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Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in image dehazing. Many deep learning methods have been proposed to tackle this challenge, and have made significant accomplishments dealing with homogeneous haze. However, these solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yangyi Liu , Huan Liu , Liangyan Li , Zijun Wu , Jun Chen

High-quality dehazing performance is highly dependent upon the accurate estimation of transmission map. In this work, the coarse estimation version is first obtained by weightedly fusing two different transmission maps, which are generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Qiaoling Shu , Chuansheng Wu , Zhe Xiao , Ryan Wen Liu

Patient scans from MRI often suffer from noise, which hampers the diagnostic capability of such images. As a method to mitigate such artifact, denoising is largely studied both within the medical imaging community and beyond the community…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Hyungjin Chung , Eun Sun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

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

We propose a fusion algorithm for haze removal that combines color information from an RGB image and edge information extracted from its corresponding NIR image using Haar wavelets. The proposed algorithm is based on the key observation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Sumit Laha , Ankit Sharma , Shengnan Hu , Hassan Foroosh

The quality of images captured in outdoor environments can be affected by poor weather conditions such as fog, dust, and atmospheric scattering of other particles. This problem can bring extra challenges to high-level computer vision tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Jiaxi He , Frank Z. Xing , Ran Yang , Cishen Zhang

Ultrasound denoising is essential for mitigating speckle-induced degradations, thereby enhancing image quality and improving diagnostic reliability. Nevertheless, because speckle patterns inherently encode both texture and fine anatomical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zhenyu Bu , Yuanxin Xie , Guang-Quan Zhou

The issue of image haze removal has attracted wide attention in recent years. However, most existing haze removal methods cannot restore the scene with clear blue sky, since the color and texture information of the object in the original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Xiaoyan Zhang , Gaoyang Tang , Yingying Zhu , Qi Tian

Electrocardiography (ECG) signals are frequently degraded by noise, limiting their clinical reliability in both conventional and wearable settings. Existing methods for addressing ECG noise, relying on artifact classification or denoising,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 Tae-Seong Han , Jae-Wook Heo , Hakseung Kim , Cheol-Hui Lee , Hyub Huh , Eue-Keun Choi , Hye Jin Kim , Dong-Joo Kim

Relying on the representation power of neural networks, most recent works have often neglected several factors involved in haze degradation, such as transmission (the amount of light reaching an observer from a scene over distance) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Eun Woo Im , Junsung Shin , Sungyong Baik , Tae Hyun Kim

Real-world image denoising is an extremely important image processing problem, which aims to recover clean images from noisy images captured in natural environments. In recent years, diffusion models have achieved very promising results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Cheng Yang , Lijing Liang , Zhixun Su

Clear imaging under hazy conditions is a critical task. Prior-based and neural methods have improved results. However, they operate on RGB frames, which suffer from limited dynamic range. Therefore, dehazing remains ill-posed and can erase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ling Wang , Yunfan Lu , Wenzong Ma , Huizai Yao , Pengteng Li , Hui Xiong

Remote sensing images (RSIs) are frequently degraded by haze, fog, and thin clouds, which obscure surface reflectance and hinder downstream applications. This study presents the first systematic and unified survey of RSIs dehazing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Heng Zhou , Xiaoxiong Liu , Zhenxi Zhang , Jieheng Yun , Chengyang Li , Yunchu Yang , Dongyi Xia , Chunna Tian , Xiao-Jun Wu

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

Ultrasound is widely used in medical diagnostics allowing for accessible and powerful imaging but suffers from resolution limitations due to diffraction and the finite aperture of the imaging system, which restricts diagnostic use. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Felix Duelmer , Walter Simson , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Angelos Karlas , Nassir Navab

Medical ultrasound imaging relies heavily on high-quality signal processing to provide reliable and interpretable image reconstructions. Conventionally, reconstruction algorithms where derived from physical principles. These algorithms rely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Ben Luijten , Nishith Chennakeshava , Yonina C. Eldar , Massimo Mischi , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Image dehazing has drawn a significant attention in recent years. Learning-based methods usually require paired hazy and corresponding ground truth (haze-free) images for training. However, it is difficult to collect real-world image pairs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ruikun Zhang , Hao Yang , Yan Yang , Ying Fu , Liyuan Pan

Current deep dehazing methods only focus on removing haze from hazy images, lacking the capability to translate between hazy and haze-free images. To address this issue, we propose a residual-based efficient bidirectional diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Bing Liu , Le Wang , Hao Liu , Mingming Liu

Model-based single image dehazing algorithms restore haze-free images with sharp edges and rich details for real-world hazy images at the expense of low PSNR and SSIM values for synthetic hazy images. Data-driven ones restore haze-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Zhengguo Li , Chaobing Zheng , Haiyan Shu , Shiqian Wu

Image dehazing remains a challenging problem due to the spatially varying nature of haze in real-world scenes. While existing methods have demonstrated the promise of large-scale pretrained models for image dehazing, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Hongfei Zhang , Kun Zhou , Ruizheng Wu , Jiangbo Lu