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Such problems will have an adverse impact on the following high-level image understanding tasks. To overcome this, a two-stage network is proposed in this paper for better restoring low-illumination images. Specifically, instead of manipulating the raw input directly, our network first decomposes the low-illumination image into three different maps (i.e., reflectance, illumination, and feature) via a Decom-Net. During the decomposition process, only reflectance and illumination are further denoised to suppress the effect of noise, while the feature is preserved to reduce the loss of image details. Subsequently, the illumination is deeply adjusted via another well-designed subnetwork called Enhance-Net. Finally, the three restored maps are fused together to generate the final enhanced output. The entire proposed network is optimized in a zero-shot fashion using a newly introduced loss function. 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