Adaptive dehazing control factor based fast single image dehazing

The single image dehazing is performed using atmospheric scattering model (ASM). The ASM is based on transmission and atmospheric light. Thus, accurate estimation of transmission is essential for quality single image dehazing. Single image dehazing is of prime focus in research nowadays. The proposed work presents a fast and accurate method for single image dehazing. The proposed method works in two folds; (i) An adaptive dehazing control factor is proposed to estimate accurate transmission, which is based on difference of maximum and minimum color channel of hazy image, and (ii) a mathematical model to compute probability of a pixel to be at short distance is presented, which is utilized to locate haziest region of the image to compute the value of atmospheric light. The proposed method obtains visually compelling results, and recovers the information content (such as structural similarity, color, and visibility) accurately. The computation speed and accuracy of the proposed method is proved using quantitative and qualitative comparison of results with state of the art dehazing methods.

     

结合暗通道先验与Hessian 正则项的图像去雾

在雾天拍摄户外图像,其对比度和可见度均受到严重的影响。目前图像去雾方法 通常依赖于准确的透射率图,而二阶的Hessian 正则项具有保留精细结构同时抑制阶梯伪影的 能力,可提高图像的对比度和可见度。为此采用暗通道先验方法获得有雾图像大气光值初始透 射率图,提出一种结合Hessian 正则项的二阶变分模型来细化初始透射率图及去雾图像。利用 交替方向乘子法(ADMM),通过引入辅助变量,使拉格朗日乘子不断更新迭代,直到能量方程 收敛,输出去雾图像。采用LIVE Image Defogging 有雾图像数据库进行了仿真实验。通过对去 除薄雾和浓雾效果图的视觉质量和定量的评估,表明该方法得到的去雾图像清晰自然,纹理细 节保持效果较好。     

Variational Formulation of Dark Channel Prior for Single Image Dehazing

In this paper, we analyze the single image dehazing problem and propose a new variational method to solve it based on the dark channel prior. In the analysis section, we determine the influence that error in estimation of parameters of the haze degradation model has on the reconstructed image and give conclusions that can be used in designing a dehazing method. After that, we use those conclusions to bias our variational method as well as create a smooth variant of the dark channel prior, so it can be directly used in variational methods as well as potentially deep learning methods. We compare the proposed method quantitatively on a synthetic hazy image dataset as well as qualitatively on real-life hazy images.

     

基于改进暗通道和导向滤波的单幅图像去雾算法

针对单幅雾霾图像中包含的大面积天空或白色物体等区域暗通道先验失效和导向滤波去雾方法去雾不彻底的问题, 提出了一种基于改进暗通道和导向滤波的单幅图像去雾算法.首先基于暗通道引入了混合暗通道, 然后对混合暗通道进行映射处理, 从而得到大气耗散函数粗估计值; 利用导向滤波方法优化大气耗散函数粗估计值, 进而求解环境光值和初始传输图; 利用全变差正则化方法对初始传输图进行优化, 以解决其平滑性较差的问题.实验结果表明, 本文算法得到的去雾图像具有较高的清晰度, 对于大面积天空或白色物体区域也能实现良好的去雾效果.     

基于暗原色及入射光假设的单幅图像去雾

目的 雾是一种常见的天气状况,针对雾能使图像中的景物对比度降低、表面颜色退化的问题,提出一种基于入射光假设的单幅图像去雾方法。方法 首先利用全局暗原色进行初步去雾,从而使图像透射率处于[0,1]范围内;然后利用雾天光照均匀的特点以及Retinex的照度估计原理进行透射图的估计;最后利用透射图以及初步去雾图像得到复原图像。结果 与He算法、Fattal算法的对比实验结果显示,该算法获得的复原图像细节清晰,颜色自然。与引导滤波优化后的He去雾算法相比,本文算法速度提高了93%。结论 大量对比实验结果表明,本文算法能够显著恢复雾天降质图像,对于薄雾和浓雾同样有效,具有广泛的适用性,且算法原理简单。此外,本文算法也同样适用于灰度图。     

