Single Maritime Image Defogging Based on Illumination Decomposition Using Texture and Structure Priors

Thuong Van Nguyen, Truong Thanh Nhat Mai, Chul Lee

Abstract: Removing fog components from maritime images is more challenging than removing them from land images because of the complicated scattering effects. In this paper, we propose a single maritime image defogging algorithm based on illumination decomposition. First, we decompose a foggy input image into glow and glow-free layers by formulating an optimization problem and then solving it effectively, where the optimization variables are updated by closed-form solutions. Then, the fog components in the glow-free layer are removed using a defogging algorithm. Finally, the natural illumination in the glow layer is recovered using a compensation scheme to obtain the final fog-free image. Experimental results on real test images demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of both subjective and objective evaluation criteria.

External IDs:doi:10.1109/access.2021.3060439