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Haze usually leads to deteriorated images with low contrast, color shift and structural distortion. We observe that many deep learning based models exhibit exceptional performance on removing homogeneous haze, but they usually fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Yangyi Liu , Jun Chen

In recent years, single image dehazing models (SIDM) based on atmospheric scattering model (ASM) have achieved remarkable results. However, it is noted that ASM-based SIDM degrades its performance in dehazing real world hazy images due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Cong Wang , Yan Huang , Yuexian Zou , Yong Xu

Deep models have demonstrated recent success in single-image dehazing. Most prior methods consider fully supervised training and learn from paired clean and hazy images, where a hazy image is synthesized based on a clean image and its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zhengyang Lou , Huan Xu , Fangzhou Mu , Yanli Liu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Liang Shang , Jiang Li , Bochen Guan , Yin Li , Yu Hen Hu

Image dehazing aims to restore spatial details from hazy images. There have emerged a number of image dehazing algorithms, designed to increase the visibility of those hazy images. However, much less work has been focused on evaluating the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Wei Zhou , Ruizeng Zhang , Leida Li , Hantao Liu , Huiyan Chen

Images captured in hazy and smoky environments suffer from reduced visibility, posing a challenge when monitoring infrastructures and hindering emergency services during critical situations. The proposed work investigates the use of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Oscar H. Ramírez-Agudelo , Akshay N. Shewatkar , Edoardo Milana , Roland C. Aydin , Kai Franke

We present a novel dehazing and low-light enhancement method based on an illumination map that is accurately estimated by a convolutional neural network (CNN). In this paper, the illumination map is used as a component for three different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Guisik Kim , Junseok Kwon

Nighttime image dehazing faces a more complex degradation pattern than its daytime counterpart, as haze scattering couples with low illumination, non-uniform lighting, and strong light interference. Under limited supervision, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xining Ge , Weijun Yuan , Gengjia Chang , Xuyang Li , Shuhong Liu

Due to the domain gap between real-world and synthetic hazy images, current data-driven dehazing algorithms trained on synthetic datasets perform well on synthetic data but struggle to generalize to real-world scenarios. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shijun Zhou , Xing Xie , Baojie Fan , Jiandong Tian

Addressing the challenge of removing atmospheric fog or haze from digital images, known as image dehazing, has recently gained significant traction in the computer vision community. Although contemporary dehazing models have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Anas M. Ali , Anis Koubaa , Bilel Benjdira

Dark Channel Prior (DCP) is a widely recognized traditional dehazing algorithm. However, it may fail in bright region and the brightness of the restored image is darker than hazy image. In this paper, we propose an effective method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Binghan Li , Wenrui Zhang , Mi Lu

Haze removal in aerial images is a challenging problem due to considerable variation in spatial details and varying contrast. Changes in particulate matter density often lead to degradation in visibility. Therefore, several approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Aditya Mehta , Harsh Sinha , Murari Mandal , Pratik Narang

Single image dehazing as a fundamental low-level vision task, is essential for the development of robust intelligent surveillance system. In this paper, we make an early effort to consider dehazing robustness under variational haze density,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 De Cheng , Yan Li , Dingwen Zhang , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Jiande Sun

Existing approaches towards single image dehazing including both model-based and learning-based heavily rely on the estimation of so-called transmission maps. Despite its conceptual simplicity, using transmission maps as an intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Yixin Du , Xin Li

While nighttime image dehazing has been extensively studied, converting nighttime hazy images to daytime-equivalent brightness remains largely unaddressed. Existing methods face two critical limitations: (1) datasets overlook the brightness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xiaofeng Cong , Yu-Xin Zhang , Haoran Wei , Yeying Jin , Junming Hou , Jie Gui , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Ultra-High-Definition (UHD) image dehazing faces challenges such as limited scene adaptability in prior-based methods and high computational complexity with color distortion in deep learning approaches. To address these issues, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Xingchi Chen , Pu Wang , Xuerui Li , Chaopeng Li , Juxiang Zhou , Jianhou Gan , Dianjie Lu , Guijuan Zhang , Wenqi Ren , Zhuoran Zheng

Image dehazing aims to remove unwanted hazy artifacts in images. Although previous research has collected paired real-world hazy and haze-free images to improve dehazing models' performance in real-world scenarios, these models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Fu-Jen Tsai , Yan-Tsung Peng , Yen-Yu Lin , Chia-Wen Lin

Existing image enhancement methods fall short of expectations because with them it is difficult to improve global and local image contrast simultaneously. To address this problem, we propose a histogram equalization-based method that adapts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Xiaomeng Wu , Takahito Kawanishi , Kunio Kashino

This survey aims at reviewing recent computer vision techniques used in the assessment of image aesthetic quality. Image aesthetic assessment aims at computationally distinguishing high-quality photos from low-quality ones based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Yubin Deng , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Imaging through dense fog presents unique challenges, with essential visual information crucial for applications like object detection and recognition obscured, thereby hindering conventional image processing methods. Despite improvements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Libang Chen , Jinyan Lin , Qihang Bian , Yikun Liu , Jianying Zhou

Haze severely degrades the visual quality of remote sensing images and hampers the performance of road extraction, vehicle detection, and traffic flow monitoring. The emerging denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) exhibits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jiamei Xiong , Xuefeng Yan , Yongzhen Wang , Wei Zhao , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Mingqiang Wei