Aerial image dehazing using a deep convolutional autoencoder

Aerial images and videos are extensively used for object detection and target tracking. However, due to the presence of thin clouds, haze or smoke from buildings, the processing of aerial data can be challenging. Existing single-image dehazing methods that work on ground-to-ground images, do not perform well on aerial images. Moreover, current dehazing methods are not capable for real-time processing. In this paper, a new end-to-end aerial image dehazing method using a deep convolutional autoencoder is proposed. Using the convolutional autoencoder, the dehazing problem is divided into two parts, namely, encoder, which aims extract important features to dehaze hazy regions and decoder, which aims to reconstruct the dehazed image using the down-sampled image received from the encoder. In this proposed method, we also exploit the superpixels in two different scales to generate synthetic thin cloud data to train our network. Since this network is trained in an end-to-end manner, in the test phase, for each input hazy aerial image, the proposed algorithm outputs a dehazed version without requiring any other information such as transmission map or atmospheric light value. With the proposed method, hazy regions are dehazed and objects within hazy regions become more visible while the contrast of non-hazy regions is increased. Experimental results on synthetic and real hazy aerial images demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method compared to existing dehazing methods in terms of quality and speed.

     

Joint dehazing and denoising for single nighttime image via multi-scale decomposition

Outdoor images taken in the foggy or haze weather conditions are usually contaminated due to the presence of turbid medium in the atmosphere. Moreover, images captured under nighttime haze scenarios will be degraded even further owing to some unexpected factors. However, most existing dehazing methods mainly focus on daytime haze scenes, which cannot effectively remove the haze and suppress the noise for nighttime hazy images. To overcome these intractable problems, a joint dehazing and denoising framework for nighttime haze scenes is proposed based on multi-scale decomposition. First, the glow is removed by using its characteristic of the relative smoothness and the gamma correction operation is employed on the glow-free image for improving the overall brightness. Then, we adopt the multi-scale strategy to decompose the nighttime hazy image into a structure layer and multiple texture layers based on the total variation. Subsequently, the structure layer is dehazed based on the dark channel prior (DCP) and the texture layers are denoised based on color block-matching 3D filtering (CBM3D) prior to enhancement. Finally, the dehazed structure layer and the enhanced texture layers are fused into a dehazing result. Experiments on real-world and synthetic nighttime hazy images reveal that the proposed nighttime dehazing framework outperforms other state-of-the-art daytime and nighttime dehazing techniques.

     

基于暗通道先验和核回归的图像去雾研究

在雾霾天气条件下,由于大气粒子的散射作用导致观察到的图像质量在一定程度上有所下降。本文提出一种基于暗通道先验知识和局部多项式核回归的图像去雾方法。首先,根据暗原色先验原理估计出大气光强度和初始透射率。其次,采用局部多项式核回归对透射率进行平滑和细化。最后,利用细化后的透射率和估计的大气光强度恢复雾天图像。实验结果表明,采用该方法可以有效地实现去雾。与目前最先进的方法相比,处理后的图像保留了更多的细节信息,且提高了图像清晰度。     

基于改进暗通道先验的交通图像去雾新方法

针对交通场景图像中由于雾霾导致的图像目标主体不清晰,影响监控效果的问题,提出一种基于导向滤波与自适应色阶调整的改进暗通道图像去雾新方法.首先,基于暗通道原理对原始图像进行映射处理,从而得到大气光成分与透射率的估计值,并利用多维导向滤波方法对大气透射率估计值进行优化处理;然后,根据图像降质过程的逆过程,求解雾霾图像清晰化处理初始结果;最后,利用多通道自适应色阶调整方法进一步优化初始结果,解决初始结果整体亮度较暗、不利于监控系统后期处理的问题.实验结果表明,清晰化处理后的图像具有较高的亮度和对比度值,较好地保留并增强了图像的边缘和细节信息,算法去雾霾效果显著,针对交通场景图像处理的自适应性较高.     

