基于SoPC的视频图像快速去雾

针对现有图像去雾算法时间复杂度高,难于实时处理的问题,提出一款基于片上可编程系统(SoPC)的视频图像快速去雾系统。介绍了平台的软件流程和硬件结构,对暗原色先验和导向滤波理论进行深入研究,并将暗原色先验和导向滤波算法移植到所设计的SoPC平台上进行测试。测试结果表明,该系统能满足视频图像实时去雾的要求,并且恢复的图像清晰,对比度好,颜色自然。     

Underwater image enhancement by wavelength compensation and dehazing

Light scattering and color change are two major sources of distortion for underwater photography. Light scattering is caused by light incident on objects reflected and deflected multiple times by particles present in the water before reaching the camera. This in turn lowers the visibility and contrast of the image captured. Color change corresponds to the varying degrees of attenuation encountered by light traveling in the water with different wavelengths, rendering ambient underwater environments dominated by a bluish tone. No existing underwater processing techniques can handle light scattering and color change distortions suffered by underwater images, and the possible presence of artificial lighting simultaneously. This paper proposes a novel systematic approach to enhance underwater images by a dehazing algorithm, to compensate the attenuation discrepancy along the propagation path, and to take the influence of the possible presence of an artifical light source into consideration. Once the depth map, i.e., distances between the objects and the camera, is estimated, the foreground and background within a scene are segmented. The light intensities of foreground and background are compared to determine whether an artificial light source is employed during the image capturing process. After compensating the effect of artifical light, the haze phenomenon and discrepancy in wavelength attenuation along the underwater propagation path to camera are corrected. Next, the water depth in the image scene is estimated according to the residual energy ratios of different color channels existing in the background light. Based on the amount of attenuation corresponding to each light wavelength, color change compensation is conducted to restore color balance. The performance of the proposed algorithm for wavelength compensation and image dehazing (WCID) is evaluated both objectively and subjectively by utilizing ground-truth color patches and video downloaded from the Youtube website. Both results demonstrate that images with significantly enhanced visibility and superior color fidelity are obtained by the WCID proposed.     

基于局部对比度优化的教学视频图像增强方法

针对录制的教学视频图像对比度低或设备引起的伪薄雾情况,提出一种局部对比度优化的增强方法。在反锐化掩模方法的基础上对图像分块进行对比度增强。为求取最大对比度,设定增益因子的约束条件,并求得最优值。同时为解决分块增强带来的块效应,又采用引导滤波对增益因子进行优化。实验结果表明,该方法能有效地对降质的教学视频图像进行增强,具有较好的增强效果和效率。     

Aethra-net: Single image and video dehazing using autoencoder

A fast and efficient video dehazing system with low computational complexity has a huge demand among drivers during hazy winter nights. There are only a few video dehazing models that exist in literature. Video dehazing requires the sequential extraction and processing of frames. The processed frames must be restored in the same sequence as the original video. However, the existing video dehazing algorithms suffer from color distortion due to the continuous processing of frames. They are not suitable for videos with dense haze. Furthermore, some dehazing systems require hardware, whereas the proposed model is completely software-based to reduce the computational costs. In this paper, an image and video dehazing system called Aethra-Net is developed. A gush enhancer-based autoencoder is modified to obtain the transmission map. The structure of gush enhancement module resembles the processing of light entering the human eye from different paths. The multiple blocks of Resnet-101 layers are employed to overcome vanishing gradient problem. The vessel enhancement filter is also incorporated to enhance the performance of the proposed system. The proposed model has a susceptibility to compute the dehazed images effectively. The proposed model is evaluated on various benchmark datasets and compared with the existing dehazing techniques. Experimental results reveal that the performance of Aethra-Net is found superior as compared to the existing dehazing models.     

一种改进实时图像去雾的暗原色先验算法

针对暗原色先验图像去雾算法运行时间长,天空区域分割耗时,复原图像中存在方块效应以及整体偏暗等缺点,提出一种改进的实时图像去雾暗原色先验算法。在暗通道求取时,使用快速最小值滤波,加快传统暗通道求取最小值排序的时间;在大气光求取时,使用像素值限定的方法快速排除天空区域,使用暗通道图像剩余最亮部分对应原图像像素值的均值,有效避免原算法中求取大气光值过大导致复原图像失真的现象;在透射率的优化时,使用Sobel边缘检测与求取图像二阶导数图像,得到精细的透射率,改善了细化透射率的时间复杂度;对最终图像采取伽码变换,提高图像亮度。实验结果表明,与原暗通道先验算法相比,此算法有效提高了算法的实时性。     

An investigation of dehazing effects on image and video coding

This paper makes an investigation of the dehazing effects on image and video coding for surveillance systems. The goal is to achieve good dehazed images and videos at the receiver while sustaining low bitrates (using compression) in the transmission pipeline. At first, this paper proposes a novel method for single-image dehazing, which is used for the investigation. It operates at a faster speed than current methods and can avoid halo effects by using the median operation. We then consider the dehazing effects in compression by investigating the coding artifacts and motion estimation in cases of applying any dehazing method before or after compression. We conclude that better dehazing performance with fewer artifacts and better coding efficiency is achieved when the dehazing is applied before compression. Simulations for Joint Photographers Expert Group images in addition to subjective and objective tests with H.264 compressed sequences validate our conclusion.     

Real-world image dehazing with improved joint enhancement and exposure fusion

In this work, a single image dehazing method that improves the haze removal capacity of the Joint Contrast Enhancement and Exposure Fusion (CEEF) method with Smoothing-Sharpening Image Filter (SSIF) is presented. In this method, the hazy image is first sharpened with SSIF to obtain a sharper image. In this way, the difference between haze and objects is amplified. Then, the AHE procedure in CEEF is replaced by CLAHE to obtain an enhanced CEEF. The enhanced CEEF is applied to the filtering result to obtain the final dehazed image. Observations demonstrate that the proposed method obtains enhanced results while reducing the amount of haze. The visual and quantitative comparisons between the proposed method and state-of-the-art dehazing methods show that the proposed method has better dehazing performance and has a 50% improvement in terms of the FADE metric compared to the closest result.     

Pre-processing for single image dehazing

Existing single image haze removal algorithms could suffer from noise amplification in sky regions and possible color distortion in restored images due to noise in haze images. In this paper, a simple pre-processing tool is introduced for single image haze removal so as to reduce the effect of noise in the restored image. The input image is first decomposed into base and detail layers by using a weighted guided image filter (WGIF). The airlight and transmission map are estimated from the base layer. In order to restore the objects close to the camera well, the decomposition of haze image is adaptive to the value of the transmission map. If the transmission map of a pixel is small, it is decomposed into two layers, otherwise, not decomposed. Since the noise is included in the detail layer, the base layer is amplified in the final image if the haze image is decomposed. Experiments show that the proposed pre-processing tool can indeed be applied to improve the state-of-the-art haze removal algorithms.     

水下视频图像的超分辨率重建与增强

针对水下视频图像对比度低、图像模糊和噪声突出的特点,提出一种新的基于凸集投影(POCS)的超分辨率图像重建与增强算法。在POCS迭代约束的过程中,采用小波域非线性函数抑制噪声并突出细节,然后用能量非递减性约束集进行修正。实验表明,该方法具有较好的超分辨率重建与增强效果。     

A statistical image resolution enhancement approach for mixed-resolution video

Many scalable video compression techniques utilise a mixed-resolution scheme, which down-samples some frames at the encoder to produce reduced-resolution frames while keeping resolutions of other frames unchanged as full resolutions, in order to achieve higher compression gain. Image enlargement technique is required at the decoder to recover the original full-resolution frames for this mixed-resolution video system set-up. This article proposes a Bayesian approach to enlarge the reduced-resolution frame via its maximum a-posterior estimation, using the information from the observed reduced-resolution frame, plus more detailed information extracted from available neighbouring frames in full resolution. Experiments are conducted to justify that the proposed approach outperforms a few conventional approaches.     

Attention mechanism enhancement algorithm based on cycle consistent generative adversarial networks for single image dehazing

This paper proposes AMEA-GAN, an attention mechanism enhancement algorithm. It is cycle consistency-based generative adversarial networks for single image dehazing, which follows the mechanism of the human retina and to a great extent guarantees the color authenticity of enhanced images. To address the color distortion and fog artifacts in real-world images caused by most image dehazing methods, we refer to the human visual neurons and use the attention mechanism of similar Horizontal cell and Amazon cell in the retina to improve the structure of the generator adversarial networks. By introducing our proposed attention mechanism, the effect of haze removal becomes more natural without leaving any artifacts, especially in the dense fog area. We also use an improved symmetrical structure of FUNIE-GAN to improve the visual color perception or the color authenticity of the enhanced image and to produce a better visual effect. Experimental results show that our proposed model generates satisfactory results, that is, the output image of AMEA-GAN bears a strong sense of reality. Compared with state-of-the-art methods, AMEA-GAN not only dehazes images taken in daytime scenes but also can enhance images taken in nighttime scenes and even optical remote sensing imagery.     

Color retinal image enhancement using luminosity and quantile based contrast enhancement

Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing - Retinal imaging is used to diagnose common eye diseases. But retinal images that suffer from image blurring, uneven illumination and low contrast...     

基于多尺度对比度塔的图像增强新算法

传统图像增强算法对灰度级比较分散、细节信号分布在整个灰度级空间的图像难以取得令人满意的效果,而且往往在增强图像的同时也使图像的噪声得到了提升。在此针对传统图像增强技术的缺点,提出了一种新的图像增强算法。该算法采用高斯窗口函数对图像进行变换,并通过构造多尺度对比度塔来对图像进行增强。实验结果表明该算法在灰度分散的情况下同样能有效地对细节信号进行增强,同时对图像中的噪声信号也有较好的抑制作用。     

基于改进直方图的红外图像增强方法

为了能在动态范围压缩的同时增强红外图像的对比度,提出了一种基于Sobel梯度直方图均衡算法（gradient histogram equalization,GHE）。与以往的直方图均衡化（histogram equalization,HE）方法不同,该方法自适应地为图像强梯度的灰阶分配高对比度,保留并增强16 bit图像中更多的细节。随后使用双Gamma映射对映射曲线进行调整,有效地抑制图像亮部的过曝现象,同时提高暗部的细节。该方法相比于传统的直方图均衡化算法在暗区细节处理、过曝抑制、对比度增强等方面都有较好的效果。     

单幅图像的快速去雾算法

雾的存在使得户外图像的处理变得困难。雾、霭、烟等现象会使彩色图像退化,对比度降低。介绍了一种单幅图像的去雾新算法,不需要分割图像,直接利用高斯低通滤波器分离出背景空气光,利用改良的暗通道法对大气光进行估计,结合雾天图像的物理模型对图像进行复原,最后再对图像的饱和度进行校正,得到最终的复原效果。该算法的主要优点是速度快,...     

一种抗噪的红外图像对比度增强方法

提出一种基于离散平稳小波变换和非线性增益的红外图像对比度增强方法。对红外图像进行离散平稳小波变换后,利用所提出的去噪方法对分辨率较好的各高频子带直接去噪;并利用所提出的非线性增益法结合文中的去噪法对分辨率较差的各高频子带进行增强。实验结果表明,提出的方法在有效地增强红外图像对比度的同时,又能很好地抑制相关噪声。算法在视觉质量上优于传统的反锐化掩膜法、直方图均衡法。     

一种改进的低对比度图像增强算法

为提升图像对比度,增强图像细节,抑制图像噪声,在认真研究图像增强的基础上,对图像进行小波变换,低频子带系数采用广义模糊算子进行处理,能够更大程度地提升图像对比度和局部亮度.采用贝叶斯萎缩阈值算法将高频子带系数分为噪声和细节信息,通过非线性增益函数抑制噪声并放大细节信息.对传统非线性增益函数进行改进,引入调节因子α,以实现不同程度的细节增强.同时根据信息熵来选取非线性增益函数中参数c的值,以提高算法的自适应性.仿真结果表明,所提算法取得了较高的信息熵、峰值信噪比、清晰度和对比度,图像增强质量较好.     

Weakly supervised single image dehazing

Single image dehazing is a critical image pre-processing step for many practical vision systems. Most existing dehazing methods solve this problem utilizing various of hand-crafted priors or by supervised training on the synthetic hazy image information (such as haze-free image, transmission map and atmospheric light). However, the assumptions on the hand-crafted priors are easily violated and collecting realistic transmission map and atmospheric light are unpractical. In this paper, we propose a novel weakly supervised network based on the multi-level multi-scale block. The proposed network reduces the constraint on the training data and automatically estimates the transmission map and the atmospheric light as well as the intermediate haze-free image without using any realistic transmission map and atmospheric light as supervision. Moreover, the estimated intermediate haze-free image helps to generate accurate transmission map and atmospheric light by embedding the physical-model, which presents reliable restoration of the final haze-free image. In particular, our network also can be trained on the real-world dataset to fine-tune the model and the fine-tuning operation improves the dehazing performance on the real-world dataset. Quantitative and qualitative experimental results demonstrate the proposed method performs on par with the supervised methods.     

Densely connected convolutional transformer for single image dehazing

Image Dehazing is an important low-level vision task that aims to remove the haze from an image. In this paper, we proposed Densely Connected Convolutional Transformer (DCCT) for single image dehazing. DCCT is an efficient architecture that combines the multi-head Performer with the local dependencies. To prevent loss of information between features at different levels, we propose a learnable connection layer that is used to fuse features at different levels across the entire architecture. We guide the training of DCCT through a joint loss considering a supervised metric learning approach that allows us to consider both negative and positive features for a multi-image perceptual loss. We validate the design choices and the effectiveness of the proposed DCCT through ablation studies. Through comparison with the representative techniques, we establish that the proposed DCCT is highly competitive with the state of the art.