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Image dehazing is a crucial task that involves the enhancement of degraded images to recover their sharpness and textures. While vision Transformers have exhibited impressive results in diverse dehazing tasks, their quadratic complexity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xiongfei Su , Siyuan Li , Yuning Cui , Miao Cao , Yulun Zhang , Zheng Chen , Zongliang Wu , Zedong Wang , Yuanlong Zhang , Xin Yuan

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

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

Blind face restoration methods have shown remarkable performance, particularly when trained on large-scale synthetic datasets with supervised learning. These datasets are often generated by simulating low-quality face images with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tianshu Kuai , Sina Honari , Igor Gilitschenski , Alex Levinshtein

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

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

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 the real world, the degradation of images taken under haze can be quite complex, where the spatial distribution of haze is varied from image to image. Recent methods adopt deep neural networks to recover clean scenes from hazy images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Tian Ye , Mingchao Jiang , Yunchen Zhang , Liang Chen , Erkang Chen , Pen Chen , Zhiyong Lu

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

Due to distribution shift, deep learning based methods for image dehazing suffer from performance degradation when applied to real-world hazy images. In this paper, we consider a dehazing framework based on conditional diffusion models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Jing Wang , Songtao Wu , Kuanhong Xu , Zhiqiang Yuan

The recent emergence of diffusion models has significantly advanced the precision of learnable priors, presenting innovative avenues for addressing inverse problems. Since inverse problems inherently entail maximum a posteriori estimation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jiawei Zhang , Jiaxin Zhuang , Cheng Jin , Gen Li , Yuantao Gu

A significant research effort is focused on exploiting the amazing capacities of pretrained diffusion models for the editing of images.They either finetune the model, or invert the image in the latent space of the pretrained model. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Senmao Li , Joost van de Weijer , Taihang Hu , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Qibin Hou , Yaxing Wang , Jian Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng

Images with haze of different varieties often pose a significant challenge to dehazing. Therefore, guidance by estimates of haze parameters related to the variety would be beneficial, and their progressive update jointly with haze reduction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Aupendu Kar , Sobhan Kanti Dhara , Debashis Sen , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Transformers offer strong global modeling for single-image dehazing but come with high computational costs. Most methods rely on spatial features to capture long-range dependencies, making them less effective under complex haze conditions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Lirong Zheng , Yanshan Li , Rui Yu , Kaihao Zhang

Image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from degraded observations. When the degradation process is known, the recovery problem can be formulated as an inverse problem, and in a Bayesian context, the goal is to sample a clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Darshan Thaker , Abhishek Goyal , René Vidal

Single-image haze-removal is challenging due to limited information contained in one single image. Previous solutions largely rely on handcrafted priors to compensate for this deficiency. Recent convolutional neural network (CNN) models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Ziang Cheng , Shaodi You , Viorela Ila , Hongdong Li

Video dehazing aims to recover haze-free frames with high visibility and contrast. This paper presents a novel framework to effectively explore the physical haze priors and aggregate temporal information. Specifically, we design a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jiaqi Xu , Xiaowei Hu , Lei Zhu , Qi Dou , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao , Pheng-Ann Heng

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

The inherent generative power of denoising diffusion models makes them well-suited for image restoration tasks where the objective is to find the optimal high-quality image within the generative space that closely resembles the input image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zheng Ding , Xuaner Zhang , Zhuowen Tu , Zhihao Xia

Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiangtong Tan , Feng Zhao