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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

In this paper, we introduce a new computer vision task called nighttime dehaze-enhancement. This task aims to jointly perform dehazing and lightness enhancement. Our task fundamentally differs from nighttime dehazing -- our goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Harshan Baskar , Anirudh S Chakravarthy , Prateek Garg , Divyam Goel , Abhijith S Raj , Kshitij Kumar , Lakshya , Ravichandra Parvatham , V Sushant , Bijay Kumar Rout

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

Image dehazing is an ill-posed problem that has been extensively studied in the recent years. The objective performance evaluation of the dehazing methods is one of the major obstacles due to the lacking of a reference dataset. While the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Codruta O. Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti , Radu Timofte

Computer vision is increasingly used in areas such as unmanned vehicles, surveillance systems and remote sensing. However, in foggy scenarios, image degradation leads to loss of target details, which seriously affects the accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Zhenjun Zhang , Lijun Tang , Hongjin Wang , Lilian Zhang , Yunze He , Yaonan Wang

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

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

The changing level of haze is one of the main factors which affects the success of the proposed dehazing methods. However, there is a lack of controlled multi-level hazy dataset in the literature. Therefore, in this study, a new multi-level…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Bedrettin Cetinkaya , Yucel Cimtay , Fatma Nazli Gunay , Gokce Nur Yilmaz

Single image de-hazing is a challenging problem, and it is far from solved. Most current solutions require paired image datasets that include both hazy images and their corresponding haze-free ground-truth images. However, in reality,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Zahra Anvari , Vassilis Athitsos

Single image haze removal is a challenging ill-posed problem. Existing methods use various constraints/priors to get plausible dehazing solutions. The key to achieve haze removal is to estimate a medium transmission map for an input hazy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Bolun Cai , Xiangmin Xu , Kui Jia , Chunmei Qing , Dacheng Tao

Here we explore two related but important tasks based on the recently released REalistic Single Image DEhazing (RESIDE) benchmark dataset: (i) single image dehazing as a low-level image restoration problem; and (ii) high-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Yu Liu , Guanlong Zhao , Boyuan Gong , Yang Li , Ritu Raj , Niraj Goel , Satya Kesav , Sandeep Gottimukkala , Zhangyang Wang , Wenqi Ren , Dacheng Tao

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

Haze removal has been a very challenging problem due to its ill-posedness, which is more ill-posed if the input data is only a single hazy image. In this paper, we present a new approach for removing haze from a single input image. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Wei Wang , Chuanjiang He

Haze removal or dehazing is a challenging ill-posed problem that has drawn a significant attention in the last few years. Despite this growing interest, the scientific community is still lacking a reference dataset to evaluate objectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Codruta O. Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti , Radu Timofte , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Image dehazing techniques aim to enhance contrast and restore details, which are essential for preserving visual information and improving image processing accuracy. Existing methods rely on a single manual prior, which cannot effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Minglong Xue , Shuaibin Fan , Shivakumara Palaiahnakote , Mingliang Zhou

Global contextual information and local detail features are essential for haze removal tasks. Deep learning models perform well on small, low-resolution images, but they encounter difficulties with large, high-resolution ones due to GPU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiuchen Chen , Xinyu Yan , Qizhi Xu , Kaiqi Li

Existing dehazing methods deal with real-world haze images with difficulty, especially scenes with thick haze. One of the main reasons is the lack of real-world paired data and robust priors. To avoid the costly collection of paired hazy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Bing Liu , Le Wang , Mingming Liu , Hao Liu , Rui Yao , Yong Zhou , Peng Liu , Tongqiang Xia

Images captured under outdoor scenes usually suffer from low contrast and limited visibility due to suspended atmospheric particles, which directly affects the quality of photos. Despite numerous image dehazing methods have been proposed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Chongyi Li , Jichang Guo , Fatih Porikli , Huazhu Fu , Yanwei Pang

Near-infrared imaging can capture haze-free near-infrared gray images and visible color images, according to physical scattering models, e.g., Rayleigh or Mie models. However, there exist serious discrepancies in brightness and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Chang-Hwan Son , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Overfitting to synthetic training pairs remains a critical challenge in image dehazing, leading to poor generalization capability to real-world scenarios. To address this issue, existing approaches utilize unpaired realistic data for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Haoyou Deng , Zhiqiang Li , Feng Zhang , Qingbo Lu , Zisheng Cao , Yuanjie Shao , Shuhang Gu , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang