Advancements in Remote Sensing Image Dehazing: Introducing URA-Net with Multi-Scale Dense Feature Fusion Clusters and Gated Jump Connection

The degradation of optical remote sensing images due to atmospheric haze poses a significant obstacle,profoundly impeding their effective utilization across various domains.Dehazing methodologies have emerged as pivotal components of image preprocessing,fostering an improvement in the quality of remote sensing imagery.This enhancement renders remote sensing data more indispensable,thereby enhancing the accuracy of target iden-tification.Conventional defogging techniques based on simplistic atmospheric degradation models have proven inadequate for mitigating non-uniform haze within remotely sensed images.In response to this challenge,a novel UNet Residual Attention Network(URA-Net)is proposed.This paradigmatic approach materializes as an end-to-end convolutional neural network distinguished by its utilization of multi-scale dense feature fusion clusters and gated jump connections.The essence of our methodology lies in local feature fusion within dense residual clusters,enabling the extraction of pertinent features from both preceding and current local data,depending on contextual demands.The intelligently orchestrated gated structures facilitate the propagation of these features to the decoder,resulting in superior outcomes in haze removal.Empirical validation through a plethora of experiments substantiates the efficacy of URA-Net,demonstrating its superior performance compared to existing methods when applied to established datasets for remote sensing image defogging.On the RICE-1 dataset,URA-Net achieves a Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio(PSNR)of 29.07 dB,surpassing the Dark Channel Prior(DCP)by 11.17 dB,the All-in-One Network for Dehazing(AOD)by 7.82 dB,the Optimal Transmission Map and Adaptive Atmospheric Light For Dehazing(OTM-AAL)by 5.37 dB,the Unsupervised Single Image Dehazing(USID)by 8.0 dB,and the Superpixel-based Remote Sensing Image Dehazing(SRD)by 8.5 dB.Particularly noteworthy,on the SateHaze1k dataset,URA-Net attains preeminence in overall performance,yielding defogged images characterized by consistent visual quality.This underscores the contribution of the research to the advancement of remote sensing technology,providing a robust and efficient solution for alleviating the adverse effects of haze on image quality.

Image Dehazing with Hybrid λ2-λ0 Penalty Mode

Due to the presence of turbid media, such as microdust and water vapor in the environment, outdoor pictures taken under hazy weather circumstances are typically degraded. To enhance the quality of such images, this work proposes a new hybrid λ2-λ0 penalty model for image dehazing. This model performs a weighted fusion of two distinct transmission maps, generated by imposing λ2 and λ0 norm penalties on the approximate regression coefficients of the transmission map. This approach effectively balances the sparsity and smoothness associated with the λ0 and λ2 norms, thereby optimizing the transmittance map. Specifically, when the λ2 norm is penalized in the model, an updated guided image is obtained after implementing λ0 penalty. The resulting optimization problem is effectively solved using the least square method and the alternating direction algorithm. The dehazing framework combines the advantages of λ2 and λ0 norms, enhancing sparse and smoothness, resulting in higher quality images with clearer details and preserved edges.

小波DehazeFormer网络的道路交通图像去雾

针对道路交通雾图像对比度低、细节丢失、模糊和失真的问题,提出了一种小波DehazeFormer模型的道路交通图像去雾方法。为提升模型去雾能力,构建了编解码结构的小波DehazeFormer网络,编码器以DehazeFormer与选择性核特征融合模块(Selective kernel feature fusion,SKFF)级联作为骨干网络的基本单元,编码部分由三级这样的基本单元构成,以融合图像的原始信息和去雾后的信息,更好地捕获雾图中关键特征;中间特征层采用局部残差结构,并加入卷积注意力机制(Convolutional Block Attention Module,CBAM),对不同级别的特征赋予不同权重,同时融入内容引导注意力混合方案(Content-guided Attention based Mixup Fusion Scheme,CGAFusion),通过学习空间权重来调整特征;解码部分由DehazeFormer和SKFF构成,采用逐点卷积,在保证网络性能同时,减少网络的参数量;跳跃连接引入小波变换,对不同尺度的特征图进行小波分析,获取不同尺度的高、低频特征,放大交通雾图的细节使得复原图像保留纹理;最后,将原始图像和经解码后输出的特征图融合,获取更多的细节信息。实验结果表明,本文方法相比于基线DehazeFormer网络,其PSNR指标在公开数据集中提升1.32以上,在合成数据集中提升0.56,SSIM指标提升了0.015以上,MSE值有较大幅度降低,下降了23.15以上;Entropy指标提升0.06以上。本文去雾算法对提升交通雾图像的对比度、降低雾图模糊和失真及细节丢失等方面均表现出优良的性能,有助于后续道路交通的智能视觉监控与管理。

