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A mature low-light enhancement technology will not only be conductive to human visual perception but also lay a solid foundation for the subsequent high-level tasks, such as target detection and image classification. In order to balance the visual effect of the image and the contribution of the subsequent task, this paper proposes utilizing shallow Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) as the priori image processing to restore the necessary image feature information, which is followed by super-pixel image segmentation to obtain image regions with similar colors and brightness and, finally, the Attentive Neural Processes (ANPs) network to find its local enhancement function on each super-pixel to further restore features and details. Through extensive experiments on the synthesized low-light image and the real low-light image, the experimental results of our algorithm reach 23.402, 0.920, and 2.2490 for Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Structural Similarity (SSIM), and Natural Image Quality Evaluator (NIQE), respectively. As demonstrated by the experiments on image Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) feature detection and subsequent target detection, the results of our approach achieve excellent results in visual effect and image features.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22103667","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,12]],"date-time":"2022-05-12T23:08:36Z","timestamp":1652396916000},"page":"3667","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Super-Pixel Guided Low-Light Images Enhancement with Features Restoration"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Xiaoming","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Microelectronics and Communications Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yan","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Microelectronics and Communications Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5689-1146","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuanhong","family":"Zhong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Microelectronics and Communications Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dong","family":"Xiong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Microelectronics and Communications Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6368-1008","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhiyong","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Microelectronics and Communications Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"426","DOI":"10.1016\/j.istruc.2021.12.055","article-title":"Seismic Performance Evaluation of Recycled aggregate Concrete-filled Steel tubular Columns with field strain detected via a novel mark-free vision method","volume":"37","author":"Tang","year":"2022","journal-title":"Structures"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"87884","DOI":"10.1109\/ACCESS.2020.2992749","article-title":"An Experiment-Based Review of Low-Light Image Enhancement Methods","volume":"8","author":"Wang","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Access"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Li, X., Jin, X., and Lin, J. 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