Title
Haze Removal By Modeling The Scattering Properties Of The Medium
Abstract
This letter proposes a simple and effective method to remove haze from a single input foggy or underwater image. The algorithm is originated from the physically valid description of the transmission of the scattering light during the volumetric scattering medium, interpreting the formation of the haze with the layered transmission model. We establish the explicit expression of the transmittance with respect to statistics of the back scattered light in front of the scene. The parameters for the evaluation of the transmittance can be estimated by the second order statistics of the back scattered light both with and without the scene. Since the transmittance map is evaluated for each RGB channel respectively, the color recovery by the proposed method is wavelength dependent and physically valid. Experimental results on both terrestrial and underwater images are given, which show the effectiveness and advantage of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/LSP.2020.3005045
IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Backscatter, haze removal, image recovery
Journal
27
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1070-9908
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rui Wang100.34
Guoyu Wang293.11
Tingting Ji300.68