基于AOD-Net的雾天高速公路能见度动态检测方法

单纯以图像帧差特征为主的公路能见度动态检测方法,缺乏足够多样且具有代表性的真实数据集,使得能见度的智能检测精度下降,为此,利用生成对抗网络的博弈迭代计算优势,设计一种基于AOD-Net(An All-in-One Network)的雾天高速公路能见度动态检测。首先,采用生成对抗网络中的带雾图像生成算法,主要是判断生成的带雾图像的真实程度,旨在使判别器准确地区分真实图像和生成的图像。然后,捕获不同尺度下的特征,从而更准确地估计雾霾参数,利用AOD-Net完成雾霾动态识别与能见度检测。最后,构建团雾分级预警模型,以实现团雾智能预警。通过对比实验证明,所提检测方法可以实现对雾天高速公路能见度动态高精度检测,检测结果与实际能见度偏差不超过5m,具备较高的应用价值。

基于改进AOD-Net的图像去雾算法

为了更好解决图像去雾后颜色失真、去雾不彻底和耗时等问题,提出了一种基于改进AOD-Net的图像去雾算法。首先,在原有的卷积模块中引入残差连接,并保留了第二个特征融合层第一层的特征信息,以增强网络的特征提取能力。其次,在第三个特征融合层后引入注意力模块,强化雾图中的关键特征信息,抑制无关背景干扰。最后,采用新的复合损失函数进行训练。实验结果表明,改进算法在公共数据集上的峰值信噪比提高了3.8 dB,结构相似性达到了93.6%。相较于其他去雾算法,该算法在去雾精度和处理效率方面均表现出色。

改进AOD-Net的道路交通图像去雾算法

针对现有图像去雾算法在处理道路交通图像时无法同时兼顾去雾效果和实时性的问题,本文以快速一体化网络去雾算法(AOD-Net)为基础进行改进.首先,在AOD-Net中添加SE通道注意力,以自适应的方式分配通道权重,关注重要特征;其次,引入金字塔池化模块,扩大网络的感受野,并融合不同尺度特征,更好地捕捉图像信息;最后,使用复合损失函数同时关注图像像素信息和结构纹理信息.实验结果表明,改进后的AOD-Net算法对道路交通图像去雾后的峰值信噪比提升了2.52 dB,结构相似度达到了91.2%,算法复杂度和去雾耗时略微增加,但仍满足实时要求.

CLGA Net:Cross Layer Gated Attention Network for Image Dehazing

In this paper,we propose an end-to-end cross-layer gated attention network(CLGA-Net)to directly restore fog-free images.Compared with the previous dehazing network,the dehazing model presented in this paper uses the smooth cavity convolution and local residual module as the feature extractor,combined with the channel attention mechanism,to better extract the restored features.A large amount of experimental data proves that the defogging model proposed in this paper is superior to previous defogging technologies in terms of structure similarity index(SSIM),peak signal to noise ratio(PSNR)and subjective visual quality.In order to improve the efficiency of decoding and encoding,we also describe a fusion residualmodule and conduct ablation experiments,which prove that the fusion residual is suitable for the dehazing problem.Therefore,we use fusion residual as a fixed module for encoding and decoding.In addition,we found that the traditional defogging model based on the U-net network may cause some information losses in space.We have achieved effective maintenance of low-level feature information through the cross-layer gating structure that better takes into account global and subtle features.We also present the application of our CLGA-Net in challenging scenarios where the best results in both quantity and quality can be obtained.Experimental results indicate that the present cross-layer gating module can be widely used in the same type of network.

