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Most conventional dehazing methods focus on separately estimating key parameters (e.g., the transmission map and the atmospheric light) based on the atmospheric scattering model to generate haze-free images, which may face the limitation of error accumulation. With the advance of deep learning technologies, employing deep neural networks (DNNs) to conduct haze removal becomes popular dehazing methods recently. Most DNNs-based methods automatically learn haze-free image or key parameters in the atmospheric scattering model in end-to-end manners, which heavily rely on training models on dataset. This work aims to recover haze-free images directly by DNNs without any time-consuming training process on dataset or cascading parameter estimation steps. In this paper, haze removal is achieved in Maximum-a-Posterior (MAP) framework based on an exist re-formulation of the atmospheric scattering model, which only involves one integrated variable. The proposed MAP framework is connected with DNN by two self-supervised generative networks—two deep-image-prior (DIP) networks, which are present for modeling the deep priors of the haze-free image and the integrated variable. We further investigate the statistical property of the integrated variable and propose handcrafted regularizers to better constrain the integrated variable. By iteratively updating two networks, solutions of the haze-free image and the integrated variable can be solved jointly. Experiments on both synthesized and real hazy images show that the proposed method performs competitively to state-of-the-art dehazing methods in terms of PSNR, SSIM and visual evaluations.
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This work has been partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61976041).
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Wang, H., Wang, X., Su, Z. (2023). Single Image Dehazing with Deep-Image-Prior Networks. In: Lu, H., et al. Image and Graphics . ICIG 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14357. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46311-2_7
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