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.

     

Bounding function for fast computation of transmission in single image dehazing

Multimedia Tools and Applications - There exist multiple dehazed images corresponding to a single hazy image due to ill-posed nature of single image dehazing (SID), making it a challenging problem....     

An improved linear depth model for single image fog removal

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Outdoor images lose color contrast and visibility in poor weather conditions (like fog, mist, haze and rain), which affects computer vision applications...     

Estimation of minimum color channel using difference channel in single image Dehazing

Single image dehazing (SID) solves the atmospheric scattering model (ATSM). The ill-defined nature of the SID makes it a challenging problem. The transmission is the prime parameter of ATSM. Hence, accurate transmission is essential for quality of SID. The existing methods of SID estimate the transmission based on priors with strong assumptions (such as dark channel prior). These methods do not recover original colors, structure and visibility due to wrong transmission under invalidity of these assumptions. Therefor, the difference channel (DCH) is proposed to estimate accurate transmission. The DCH non-linearly translates the minimum channel of hazy image into minimum channel of haze-free image, which is used to compute the value of transmission. The DCH is based on an observation that difference of maximum and minimum color channel of the hazy image is negatively correlated with depth. The proposed method is able to recover the details from hazy image in the form of structure, edges, corners, colors and visibility due to the DCH. The accuracy and robustness of the proposed method is proved by comparing the results with known dehazing methods based on qualitative and quantitative analysis using benchmark data sets.