In night-vision environments, image quality was significantly degraded by glare from intense light sources, impairing the performance of night-vision assisted driving systems. Existing flare-removal algorithms suffer from limited robustness, high computational complexity, and loss of light-source information. To address these challenges, a lightweight image flare-removal method, Night Flare Removal Network+ (NFR-Net+), was proposed to enhance image clarity while meeting the real-time computational demands of mobile devices. The approach first incorporated a feature-filtering mechanism combined with residual connection strategies to strengthen feature extraction capabilities, effectively mitigating overfitting and ensuring robust flare removal across diverse lighting conditions and flare types. Additionally, a nonlinear, activation-free feature attention module was introduced. Via a lightweight design, an efficient attention mechanism was constructed that significantly improved image-detail reconstruction while reducing model parameters by approximately 8.28% and runtime memory by about 11.1%, thereby optimizing computational efficiency. To tackle the issue of diminished image naturalness due to excessive light-source removal in traditional methods, an enhanced light-source extraction module was developed within the segmentation network. This module employed an improved light-source separation strategy to accurately preserve brightness and texture details in light-source regions, ensuring the authenticity and naturalness of output images. Experimental results demonstrated that NFR-Net+ surpassed state-of-the-art methods on image quality metrics such as Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM), Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), and Learned Perceptual Image Patch Similarity (LPIPS), exhibiting superior flare-removal performance and detail preservation. The method also demonstrated strong adaptability across various night-vision scenarios and hardware devices, fulfilling the efficiency requirements for real-time processing. Ablation studies further validated the effectiveness of individual components, highlighting the critical role of feature filtering and attention mechanisms in balancing performance and resource consumption. This approach provided an efficient, lightweight solution for applications such as nighttime autonomous driving and intelligent surveillance.
| 科 Family | 属数 Number of genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) | 属 Genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 鹅膏菌科Amanitaceae | 2 | 11 | 5.26 | 鹅膏菌属 Amanita | 10 | 4.78 |
| 小菇科 Mycenaceae | 2 | 12 | 5.74 | 丝盖伞属 Inocybe | 5 | 2.39 |
| 多孔菌科 Polyporaceae | 8 | 14 | 6.70 | 蜡蘑属 Laccaria | 5 | 2.39 |
| 红菇科 Russulaceae | 3 | 23 | 11.00 | 小皮伞属 Marasmius | 6 | 2.87 |
| 小菇属 Mycena | 11 | 5.26 | ||||
| 光柄菇属 Pluteus | 5 | 2.39 | ||||
| 红菇属 Russula | 17 | 8.13 | ||||
| 栓菌属 Trametes | 5 | 2.39 |