Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 45, Issue 15, 1510005(2025)

Polarization-Aware Dual-Encoder Network for Image Dehazing

Jing Wu1,2, Rong Luo1,2, Feng Huang1,2、*, Zhewei Liu1,2, and Yunyi Chen1,2
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, Fujian , China
  • 2Institute of Advanced Technology Innovation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, Fujian , China
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    Figures & Tables(13)
    Overall framework of PADNet (magnified the pixel values of the polarization degree images by a factor of 10)
    Structural frameworks of the traditional U-shaped network and PADNet. (a) Structure of the U-shaped network; (b) dual-encoding structure of PADNet
    Structure diagram of dynamic large kernel convolution module
    Structure diagram of adaptive dynamic feature fusion module
    Collection scheme of IHP dataset. (a) Controllable environmental data acquisition system; (b) examples of collected data
    Visualization experiment results on the IHP dataset
    Visualization experiment results on the Cityscapes-DBF dataset are also presented
    Qualitative comparison results of dehazing effects in real outdoor scenes using different ethods
    Visualization comparison results of different methods in ablation studies, the numerical values in the lower right corner represent the quantitative results evaluated by PSNR/SSIM
    • Table 1. Quantitative comparison of PADNet and SOTA methods on the various dataset

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      Table 1. Quantitative comparison of PADNet and SOTA methods on the various dataset

      MethodIHP datasetCityscapes-DBFOutdoor real-scenario datasetParams /MMACs /G
      PSNR↑SSIM↑VI↑PSNR↑SSIM↑NIQE↓BRISQUE↓
      PADNet22.540.83790.866929.240.929512.8340.2820.5639.93
      Hazy image--0.7406--20.1022.40--
      DCP[5]14.050.47510.813917.020.700617.1441.06--
      GPLF[26]12.740.53990.857912.660.710317.2349.49--
      FFA-Net[11]19.340.78830.752717.600.821914.2138.027.17449.27
      gUNet-s[12]21.410.80820.836717.450.793313.6852.591.487.75
      Dehamer[17]20.830.81560.821922.090.901215.8044.68132.4492.76
      MixDehazenet-b[13]21.720.80680.824825.670.941614.1376.866.2588.25
      MixDehazenet-l[13]21.560.80460.828824.850.937114.0554.2912.42175.46
      MB-TaylorFormer[32]21.680.81900.815925.340.950115.3080.112.6849.72
      C2PNet[18]18.480.78870.793025.480.953514.0144.347.17720.24
      FocalNet[16]18.850.74740.850828.190.949614.2763.2015.0947.71
      DehazeFormer[15]21.000.81240.810118.460.822614.3753.822.5218.78
      UHDformer[20]20.530.79580.830522.940.907613.1740.911.2518.41
      ConvIR[19]18.510.74470.860326.600.943814.4459.5014.81201.46
      DSANet[37]20.370.82590.849323.430.922915.4774.0315.4958.74
    • Table 2. Ablation study results on multi-dimensional polarization information alignment

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      Table 2. Ablation study results on multi-dimensional polarization information alignment

      ModelPSNR /dBSSIM
      w/o DoP21.400.8226
      w/o original hazy21.340.5630
      PSI21.440.8101
      EI21.550.8183
      PADNet22.500.8379
    • Table 3. Ablation study results on dual-encoder

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      Table 3. Ablation study results on dual-encoder

      ModelPSNR /dBSSIM
      w/o C21.880.8235
      w/o T21.340.8099
      CE-CD20.810.8129
      PADNet22.500.8379
    • Table 4. Ablation study results on key modules

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      Table 4. Ablation study results on key modules

      ​​Module​​Replace modulePSNR /dBSSIM
      MAPA(Cat, Conv3D)22.130.8238
      DLKParallel 3, 5, 721.780.8257
      Cascade3, 5, 721.880.8356
      ADFFSKFusion22.350.8249
      Cat22.180.8166
      Sum21.780.8272
      PADNet22.540.8379
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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Apr. 7, 2025

    Accepted: May. 8, 2025

    Published Online: Aug. 8, 2025

    The Author Email: Feng Huang (huangf@fzu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS250848

    CSTR:32393.14.AOS250848

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