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Nevertheless, Retinex decomposition is a highly ill-posed problem. The estimation of the decomposed components should be combined with proper constraints. Meanwhile, the noise mixed in the low-light image causes unpleasant visual effects. To address these problems, we propose a Constraint Low-Rank Approximation Retinex model (CLAR). In this model, two exponential relative total variation constraints were imposed to ensure that the illumination is piece-wise smooth and that the reflectance component is piece-wise continuous. In addition, the low-rank prior was introduced to suppress the noise in the reflectance component. With a tailored separated alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm, the illumination and reflectance components were updated accurately. 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