Recent Advances in Image Dehazing

Images captured in hazy or foggy weather conditions can be seriously degraded by scattering of atmospheric particles,which reduces the contrast,changes the color,and makes the object features difficult to identify by human vision and by some outdoor computer vision systems.Therefore image dehazing i...

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Published in:IEEE/CAA journal of automatica sinica 2017-07, Vol.4 (3), p.410-436
Main Authors: Wang, Wencheng, Yuan, Xiaohui
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Dynamic range
Heuristic algorithms
Histograms
Image color analysis
Image enhancement
Lighting
Visual effects
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Summary:Images captured in hazy or foggy weather conditions can be seriously degraded by scattering of atmospheric particles,which reduces the contrast,changes the color,and makes the object features difficult to identify by human vision and by some outdoor computer vision systems.Therefore image dehazing is an important issue and has been widely researched in the field of computer vision.The role of image dehazing is to remove the influence of weather factors in order to improve the visual effects of the image and provide benefit to post-processing.This paper reviews the main techniques of image dehazing that have been developed over the past decade.Firstly,we innovatively divide a number of approaches into three categories:image enhancement based methods,image fusion based methods and image restoration based methods.All methods are analyzed and corresponding sub-categories are introduced according to principles and characteristics.Various quality evaluation methods are then described,sorted and discussed in detail.Finally,research progress is summarized and future research directions are suggested.
ISSN:2329-9266
2329-9274
DOI:10.1109/JAS.2017.7510532