Title
Mean shift-based single image dehazing with re-refined transmission map
Abstract
Bad weather (eg., fog and haze) significantly degrades the quality of outdoor images taken by camera, leading to the fact that most automatic systems, which strongly depends on the definition of the input images, fail to work normally. Thus, the improvement of the dehazing technology is highly desired. To overcome the disadvantages of traditional dark channel priorbased algorithm, we propose a more efficient dehazing algorithm combining dark channel prior and mean shift segmentation. Firstly, we take the operation of white balance on the input haze image to reduce the negative influence of color cast. Secondly, we use the mean shift segmentation algorithm to separate the sky regions from the foreground in the transmission map, which is obtained with the dark channel prior-based approach. Thirdly, we enhance the brightness of the sky regions in the transmission map independently and use guided image filtering to smooth the map. Finally, we restore the image with the re-refined transmission map. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach is better able to handle the sky regions and solve the problem of color cast compared with the typical dehazing algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/SMC.2014.6974568
SMC
Keywords
Field
DocType
bad weather,automatic systems,re-refined transmission map,outdoor images,white balance,mean shift-based single image dehazing,image segmentation,image denoising,image restoration,image filtering,dark channel priorbased algorithm,dehazing algorithms,image enhancement,dehazing technology,haze image,mean shift segmentation algorithm
Computer vision,Scale-space segmentation,Image texture,Non-local means,Computer science,Binary image,Segmentation-based object categorization,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Mean-shift,Image restoration
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1062-922X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
16
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qingsong Zhu111613.96
Jiaming Mai200.34
Zhan Song37812.58
Di Wu4636117.73
Jianjun Wang55311.84
Lei Wang6252.48