Title
Self-Guided Image Dehazing Using Progressive Feature Fusion
Abstract
We propose an effective image dehazing algorithm which explores useful information from the input hazy image itself as the guidance for the haze removal. The proposed algorithm first uses a deep pre-dehazer to generate an intermediate result, and takes it as the reference image due to the clear structures it contains. To better explore the guidance information in the generated reference image, it then develops a progressive feature fusion module to fuse the features of the hazy image and the reference image. Finally, the image restoration module takes the fused features as input to use the guidance information for better clear image restoration. All the proposed modules are trained in an end-to-end fashion, and we show that the proposed deep pre-dehazer with progressive feature fusion module is able to help haze removal. Extensive experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs favorably against state-of-the-art methods on the widely-used dehazing benchmark datasets as well as real-world hazy images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TIP.2022.3140609
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Image dehazing,pre-dehazer,guidance information,progressive feature fusion
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1057-7149
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
27
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haoran Bai100.34
Jin-shan Pan256730.84
Xinguang Xiang301.01
Jinhui Tang45180212.18