Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 39, Issue 11, 1110002(2019)

Image Dehazing Algorithm Based on Convolutional Neural Network and Dynamic Ambient Light

Jieping Liu*, Yezhang Yang, Minyuan Chen, and Lihong Ma
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  • School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510641, China
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    To effectively estimate the transmittance of the hazy images and improve the darkness of the fog removal image, an image dehazing algorithm is proposed based on convolutional neural network and dynamic ambient light. Firstly, a transmittance estimation network is designed based on convolutional neural network. Then, an image library containing paired real hazy images and transmittance images is constructed. And randomly block sampling is performed to obtain the paired hazy patches and transmittance patches which are used as training sets for training the transmittance estimation network. After that, the trained network is used to estimate the transmittance of hazy images and then smooth the acquired transmittance. At the same time, considering the problem of uneven illumination of images, dynamic ambient light is used to replace global atmospheric light. Finally, the smooth filtered transmittance and dynamic ambient light are used to restore the images. Experimental results show that the algorithm can not only effectively restore the images, but also significantly improve the brightness and saturation of the restored images.

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    Jieping Liu, Yezhang Yang, Minyuan Chen, Lihong Ma. Image Dehazing Algorithm Based on Convolutional Neural Network and Dynamic Ambient Light[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2019, 39(11): 1110002

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: May. 31, 2019

    Accepted: Jul. 24, 2019

    Published Online: Nov. 6, 2019

    The Author Email: Liu Jieping (eeliujp@scut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS201939.1110002

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