  In this paper, we present a novel low-light image enhancement method called
dark region-aware low-light image enhancement (DALE), where dark regions are
accurately recognized by the proposed visual attention module and their
brightness are intensively enhanced. Our method can estimate the visual
attention in an efficient manner using super-pixels without any complicated
process. Thus, the method can preserve the color, tone, and brightness of
original images and prevents normally illuminated areas of the images from
being saturated and distorted. Experimental results show that our method
accurately identifies dark regions via the proposed visual attention, and
qualitatively and quantitatively outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
