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Received 05/03/2016, Accepted 17/06/2016, Revised 16/05/2016, Published 17/06/2016

Many traditional dark channel prior based haze removal schemes often suffer from the colour distortion and generate halo artefacts in the remote scenes. To tackle these issues, the authors present an efficient scene-adaptive single image dehazing approach via opening dark channel model (ODCM). First, the authors detect the image depth information and separate it into close view and distant view. Then, an ODCM is proposed to optimise the whole atmospheric veil, in which the values of close view are regularised by a minimum channel image while the distant parts are estimated by an appropriate lower constant. Accordingly, the transmission map can be further optimised by guide filter and smoothed by domain transform filter. Finally, the haze degraded image can be well restored by the atmosphere scattering model. The extensive experiments have shown that the proposed image dehazing approach has significantly increased the perceptual visibility of the scene and achieved a better colour fidelity visually.

Inspec keywords: image restoration; image colour analysis

Other keywords: haze degraded image; domain transform filter; scene-adaptive single image dehazing; guide filter; ODCM; opening dark channel model; minimum channel image; image depth information; atmosphere scattering model; colour distortion

Subjects: Optical, image and video signal processing; Computer vision and image processing techniques

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