Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS
Volume 29, Issue 8, Pages 3828-3838Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2017.2741975
Keywords
Dehazing; haze removal; visibility restoration
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- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [MOST 106-2221-E-155-066, MOST 106-2218-E-155-007, MOST 105-2218-E-155-003, MOST 105-2218-E-155-010, MOST 106-2221-E-027-017-MY3, MOST 106-2221-E-027-126-MY2, MOST 105-2221-E-027-113, MOST 105-2923-E-027-001-MY3, MOST 103-2923-E-002-011-MY3]
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Restoration of visibility in hazy images is the first relevant step of information analysis in many outdoor computer vision applications. To this aim, the restored image must feature clear visibility with sufficient brightness and visible edges, while avoiding the production of noticeable artifacts. In this paper, we propose a haze removal approach based on the radial basis function (RBF) through artificial neural networks dedicated to effectively removing haze formation while retaining not only the visible edges but also the brightness of restored images. Unlike traditional haze-removal methods that consist of single atmospheric veils, the multiatmospheric veil is generated and then dynamically learned by the neurons of the proposed RBF networks according to the scene complexity. Through this process, more visible edges are retained in the restored images. Subsequently, the activation function during the testing process is employed to represent the brightness of the restored image. We compare the proposed method with the other state-of-the-art haze-removal methods and report experimental results in terms of qualitative and quantitative evaluations for benchmark color images captured in typical hazy weather conditions. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is able to produce brighter and more vivid haze-free images with more visible edges than can the other state-of-the-art methods.
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