Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (11): 3419-3427.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.11.07

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Progressive image dehaze based on perceptual fusion

Chenghui QI, Dengyin ZHANG   

  1. School of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
  • Received:2022-02-24 Online:2023-10-25 Published:2023-10-31
  • Contact: Dengyin ZHANG

Abstract:

Intelligent assisted driving application scenarios require higher accuracy and real-time performance for image dehazing. This paper proposes a novel progressive dehaze network (PD-Net) based on perceptual fusion mechanism to improve the efficiency and accuracy of image dehaze. This method decomposes the task of degraded image recovery into multi-stage subtasks and uses lightweight subnetwork chunk to learn semantic information of different regions of the feature map to ensure image dehazing efficiency. On this basis, the cross-stage perception fusion module (PFM) is introduced based on the attention mechanism and guided filtering. It adaptively percepts semantic features and fuse the features in a cascading manner without losing image edges and texture details. Experimental results show that compared with the existing mainstream end-to-end dehazing models, the algorithm proposed in this paper has higher accuracy and real-time performance in processing outdoor images, with peaksignal to noise ratio (PSNR) improved by 0.93 dB compared with the best results available on the public synthetic object testing set (SOTS), which consumes only 72 ms when processing a single image.

Key words: image dehaze, attention mechanism, guided filter, perception fusion

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