Abstract: An image processing method including acquiring a first image whose spatial resolution and lightness are to be enhanced; generating a residual image from the first image using a multi-scale hierarchical neural network for joint learning of low-light enhancement and super-resolution, the network comprising an encoder stage and a decoder stage forming a plurality of symmetrical encoder-decoder levels, each encoder and decoder in each level comprising a vision transformer block; generating a reconstructed image based on the first and residual images.