Title
A Novel Transformer-Based Attention Network for Image Dehazing
Abstract
Image dehazing is challenging due to the problem of ill-posed parameter estimation. Numerous prior-based and learning-based methods have achieved great success. However, most learning-based methods use the changes and connections between scale and depth in convolutional neural networks for feature extraction. Although the performance is greatly improved compared with the prior-based methods, the performance in extracting detailed information is inferior. In this paper, we proposed an image dehazing model built with a convolutional neural network and Transformer, called Transformer for image dehazing (TID). First, we propose a Transformer-based channel attention module (TCAM), using a spatial attention module as its supplement. These two modules form an attention module that enhances channel and spatial features. Second, we use a multiscale parallel residual network as the backbone, which can extract feature information of different scales to achieve feature fusion. We experimented on the RESIDE dataset, and then conducted extensive comparisons and ablation studies with state-of-the-art methods. Experimental results show that our proposed method effectively improves the quality of the restored image, and it is also better than the existing attention modules in performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/s22093428
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
image dehazing, Transformer, convolutional neural network
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guanlei Gao100.34
Jie Cao245.28
Chun Bao300.34
Qun Hao46516.54
Aoqi Ma500.34
Gang Li629851.27