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Inclement weather existence of fog, haze, and dust generally degrades the visibility of outdoor images. Bad visibility may cause failure in computer vision applications. Existing dehazing methods cannot work well on dust haze images. Such images appear yellowish due to the absorption of blue light by dust particles. In order to solve this problem, we propose an optical compensation method (OCM), which uses histogram matching to change the RGB color channel. In this method, take the red channel as a reference curve and then fit the color curves of the blue and green channels close to the red curve, thereby dust haze images are transformed into haze images. Furthermore, we develop a novel single image dehazing method based on Gaussian adaptive transmission (GAT). GAT uses a Gaussian function with a linear coefficient constraint to optimize the transmission, which can prevent halo artifacts near edges of depth discontinuity and obtaining a more accurate estimate of the transmission, especially in bright areas (e.g., sky). The experimental results show that OCM can eliminate the color cast of dust haze images, and GAT can enhance the visibility of dust haze images effectively.
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This study has been supported by The National Natural Science Foundation of China (61561030).
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Yang, Y., Zhang, C., Liu, L. et al. Visibility restoration of single image captured in dust and haze weather conditions. Multidim Syst Sign Process 31, 619–633 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11045-019-00678-z
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