暗原色先验与NL-CTV模型相结合的图像去雾方法

鉴于暗原色先验算法能复原不同雾浓度和场景深度的图像,而基于非局部算子概念的NL-CTV（Non-Local Color Total Variation）模型能较好地保持图像边缘和纹理等特征,融合暗原色先验与NL-CTV模型,提出了一种新型单幅彩色图像去雾模型。通过暗原色先验得到精确的大气光强度和大气传输函数,然后推导包含大气光强度和大气传输函数的非局部能量泛函,再通过引入辅助变量和Bregman迭代参数,为其设计相应的快速split Bregman算法来求解该模型。将该算法与He算法、暗原色先验和Retinex算法的实验结果进行分析比较,从而验证了该模型不论从视觉上,还是客观数据上都要优于其他两种算法。     

视觉信息损失先验的图像分层去雾方法

目的 针对自然场景下含雾图像呈现出低对比度和色彩失真的问题,提出一种基于视觉信息损失先验的图像去雾算法,将透射图预估转化成求解信息损失函数最小值的目标规划问题。方法 首先通过输入图像的视觉特性将图像划分成含雾浓度不同的3个视觉区域。然后根据含雾图像的视觉先验知识构造视觉信息损失函数,通过像素值溢出映射规律对透射率取值范围进行约束,采用随机梯度下降法求解局部最小透射率图。最后将细化后的全局透射率图代入大气散射模型求解去雾结果。结果 结合现有的典型去雾算法进行仿真实验,本文算法能够有效地复原退化场景的对比度和清晰度,相比于传统算法,本文算法在算法实时性方面提升约20%。结论 本文算法在改善中、浓雾区域去雾效果的同时,提升了透射图预估的效率,对改善雾霾天气下视觉成像系统的能见度和鲁棒性具有重要意义。     

基于暗原色先验的快速单幅图像去雾算法

针对基于暗原色先验理论的单幅图像去雾算法中,由于某些场景下的雾天图像存在大面积明亮区域（如天空、水面或者偏白色物体等）不满足暗原色先验假设,从而导致去雾处理效果不好的问题。基于暗原色先验理论,提出了一种改进的单幅图像去雾算法。首先利用统计截断的方法估计出大气光值;然后对暗通道图进行中值滤波得到粗略估计的透射率图,并对明亮区域的透射率图进行自适应校正处理;最后将这些参数带入大气散射成像模型完成去雾处理。实验结果显示,相较于原算法而言,所提算法可以准确地选取出天空区域的像素点对大气光进行估计,有效降低明亮区域的色彩失真。通过不同算法对不同室外场景下采集的雾天图像的去雾效果的对比可知,所提算法在对明亮区域的处理上更加合理,可以较好地处理一些带有光源的图像,恢复出的图像具有很好的细节保持,视觉效果显著提高。所提算法对含有大面积明亮区域的雾天图像具有很好的增强处理效果,可以为图像分割、语义检索、智能分析等图像处理工作提供有效的预处理手段,对于交通监管、视频监控、行车视频记录、视觉导航等研究领域具有重要的意义。     

基于暗原色先验的单幅图像快速去雾算法

针对雾天环境下图像清晰度降低以及色调偏移问题,提出一种基于暗原色先验的单幅图像快速去雾算法。首先使用灰度开运算代替最小值滤波得到粗略暗通道图,根据方差标记出雾天图像各个景深突变区的位置,并对突变区的暗原色值进行细化求解;其次求解出透射率的粗略估计并使用引导滤波来进行优化;然后使用一种自适应的容差机制对天空等明亮区域的透射率进行动态修正;最后利用大气散射模型复原出无雾图像。实验结果表明,与几种典型的图像去雾算法相比,所提算法具有较快的处理速度,同时得到的复原图像细节突出、色彩丰富。     

基于大气面纱优化和透射率修正的图像去雾

基于中值滤波的图像去雾算法不能有效去除细小边缘处的雾,且天空区域容易出现颜色失真问题。因此,提出了一种基于大气面纱优化和透射率修正的单幅图像去雾算法。首先基于阈值分割提取天空区域,并降低各颜色通道最小值图像中对应区域的灰度值,然后使用加权引导滤波得到优化后的大气面纱,从而得到较为准确的透射率,最后由大气散射模型得到复原图像。相比于其他算法,该算法在优化大气面纱的同时修正了透射率,在边缘处的去雾效果更加明显,同时解决了天空区域的色彩失真问题。     