Atrous Convolution-Based Residual Deep CNN for Image Dehazing with Spider Monkey-Particle Swarm Optimization

Image dehazing is a rapidly progressing research concept to enhance image contrast and resolution in computer vision applications.Owing to severe air dispersion,fog,and haze over the environment,hazy images pose specific challenges during information retrieval.With the advances in the learning theory,most of the learning-based techniques,in particular,deep neural networks are used for single-image dehazing.The existing approaches are extremely computationally complex,and the dehazed images are suffered from color distortion caused by the over-saturation and pseudo-shadow phenomenon.However,the slow convergence rate during training and haze residual is the two demerits in the conventional image dehazing networks.This article proposes a new architecture“Atrous Convolution-based Residual Deep Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)”method with hybrid Spider Monkey-Particle Swarm Optimization for image dehazing.The large receptive field of atrous convolution extracts the global contextual information.The swarm based hybrid optimization is designed for tuning the neural network parameters during training.The experiments over the standard synthetic dataset images used in the proposed network recover clear output images free from distortion and halo effects.It is observed from the statistical analysis that Mean Square Error(MSE)decreases from 74.42 to 62.03 and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio(PSNR)increases from 22.53 to 28.82.The proposed method with hybrid optimization algorithm demonstrates a superior convergence rate and is a more robust than the current state-of-the-art techniques.

改进AOD-Net的轻量级去雾算法

为了提高雾天条件下交通目标识别的准确率并降低交通事故风险,文章对自动驾驶系统中用于雾天环境的去雾算法进行了研究与改进。主要工作如下:针对车载摄像头受雾气影响导致成像质量下降,从而影响检测算法精度的问题,提出了一种基于AOD-Net的改进去雾算法。首先,在AOD-Net架构中集成了金字塔池化模块(Pyramid Pooling Module,PPM),旨在网络训练阶段更好地整合特征信息,减少特征提取过程中上下文信息的损失,从而实现更好的去雾效果。其次,为解决AOD-Net去雾后图像亮度不足的问题,引入了轻量级的Zero-DCE++图像增强算法。在合成雾天数据集和真实雾天数据集上进行了对比实验,并使用多个评价指标对算法进行了评估,验证了改进方法的有效性。

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 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.

STRASS Dehazing:Spatio-Temporal Retinex-Inspired Dehazing by an Averaging of Stochastic Samples

In this paper,we propose a neoteric and high-efficiency single image dehazing algorithm via contrast enhancement which is called STRASS(Spatio-Temporal Retinex-Inspired by an Averaging of Stochastic Samples)dehazing,it is realized by constructing an efficient high-pass filter to process haze images and taking the influence of human vision system into account in image dehazing principles.The novel high-pass filter works by getting each pixel using RSR and computes the average of the samples.Then the low-pass filter resulting from the minimum envelope in STRESS framework has been replaced by the average of the samples.The final dehazed image is yielded after iterations of the high-pass filter.STRASS can be run directly without any machine learning.Extensive experimental results on datasets prove that STRASS surpass the state-of-the-arts.Image dehazing can be applied in the field of printing and packaging,our method is of great significance for image pre-processing before printing.

基于改进AOD-Net网络模型的车载图像去雾方法

基于现有去雾算法存在去雾效果不佳和去雾效率低等问题,提出了一种改进AOD-Net网络模型。首先对输入图像进行随机噪声添加,提高图像模型去雾鲁棒性。接着对不同尺度的卷积核进行多线程处理,同时将图像中的特征信息提取,然后利用注意力机制进行权重分配,采集图像中的纹理信息和细腻化特征信息,提升图像的质量。最后对提取的特征信息利用AOD-Net模型的前两层卷积进行二次特征提取,估计出联合参数,输出去雾后的图像。实验结果表明,采用本算法得到的第一组和第二组图像峰值信噪比分别为20.05和16.92,结构相似性分别为0.85和0.83,IE熵值分别为7.48和7.75,各项数值均有提升,图像去雾效果更好,证明了本算法的有效性。

