Multiscale Supervision-Guided Context Aggregation Network for Single Image Dehazing

Abstract

End-to-end learning-based image dehazing methods tend to overdehaze or underdehaze in real scenes due to inefficient feature extraction and feature fusion. In this letter, we propose a multiscale supervision-guided context aggregation network (MSGCAN) based on two principles: improving feature extraction and enhancing feature mapping. To improve feature extraction, an attention-guided context aggregation (AGCA) module is adopted to merge context features extracted by several residual dense blocks (RDB). Moreover, we output these aggregated context features on each scale and form multiscale supervision to enhance feature mapping and ensure that the extracted features on each scale contain more realistic details. The experimental results show that the proposed MSGCAN performs better than other state-of-the-art dehazing methods in both synthetic and real-world scenes.