FUSION-BASED AND FLICKER-FREE DEFOGGING

Abstract

Degradation in visibility is often introduced to images captured in poor weather conditions, such as fog or haze. In this paper, a fusion-based transmission estimation method is introduced to adaptively combine two different transmission models. Specifically, the new fusion weighting scheme and the atmospheric light computed from the Gaussian-based dark channel method improves the estimation of the locations of the light sources. To reduce the flickering effect introduced during the process of frame-based dehazing, a flicker-free module is formulated to alleviate the impacts. The system assessments show this approach is capable of superior defogging and dehazing performance, compared to the state-of-the-art methods, both quantitatively and qualitatively