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In the present study, an enhancement and denoising algorithm for single low-light grayscale images is proposed. The algorithm is based on the multi-exposure fusion framework. First, on the basis of the low-light tone-mapping operators, the optimal virtual exposure image is constructed according to the information entropy criterion. Then, the latent low-rank representation is applied to two images to generate low-ranking parts and saliency parts to reduce noise after fusion. Next, the initial weight map is constructed based on the information contained in the decomposed images, and an adaptive weight refined algorithm is proposed to restore as much structural information as possible and keep the details while avoiding halo artifacts. When solving the weight maps, the decomposition and optimization of the nonlinear problem is converted into a total variation model, and an iterative method is used to reduce the computational complexity. 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