Single image dehazing using Hölder coefficient

Dehao Shang, Tingting Wang, Faming Fang

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Abstract

Restoring the true scene appearance from hazy image is a challenging task and one of a most necessary part in image processing system. As we know, the clear-day image must have higher contrast compared to the hazy image. Our main idea is that the hazy image is enhanced based on this observation to achieve dehazing objective. Firstly, we use a new metric, simple but powerful Hölder coefficient, to estimate the hazy density roughly. In order to make the estimation density map more reasonable, we apply proposed energy function to refine it. Based on the refined map, we propose a new method to estimate the atmosphere light. Secondly, three new terms, which are used to enhance image, are modeled into energy function. Solving this energy function, transmission map can be obtained. Finally, we get haze-free image by using the transmission map. Experiment results demonstrate that our algorithm has similar or better performance compared to the state-of-art algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKnowledge Science, Engineering and Management - 9th International Conference, KSEM 2016, Proceedings
EditorsFranz Lehner, Nora Fteimi
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages314-324
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783319476490
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event9th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2016 - Passau, Germany
Duration: 5 Oct 20167 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9983 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2016
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityPassau
Period5/10/167/10/16

Keywords

  • Contrast enhancement
  • Dehazing
  • Hölder coefficient

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