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Low-light enhancement is a crucial task in computer vision because of the limited dynamic range of digital imaging devices in poor lighting conditions. Images taken under low-light conditions often suffer from insufficient brightness and severe noise. At present, many models based on convolutional neural networks have been proposed to enhance low-light images. However, most models treat the features on different channels equally, which is not conducive to models learning hierarchical features. Consequently, the method proposed a channel splitting attention network (CSAN) that divides the shallow features into two branches, the residual and dense branches, transmitting different information. Residual branching facilitates feature reuse, while dense branching promotes the exploration of new features. In addition, CSAN uses merge-and-run mappings to assist information integration between different branches and distinguishes the information contained in different branch features through an attention module designed in this paper. Multiple experiment results show that the method proposed is superior to state-of-the-art methods in qualitative and quantitative evaluation. Furthermore, CSAN can better suppress chromaticity aberration while enhancing low-light images.

Although deep neural networks have achieved amazing results on instance segmentation, they are still ill-equipped when they are required to learn new tasks incrementally. Concretely, they suffer from “catastrophic forgetting”, an abrupt degradation of performance on old classes with the initial training data missing. Moreover, they are subjected to a negative transfer problem on new classes, which renders the model unable to update its knowledge while preserving the previous knowledge. To address these problems, we propose an incremental instance segmentation method that consists of three networks: Former Teacher Network (FTN), Current Student Network (CSN) and Current Teacher Network (CTN). Specifically, FTN supervises CSN to preserve the previous knowledge, and CTN supervises CSN to adapt to new classes. The supervision of two teacher networks is achieved by a distillation loss function for instances, bounding boxes, and classes. In addition, we adjust the supervision weights of different teacher networks to balance between the knowledge preservation for former classes and the adaption to new classes. Extensive experimental results on PASCAL 2012 SBD and COCO datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed method.