Low-Light Image Enhancement Web App

The Low-Light Image Enhancement web app, inspired by the research paper "A Light Weight Transformer for Image Enhancement and Exposure Correction" by Cui et al. (2022), leverages a compact Transformer model. This app, which incorporates the insights from the mentioned research, allows for efficient low-light image enhancement. The deployment of the app includes creating and containerizing the Flask app, Node website, and Nginx server using Docker Compose, ensuring seamless integration and scalability.

Getting Started

To run these containers,

• Docker Engine and Docker Compose

  You need to instal the Docker Engine and Docker Compose. You can reach the official documentation to install Docker Engine here and Docker Compose here

• OpenSSL for Localhost

  You should create an OpenSSL certificate for localhost to run this project as https://localhost. To create the certificates;

  git clone https://github.com/FurkanAtass/LightEnhance-WebApp.git
  cd LightEnhance-WebApp
  cd nginx
  

  and follow the How to Get SSL HTTPS for Localhost tutorial's; - Step 1: Generate a CA certificate - Step 2: Generating a certificate - Step 5: Importing CA Certificate to the browser

• Download the Model

  The model that is used for Low-Light Image Enhancement is best_Epoch_lol.pth. You can download it from here by clicking the Download raw file on the right of the screen.

  Put this model file in ./pythonEnhance/best_Epoch_lol.pth.

Usage

With the help of Docker Compose, the usage is "A piece of cake." Go to LightEnhance-WebApp folder and use the command;

docker compose up -d

where the -d flag stands for detached mode. It instructs Docker to start the containers defined in the Docker Compose file in the background and detach the terminal from the container's output.

After containers turn into running stage, you can use the web-app from https://localhost

* Here is an example usage:

Low-Light-Enhance.webm

Stop and Delete

• To stop containers;

  docker compose stop

• To delete the containers;

  docker compose down

• To delete the images that is created by the docker-compose.yml file;

  docker rmi $(docker compose images -q)

Issues

• If you cannot delete images as in the Stop and Delete section (docker images command still shows images that should be deleted), you can use $ docker rmi $(docker images | grep lightenhanceapp- | awk '{print $1}')