Author Affiliations
1School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui 230601, China2School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei, Anhui 230601, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Diagram of haze image reconstruction method
Fig. 2. Gradient characteristics of nature image. (a) Nature scene image; (b) gradient histogram; (c) Laplace distribution
Fig. 3. Gradient characteristics of airlight under different dense haze
Fig. 4. Airlight gradient prior. (a) Gradient histogram of airlight; (b) model of airlight gradient prior
Fig. 5. Influence of ξ for image layering
Fig. 6. Layering results for polarized airlight images under 0° channel. (a) Polarized haze image; (b) object texture layer; (c) airlight layer; (d) estimated polarized airlight image by proposed method
Fig. 7. Estimated results for polarized airlight images. (a) Polarized haze image; (b) object texture layer; (c) airlight layer; (d) estimated polarized airlight image using the proposed method
Fig. 8. Results of haze image reconstruction. (a) Haze intensity image; (b) estimated airlight image by proposed method; c) reconstructed image using the proposed method
Fig. 9. Comparison results of gray histogram and gradient histogram. (a) Haze image and reconstructed image; b) gray histogram; (c) gradient histogram
Fig. 10. Reconstructed results for haze image with different dense haze. (a) Haze image; (b) dehazing results of Schechner method; (c) dehazing results of proposed method
Fig. 11. Degree of polarization(Dop) image and its gray histogram of haze image and airlight image. (a) Haze image; (b) Dop image of haze image; (c) gray histogram of haze image; (d) estimated airlight image by proposed method; (e) Dop image of airlight image; (f) gray histogram of airlight image
Haze density | Haze image | Schechner's method | Proposed method |
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| Degree ofcontrast | Averagegradient | Degree ofcontrast | Averagegradient | Degree ofcontrast | Averagegradient | Mist haze | 8.31 | 6.49 | 15.24 | 10.83 | 23.41 | 46.57 | Middle haze | 5.35 | 3.25 | 8.32 | 5.21 | 12.63 | 27.47 | Big haze | 4.22 | 2.96 | 6.16 | 4.00 | 9.76 | 22.93 | Dense haze | 3.20 | 2.35 | 4.54 | 2.66 | 6.73 | 17.38 |
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Table 1. Objective evaluation results for different dehazing methods