A Novel Dark-Channel Dehazing Algorithm Based on Adaptive-Filter Enhanced SSR Theory

Low visibility in foggy days results in less contrasted and blurred images with color distortion which adversely affects and leads to the sub-optimal performances in image and video monitoring systems. The causes of foggy image degradation were explained in detail and the approaches of image enhancement and image restoration for defogging were introduced. The study proposed an enhanced and advanced form of the improved Retinex theory-based dehazing algorithm. The proposed algorithm achieved novel in the manner in which the dark channel prior was efficiently combined with the dark-channel prior into a single dehazing framework. The proposed approach performed the first stage in dehazing within the dark channel domain through implementation with an adaptive filter. This novel approach allowed for the dark channel features to be efficiently refined and boosted, a scheme, which according to the obtained results, significantly improved dehazing results in later stages. Experimental results showed that this approach did little to trade-off dehazing speed for efficiency. This makes the proposed algorithm a strong candidate for real-time systems due to its capability to realize efficient dehazing at considerably rapid speeds. Finally, experimental results were provided to validate the superior performance and efficiency of the proposed dehazing algorithm.

Image Dehazing by Incorporating Markov Random Field with Dark Channel Prior

As one of the most simple and effective single image dehazing methods, the dark channel prior(DCP) algorithm has been widely applied. However, the algorithm does not work for pixels similar to airlight(e.g., snowy ground or a white wall), resulting in underestimation of the transmittance of some local scenes. To address that problem, we propose an image dehazing method by incorporating Markov random field(MRF) with the DCP. The DCP explicitly represents the input image observation in the MRF model obtained by the transmittance map. The key idea is that the sparsely distributed wrongly estimated transmittance can be corrected by properly characterizing the spatial dependencies between the neighboring pixels of the transmittances that are well estimated and those that are wrongly estimated. To that purpose, the energy function of the MRF model is designed. The estimation of the initial transmittance map is pixel-based using the DCP, and the segmentation on the transmittance map is employed to separate the foreground and background, thereby avoiding the block effect and artifacts at the depth discontinuity. Given the limited number of labels obtained by clustering, the smoothing term in the MRF model can properly smooth the transmittance map without an extra refinement filter. Experimental results obtained by using terrestrial and underwater images are given.

Multiscale Image Dehazing and Restoration:An Application for Visual Surveillance

The captured outdoor images and videos may appear blurred due to haze,fog,and bad weather conditions.Water droplets or dust particles in the atmosphere cause the light to scatter,resulting in very limited scene discernibility and deterioration in the quality of the image captured.Currently,image dehazing has gainedmuch popularity because of its usability in a wide variety of applications.Various algorithms have been proposed to solve this ill-posed problem.These algorithms provide quite promising results in some cases,but they include undesirable artifacts and noise in haze patches in adverse cases.Some of these techniques take unrealistic processing time for high image resolution.In this paper,to achieve real-time halo-free dehazing,fast and effective single image dehazing we propose a simple but effective image restoration technique using multiple patches.It will improve the shortcomings of DCP and improve its speed and efficiency for high-resolution images.A coarse transmissionmap is estimated by using the minimumof different size patches.Then a cascaded fast guided filter is used to refine the transmission map.We introduce an efficient scaling technique for transmission map estimation,which gives an advantage of very low-performance degradation for a highresolution image.For performance evaluation,quantitative,qualitative and computational time comparisons have been performed,which provide quiet faithful results in speed,quality,and reliability of handling bright surfaces.

