A Visibility Restoration Algorithm for Real-World Hazy Scenes

Abstract

With the increase in industrial production and human activities, the concentration of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) is substantially increased; due to which fog and haze occur more frequently.Limited visibility is caused by suspended particles in the air, such as fog and haze are a major problem for many applications of computer vision.The captured scenes by such computer vision systems suffer from poor visibility, low contrast, dimmed brightness, low luminance and distorted color.The detection of objects within the scene is more difficult.Therefore visibility improvement, contrast and features enhancement of images and videos captured in bad weather are also called as dehazing, is an inevitable task.