TY - GEN
T1 - Airlight estimation based on distant region segmentation
AU - Wang, Yi
AU - Chau, Lap Pui
AU - Ma, Xiaoxi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - Natural images suffer from bad weather conditions, such as haze or fog, which decreases the contrast and degrades the color of observed images. Haze removal aims to recover haze-free images by the image degradation model. The global atmospheric light (airlight) estimation is an essential step for haze removal. With an assumption that the airlight exists in the infinite distance, we propose a novel learning-based framework for airlight estimation. Our framework is mainly composed of two steps: i) the airlight is initially determined by distant region segmentation based on U-Net; ii) the final airlight can be obtained by the weighted sum of the pixel values inside the distant region. Owing to lack of ground-truth airlight, we present a method to synthesize outdoor training examples. The proposed framework not only perform well on synthetic images but also has a good generalization ability for natural images. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed approach can achieve more accurate estimate of airlight than state-of-the-art methods on both synthetic and natural images.
AB - Natural images suffer from bad weather conditions, such as haze or fog, which decreases the contrast and degrades the color of observed images. Haze removal aims to recover haze-free images by the image degradation model. The global atmospheric light (airlight) estimation is an essential step for haze removal. With an assumption that the airlight exists in the infinite distance, we propose a novel learning-based framework for airlight estimation. Our framework is mainly composed of two steps: i) the airlight is initially determined by distant region segmentation based on U-Net; ii) the final airlight can be obtained by the weighted sum of the pixel values inside the distant region. Owing to lack of ground-truth airlight, we present a method to synthesize outdoor training examples. The proposed framework not only perform well on synthetic images but also has a good generalization ability for natural images. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed approach can achieve more accurate estimate of airlight than state-of-the-art methods on both synthetic and natural images.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85066781804&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISCAS.2019.8702730
DO - 10.1109/ISCAS.2019.8702730
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85066781804
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
BT - 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2019 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2019
Y2 - 26 May 2019 through 29 May 2019
ER -