A Research on Single Image Dehazing Algorithms Based on Dark Channel Prior

In the field of computer and machine vision, haze and fog lead to image degradation through various degradation mechanisms including but not limited to contrast attenuation, blurring and pixel distortions. This limits the efficiency of machine vision systems such as video surveillance, target tracking and recognition. Various single image dark channel dehazing algorithms have aimed to tackle the problem of image hazing in a fast and efficient manner. Such algorithms rely upon the dark channel prior theory towards the estimation of the atmospheric light which offers itself as a crucial parameter towards dehazing. This paper studies the state-of-the-art in this area and puts forwards their strengths and weaknesses. Through experiments the efficiencies and shortcomings of these algorithms are shared. This information is essential for researchers and developers in providing a reference for the development of applications and future of the research field.

Generative adversarial network-based atmospheric scattering model for image dehazing

This paper presents a trainable Generative Adversarial Network(GAN)-based end-to-end system for image dehazing,which is named the DehazeGAN.DehazeGAN can be used for edge computing-based applications,such as roadside monitoring.It adopts two networks:one is generator(G),and the other is discriminator(D).The G adopts the U-Net architecture,whose layers are particularly designed to incorporate the atmospheric scattering model of image dehazing.By using a reformulated atmospheric scattering model,the weights of the generator network are initialized by the coarse transmission map,and the biases are adaptively adjusted by using the previous round's trained weights.Since the details may be blurry after the fog is removed,the contrast loss is added to enhance the visibility actively.Aside from the typical GAN adversarial loss,the pixel-wise Mean Square Error(MSE)loss,the contrast loss and the dark channel loss are introduced into the generator loss function.Extensive experiments on benchmark images,the results of which are compared with those of several state-of-the-art methods,demonstrate that the proposed DehazeGAN performs better and is more effective.

Single Image Dehazing: An Analysis on Generative Adversarial Network

Haze is a very common phenomenon that degrades or reduces visibility. It causes various problems where high-quality images are required such as traffic and security monitoring. So haze removal from scenes is an immediate demand for clear vision. Recently, in addition to the conventional dehazing mechanisms, different types of deep generative adversarial networks (GAN) are applied to suppress the noise and improve the dehazing performance. But it is unclear how these algorithms would perform on hazy images acquired “in the wild” and how we could gauge the progress in the field. To bridge this gap, this presents a comprehensive study on three single image dehazing state-of-the-art GAN models, such as AOD-Net, cGAN, and DHSGAN. We have experimented using benchmark dataset consisting of both synthetic and real-world hazy images. The obtained results are evaluated both quantitatively and qualitatively. Among these techniques, the DHSGAN gives the best performance.

A single image dehazing method based on decomposition strategy

Outdoor haze has adverse impact on outdoor image quality,including contrast loss and poor visibility.In this paper,a novel dehazing algorithm based on the decomposition strategy is proposed.It combines the advantages of the two-dimensional variational mode decomposition(2DVMD)algorithm and dark channel prior.The original hazy image is adaptively decom-posed into low-frequency and high-frequency images according to the image frequency band by using the 2DVMD algorithm.The low-frequency image is dehazed by using the improved dark channel prior,and then fused with the high-frequency image.Furthermore,we optimize the atmospheric light and transmit-tance estimation method to obtain a defogging effect with richer details and stronger contrast.The proposed algorithm is com-pared with the existing advanced algorithms.Experiment results show that the proposed algorithm has better performance in comparison with the state-of-the-art algorithms.

Improved dark channel image dehazing method based on Gaussian mixture model

To solve the problem of color distortion after dehazing in the sky region by using the classical dark channel prior method to process the hazy images with large regions of sky,an improved dark channel image dehazing method based on Gaussian mixture model is proposed.Firstly,we use the Gaussian mixture model to model the hazy image,and then use the expectation maximization(EM)algorithm to optimize the parameters,so that the hazy image can be divided into the sky region and the non-sky region.Secondly,the sky region is divided into a light haze region,a medium haze region and a heavy haze region according to the different dark channel values to estimate the transmission respectively.Thirdly,the restored image is obtained by combining the atmospheric scattering model.Finally,adaptive local tone mapping for high dynamic range images is used to adjust the brightness of the restored image.The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively eliminate the color distortion in the sky region,and the restored image is clearer and has better visual effect.