Diffusion Model for Low-Light Text Recognition},
  journal   = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision},
  year      = {2024},
}

Acknowledgements

We thank the authors of EDM from which our repo is based off of.