反馈调节机制的暗通道去雾算法

针对暗通道图像去雾算法在处理不满足暗通道先验条件的明亮区域时,估计的透射率偏小,导致去雾后的图像与原图像相比,色彩和纹理平滑度出现较大偏差的问题,提出反馈调节的暗通道去雾算法。该算法首先通过暗通道算法对原始有雾图像进行去雾,反馈出去雾后的图像与原始图像纹理平滑度的差异,使用模糊C-均值聚类算法分割出明亮的区域;然后用高斯函数调整明亮区域偏小的透射率,使其更加接近实际的透射率;最后利用调整后的透射率求得清晰的无雾图像。实验结果表明,该算法可以有效地处理不满足暗通道先验条件的区域,使得包含明亮区域的雾化图像,去雾后的色彩更加符合真实场景,视觉效果也更好。该算法可以提高户外监视系统的鲁棒性。     

结合暗通道先验的光补偿快速去雾算法

针对暗通道先验单幅图像去雾算法去雾不彻底、天空区域偏色严重且去雾速度慢等问题,提出了一种结合暗通道先验的光补偿快速去雾算法。首先将二阶Butterworth高通滤波器引入同态滤波函数,在频域内对最小颜色分量进行增强,同时,平滑最小颜色分量中的光照,补偿局部区域因光照不足引起的图像质量下降;然后用双边滤波对其进行平滑处理,使光照在最小颜色分量图像上过渡更加自然;最后将处理之后的最小颜色分量作为引导图细化初始透射率。实验结果表明,与Tarel算法和中值滤波算法相比,该算法得到的去雾图像具有更好的视觉效果;与引导滤波算法相比,该算法去雾效果更为彻底,天空区域颜色还原准确,且运算速度更快。     

Single Image Dehazing via Multi-scale Convolutional Neural Networks with Holistic Edges

International Journal of Computer Vision - Single image dehazing has been a challenging problem which aims to recover clear images from hazy ones. The performance of existing image dehazing methods...     

改进的暗原色先验理论视频去雾算法研究

针对暗原色先验算法出现的边缘残雾、天空区域彩色失真、去雾后图像偏暗以及实时性差等问题,提出了一种基于点暗原色先验和引导滤波的视频去雾算法。采用逐点式最小值滤波来消除块效应,并利用四叉树法来快速准确地估计大气光值,结合直方图均衡化技术来增强图像,改善视觉效果,同时利用图像采样技术和引导滤波优化算法提高速度。实验结果显示,该算法的去雾图像清晰,运算量小,适用范围广,鲁棒性好,适合实时视频去雾。     

A high fidelity haze removal algorithm for optical satellite images using progressive transmission estimation based on the dark channel prior

In this paper, a high fidelity haze removal algorithm is proposed for optical satellite images by using progressive transmission estimation based on the dark channel prior (DCP). The transmission is estimated adaptively according to the histogram of the dark channel image and the constraint of maximum transmission. Then, the guided filter is used to refine the transmission to obtain a continuous transmission map in which the clean areas are retained as much as possible. The refined transmission is applied to each visual band to obtain the initial de-hazing image. Then, the transmission is re-evaluated for the initial de-hazing image, and a guided filter with a small window size is used to refine the re-evaluated transmission. Furthermore, the transmission is stretched with the power-law transformation (PLT). To ensure fidelity in hazy areas, the optimal stretched transmission is estimated according to the artificially selected samples, from which the final haze removal results can be achieved. Several optical satellite images are collected and tested to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The evaluation results demonstrate that the proposed method is superior to the traditional methods and can recover a haze-free image with high fidelity.     

结合天空区域识别的单幅图像去雾方法

针对现有图像去雾方法易于在天空区域引入负面视觉效果的缺陷,提出一个结合天空区域识别的单幅图像去雾方法;提出一个新的天空区域特征先验知识,并利用所提先验将雾天降质图像分割为天空与非天空区域;基于天空区域对大气光进行估计,并利用暗通道先验和导向全变分模型对非天空区域的透射率进行估计,从而基于大气散射模型获得去雾处理后的图像;使用一种邻域自适应的Retinex方法克服了去雾处理后图像偏暗的问题。对比实验证明,所提方法相比现有的类似方法具备更好的有效性及鲁棒性。