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Main Authors: Chen, Jiuchen, Yan, Xinyu, Xu, Qizhi, Li, Kaiqi
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09621
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author Chen, Jiuchen
Yan, Xinyu
Xu, Qizhi
Li, Kaiqi
author_facet Chen, Jiuchen
Yan, Xinyu
Xu, Qizhi
Li, Kaiqi
contents Global contextual information and local detail features are essential for haze removal tasks. Deep learning models perform well on small, low-resolution images, but they encounter difficulties with large, high-resolution ones due to GPU memory limitations. As a compromise, they often resort to image slicing or downsampling. The former diminishes global information, while the latter discards high-frequency details. To address these challenges, we propose DehazeXL, a haze removal method that effectively balances global context and local feature extraction, enabling end-to-end modeling of large images on mainstream GPU hardware. Additionally, to evaluate the efficiency of global context utilization in haze removal performance, we design a visual attribution method tailored to the characteristics of haze removal tasks. Finally, recognizing the lack of benchmark datasets for haze removal in large images, we have developed an ultra-high-resolution haze removal dataset (8KDehaze) to support model training and testing. It includes 10000 pairs of clear and hazy remote sensing images, each sized at 8192 $\times$ 8192 pixels. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DehazeXL can infer images up to 10240 $\times$ 10240 pixels with only 21 GB of memory, achieving state-of-the-art results among all evaluated methods. The source code and experimental dataset are available at https://github.com/CastleChen339/DehazeXL.
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spellingShingle Tokenize Image Patches: Global Context Fusion for Effective Haze Removal in Large Images
Chen, Jiuchen
Yan, Xinyu
Xu, Qizhi
Li, Kaiqi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Global contextual information and local detail features are essential for haze removal tasks. Deep learning models perform well on small, low-resolution images, but they encounter difficulties with large, high-resolution ones due to GPU memory limitations. As a compromise, they often resort to image slicing or downsampling. The former diminishes global information, while the latter discards high-frequency details. To address these challenges, we propose DehazeXL, a haze removal method that effectively balances global context and local feature extraction, enabling end-to-end modeling of large images on mainstream GPU hardware. Additionally, to evaluate the efficiency of global context utilization in haze removal performance, we design a visual attribution method tailored to the characteristics of haze removal tasks. Finally, recognizing the lack of benchmark datasets for haze removal in large images, we have developed an ultra-high-resolution haze removal dataset (8KDehaze) to support model training and testing. It includes 10000 pairs of clear and hazy remote sensing images, each sized at 8192 $\times$ 8192 pixels. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DehazeXL can infer images up to 10240 $\times$ 10240 pixels with only 21 GB of memory, achieving state-of-the-art results among all evaluated methods. The source code and experimental dataset are available at https://github.com/CastleChen339/DehazeXL.
title Tokenize Image Patches: Global Context Fusion for Effective Haze Removal in Large Images
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09621