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Main Authors: Chang, Chih-Ling, Tsai, Fu-Jen, Huang, Zi-Ling, Gu, Lin, Lin, Chia-Wen
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09269
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author Chang, Chih-Ling
Tsai, Fu-Jen
Huang, Zi-Ling
Gu, Lin
Lin, Chia-Wen
author_facet Chang, Chih-Ling
Tsai, Fu-Jen
Huang, Zi-Ling
Gu, Lin
Lin, Chia-Wen
contents Image dehazing faces challenges when dealing with hazy images in real-world scenarios. A huge domain gap between synthetic and real-world haze images degrades dehazing performance in practical settings. However, collecting real-world image datasets for training dehazing models is challenging since both hazy and clean pairs must be captured under the same conditions. In this paper, we propose a Physics-guided Parametric Augmentation Network (PANet) that generates photo-realistic hazy and clean training pairs to effectively enhance real-world dehazing performance. PANet comprises a Haze-to-Parameter Mapper (HPM) to project hazy images into a parameter space and a Parameter-to-Haze Mapper (PHM) to map the resampled haze parameters back to hazy images. In the parameter space, we can pixel-wisely resample individual haze parameter maps to generate diverse hazy images with physically-explainable haze conditions unseen in the training set. Our experimental results demonstrate that PANet can augment diverse realistic hazy images to enrich existing hazy image benchmarks so as to effectively boost the performances of state-of-the-art image dehazing models.
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spellingShingle PANet: A Physics-guided Parametric Augmentation Net for Image Dehazing by Hazing
Chang, Chih-Ling
Tsai, Fu-Jen
Huang, Zi-Ling
Gu, Lin
Lin, Chia-Wen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image dehazing faces challenges when dealing with hazy images in real-world scenarios. A huge domain gap between synthetic and real-world haze images degrades dehazing performance in practical settings. However, collecting real-world image datasets for training dehazing models is challenging since both hazy and clean pairs must be captured under the same conditions. In this paper, we propose a Physics-guided Parametric Augmentation Network (PANet) that generates photo-realistic hazy and clean training pairs to effectively enhance real-world dehazing performance. PANet comprises a Haze-to-Parameter Mapper (HPM) to project hazy images into a parameter space and a Parameter-to-Haze Mapper (PHM) to map the resampled haze parameters back to hazy images. In the parameter space, we can pixel-wisely resample individual haze parameter maps to generate diverse hazy images with physically-explainable haze conditions unseen in the training set. Our experimental results demonstrate that PANet can augment diverse realistic hazy images to enrich existing hazy image benchmarks so as to effectively boost the performances of state-of-the-art image dehazing models.
title PANet: A Physics-guided Parametric Augmentation Net for Image Dehazing by Hazing
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09269