"Day/night unconstrained image dehazing" by Sanchayan Santra and Bhabatosh Chanda
 

Day/night unconstrained image dehazing

Document Type

Conference Article

Publication Title

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Abstract

Images taken under fog or haze have their visibility reduced due to the existence of aerosols in the atmosphere. Image dehazing methods try to recover haze-free versions of these images by removing the effect of haze. Methods proposed till now are exclusively for daytime scene images or for night-time scene. The method we propose here can dehaze an image independent of whether it was captured during the day or night. To achieve this we have relaxed the image formation model to take into account spatially varying atmospheric light that may be present in night-time images. We estimate the contributing airlights and also the patches that are affected by it. We then remove the effect of airlight to obtain haze-free image. We demonstrate the results obtained by using our method on day and night-time images. We have compared out results with that of recently reported methods and the results show the effectiveness of our method.

First Page

1406

Last Page

1411

DOI

10.1109/ICPR.2016.7899834

Publication Date

1-1-2016

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