Title
Evolving Fusion-Based Visibility Restoration Model for Hazy Remote Sensing Images Using Dynamic Differential Evolution
Abstract
Remote sensing images taken during poor environmental conditions are degraded by the scattering of atmospheric particles, which affects the performance of many imaging systems. Hence, an efficient visibility restoration model is required to remove haze from distorted images. However, the design of visibility restoration models is an ill-posed problem as the physical information, such as depth information and attenuation model, is usually unknown. The physical parameters computed using existing models, such as dark channel prior and gradient channel prior, are not accurate, especially for images with large haze gradients. Therefore, in this article, an evolving visibility restoration model is proposed for remote sensing images. Initially, the fusion-based transmission map is computed from the foreground and sky regions. The transmission map is further improved by designing a hybrid constraint-based variational model. Finally, a dynamic differential evolution is utilized to optimize the control parameters of the proposed model. The proposed model is validated on 50 synthetic benchmarks and 50 real-life remote sensing images. For comparative analysis, ten well-known restoration models are also considered. The comparative analysis demonstrates that the proposed model outperforms the existing restoration models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TGRS.2022.3155765
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Attenuation model,dark channel prior (DCP),depth information,dynamic differential evolution,evolving model,fusion-based transmission map,gradient channel prior,haze,large haze gradient,remote sensing images,variational model,visibility restoration
Journal
60
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0196-2892
0
0.34
References 
Authors
43
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dilbag Singh16715.16
Manjit Kaur2238.41
Mohamed Yaseen Jabarulla300.34
P. Vijay Kumar41708158.95
Heung-No Lee500.34