Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 61, Issue 18, 1837007(2024)

Two-Branch Feature Fusion Image Dehazing Algorithm Under Brightness Constraint

Jinqing He1, Xiucheng Dong1,2、*, Xianming Xiang1, Hongda Guo1, and Yaling Ju1
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  • 1School of Electrical Engineering and Electronic Information, Xihua University, Chengdu 610039, Sichuan, China
  • 2School of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, Jinjiang College Sichuan University, Meishan 620860, Sichuan, China
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    In order to solve the problem of haze weather affecting image quality, this paper proposed a two-branch feature fusion image dehazing algorithm. Firstly, the data fitting branch of dense residual form increased the network depth and extracted high-frequency detail features. The knowledge transfer branch of U-Net form provided supplemental knowledge to the finite data. Then the multi-scale fusion module adaptively fused feature of two branches to recover high-quality dehazing images. In addition, brightness constraint was introduced to combined loss function to assign higher weights to the dense haze region. Finally, both synthetic and real-world datasets were used for testing and compared with existing dehazing algorithms such as FFA and GCANet. Experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm had good dehazing effect both on synthetic and real hazy images. And compared with other comparison algorithms, the average value of peak signal to noise ratio on four nonhomogeneous haze datasets was increased by 1.55 dB?10.30 dB and the average value of structural similarity was increased by 0.0312?0.2440.

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    Jinqing He, Xiucheng Dong, Xianming Xiang, Hongda Guo, Yaling Ju. Two-Branch Feature Fusion Image Dehazing Algorithm Under Brightness Constraint[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2024, 61(18): 1837007

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    Paper Information

    Category: Digital Image Processing

    Received: Jan. 2, 2024

    Accepted: Feb. 5, 2024

    Published Online: Sep. 14, 2024

    The Author Email: Xiucheng Dong (dxc136@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP240436

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP240436

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