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http://dx.doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2018.10.022

A Novel Image Dehazing Algorithm Based on Dual-tree Complex Wavelet Transform  

Huang, Changxin (School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sichuan University)
Li, Wei (School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sichuan University)
Han, Songchen (School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sichuan University)
Liang, Binbin (School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sichuan University)
Cheng, Peng (School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sichuan University)
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KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS) / v.12, no.10, 2018 , pp. 5039-5055 More about this Journal
Abstract
The quality of natural outdoor images captured by visible camera sensors is usually degraded by the haze present in the atmosphere. In this paper, a fast image dehazing method based on visible image and near-infrared fusion is proposed. In the proposed method, a visible and a near-infrared (NIR) image of the same scene is fused based on the dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DT-CWT) to generate a dehazed color image. The color of the fusion image is regulated through haze concentration estimated by dark channel prior (DCP). The experiment results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the conventional dehazing methods and effectively solves the color distortion problem in the dehazing process.
Keywords
Image dehazing; near-infrared image; image fusion; dark channel prior; guided image filtering;
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