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High-quality images are crucial in remote sensing and UAV applications, but atmospheric haze can severely degrade image quality, making image dehazing a critical research area. Since the introduction of deep convolutional neural networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Gao Yu Lee , Jinkuan Chen , Tanmoy Dam , Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Daniel Puiu Poenar , Vu N Duong

Image dehazing has become an important computational imaging topic in the recent years. However, due to the lack of ground truth images, the comparison of dehazing methods is not straightforward, nor objective. To overcome this issue we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Codruta O. Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti , Radu Timofte , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Nighttime image dehazing is a challenging task due to the presence of multiple types of adverse degrading effects including glow, haze, blurry, noise, color distortion, and so on. However, most previous studies mainly focus on daytime image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yun Liu , Zhongsheng Yan , Sixiang Chen , Tian Ye , Wenqi Ren , Erkang Chen

To evaluate their performance, existing dehazing approaches generally rely on distance measures between the generated image and its corresponding ground truth. Despite its ability to produce visually good images, using pixel-based or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Sébastien de Blois , Ihsen Hedhli , Christian Gagné

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

Due to distribution shift, the performance of deep learning-based method for image dehazing is adversely affected when applied to real-world hazy images. In this paper, we find that such deviation in dehazing task between real and synthetic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Zhiqiang Yuan , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

The formulation of the hazy image is mainly dominated by the reflected lights and ambient airlight. Existing dehazing methods often ignore the depth cues and fail in distant areas where heavier haze disturbs the visibility. However, we note…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yudong Liang , Bin Wang , Jiaying Liu , Deyu Li , Sanping Zhou , Wenqi Ren

In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm to directly restore a clear image from a hazy input. The proposed algorithm hinges on an end-to-end trainable neural network that consists of an encoder and a decoder. The encoder is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Wenqi Ren , Lin Ma , Jiawei Zhang , Jinshan Pan , Xiaochun Cao , Wei Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Image dehazing is crucial for clarifying images obscured by haze or fog, but current learning-based approaches is dependent on large volumes of training data and hence consumed significant computational power. Additionally, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Gao Yu Lee , Tanmoy Dam , Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Daniel Puiu Poenar , Vu Duong

In recent years, deep neural networks tasks have increasingly relied on high-quality image inputs. With the development of high-resolution representation learning, the task of image dehazing has received significant attention. Previously,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yukai Shi , Zhipeng Weng , Yupei Lin , Cidan Shi , Xiaojun Yang , Liang Lin

The recent physical model-free dehazing methods have achieved state-of-the-art performances. However, without the guidance of physical models, the performances degrade rapidly when applied to real scenarios due to the unavailable or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Yudong Liang , Bin Wang , Jiaying Liu , Deyu Li , Yuhua Qian , Wenqi Ren

High-resolution (HR) image harmonization is of great significance in real-world applications such as image synthesis and image editing. However, due to the high memory costs, existing dense pixel-to-pixel harmonization methods are mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Jianqi Chen , Yilan Zhang , Zhengxia Zou , Keyan Chen , Zhenwei Shi

Blind dehazed image quality assessment (BDQA), which aims to accurately predict the visual quality of dehazed images without any reference information, is essential for the evaluation, comparison, and optimization of image dehazing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yirui Zeng , Jun Fu , Hadi Amirpour , Huasheng Wang , Guanghui Yue , Hantao Liu , Ying Chen , Wei Zhou

Deep learning-based methods have garnered significant attention in remote sensing (RS) image compression due to their superior performance. Most of these methods focus on enhancing the coding capability of the compression network and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Junhui Li , Xingsong Hou

Haze degrades content and obscures information of images, which can negatively impact vision-based decision-making in real-time systems. In this paper, we propose an efficient fully convolutional neural network (CNN) image dehazing method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Peter Morales , Tzofi Klinghoffer , Seung Jae Lee

Image dehazing without paired haze-free images is of immense importance, as acquiring paired images often entails significant cost. However, we observe that previous unpaired image dehazing approaches tend to suffer from performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-13 Chen Liu , Jiaqi Fan , Guosheng Yin

Real-world image dehazing (RID) aims to remove haze induced degradation from real scenes. This task remains challenging due to non-uniform haze distribution, spatially varying illumination from multiple light sources, and the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Chengyu Fang , Chunming He , Yuelin Zhang , Chubin Chen , Chenyang Zhu , Longxiang Tang , Xiu Li

Single-image dehazing under dense and non-uniform haze conditions remains challenging due to severe information degradation and spatial heterogeneity. Traditional diffusion-based dehazing methods struggle with insufficient generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ruicheng Zhang , Puxin Yan , Zeyu Zhang , Yicheng Chang , Hongyi Chen , Zhi Jin

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

Image denoising is often empowered by accurate prior information. In recent years, data-driven neural network priors have shown promising performance for RGB natural image denoising. Compared to classic handcrafted priors (e.g., sparsity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Yu-Chun Miao , Xi-Le Zhao , Xiao Fu , Jian-Li Wang , Yu-Bang Zheng