In this paper, a novel and effective algorithm is proposed for noise reduction and contrast enhancement in low light images based on luminance map and haze removal model. The proposed method is divided into two steps: i) A combined denoising method using the improved guided filtering based on gradient information and median filtering is proposed to obtain the initial denoised image. ii)Considering that an inverted low light image presents quite similar to a haze image, the haze removal model is used to enhance the denoised low light image. The luminance component L is extracted to obtain the t...
