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Single image haze removal is an extremely challenging problem due to its inherent ill-posed nature. Several prior-based and learning-based methods have been proposed in the literature to solve this problem and they have achieved superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 He Zhang , Vishwanath Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

Hazy images are often subject to color distortion, blurring, and other visible quality degradation. Some existing CNN-based methods have great performance on removing homogeneous haze, but they are not robust in non-homogeneous case. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Minghan Fu , Huan Liu , Yankun Yu , Jun Chen , Keyan Wang

Single-image dehazing is a challenging problem due to its ill-posed nature. Existing methods rely on a suboptimal two-step approach, where an intermediate product like a depth map is estimated, based on which the haze-free image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Yu Zhang , Xinchao Wang , Xiaojun Bi , Dacheng Tao

Images captured in hazy outdoor conditions often suffer from colour distortion, low contrast, and loss of detail, which impair high-level vision tasks. Single image dehazing is essential for applications such as autonomous driving and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Divine Joseph Appiah , Donghai Guan , Abdul Nasser Kasule , Mingqiang Wei

Images captured in hazy weather generally suffer from quality degradation, and many dehazing methods have been developed to solve this problem. However, single image dehazing problem is still challenging due to its ill-posed nature. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Pengyang Ling , Huaian Chen , Xiao Tan , Yimeng Shan , Yi Jin

Increasing the visibility of nighttime hazy images is challenging because of uneven illumination from active artificial light sources and haze absorbing/scattering. The absence of large-scale benchmark datasets hampers progress in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jing Zhang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Dacheng Tao

Existing research based on deep learning has extensively explored the problem of daytime image dehazing. However, few studies have considered the characteristics of nighttime hazy scenes. There are two distinctions between nighttime and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xiaofeng Cong , Jie Gui , Jing Zhang , Junming Hou , Hao Shen

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of methods dealing with visibility enhancement of images taken in hazy or foggy scenes. The survey begins with discussing the optical models of atmospheric scattering media and image formation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Yu Li , Shaodi You , Michael S. Brown , Robby T. Tan

Image contrast enhancement for outdoor vision is important for smart car auxiliary transport systems. The video frames captured in poor weather conditions are often characterized by poor visibility. Most image dehazing algorithms consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Huimin Lu , Yujie Li , Shota Nakashima , Seiichi Serikawa

Remote Sensing Image Dehazing (RSID) poses significant challenges in real-world scenarios due to the complex atmospheric conditions and severe color distortions that degrade image quality. The scarcity of real-world remote sensing hazy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zeng-Hui Zhu , Wei Lu , Si-Bao Chen , Chris H. Q. Ding , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Removing haze from real-world images is challenging due to unpredictable weather conditions, resulting in the misalignment of hazy and clear image pairs. In this paper, we propose an innovative dehazing framework that operates under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Junkai Fan , Fei Guo , Jianjun Qian , Xiang Li , Jun Li , Jian Yang

Image dehazing poses significant challenges in environmental perception. Recent research mainly focus on deep learning-based methods with single modality, while they may result in severe information loss especially in dense-haze scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Meng Yu , Te Cui , Haoyang Lu , Yufeng Yue

Recovering a clear image from a single hazy image is an open inverse problem. Although significant research progress has been made, most existing methods ignore the effect that downstream tasks play in promoting upstream dehazing. From the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yafei Zhang , Shen Zhou , Huafeng Li

Image hazing aims to render a hazy image from a given clean one, which could be applied to a variety of practical applications such as gaming, filming, photographic filtering, and image dehazing. To generate plausible haze, we study two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Boyun Li , Yijie Lin , Xiao Liu , Peng Hu , Jiancheng Lv , Xi Peng

The presence of non-homogeneous haze can cause scene blurring, color distortion, low contrast, and other degradations that obscure texture details. Existing homogeneous dehazing methods struggle to handle the non-uniform distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yu Guo , Yuan Gao , Ryan Wen Liu , Yuxu Lu , Jingxiang Qu , Shengfeng He , Wenqi Ren

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

Nighttime image dehazing remains a challenging low-level vision problem due to the joint presence of haze, glow, non-uniform illumination, color distortion, and sensor noise, which often invalidate assumptions commonly used in daytime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mohammad Heydari , Wei Dong , Shahram Shirani , Jun Chen , Han Zhou

Single image dehazing is an important low-level vision task with many applications. Early researches have investigated different kinds of visual priors to address this problem. However, they may fail when their assumptions are not valid on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Risheng Liu , Xin Fan , Minjun Hou , Zhiying Jiang , Zhongxuan Luo , Lei Zhang

Existing single image dehazing methods have demonstrated satisfactory performance on homogeneous thin-haze images; however, they often struggle with non-homogeneous hazy images that exhibit spatially varying haze concentrations and abrupt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yingming Zhang , Wuqi Su , Qing Xiao , Yonggang Yang

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