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Estimation of minimum color channel using difference channel in single image Dehazing

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Single image dehazing (SID) solves the atmospheric scattering model (ATSM). The ill-defined nature of the SID makes it a challenging problem. The transmission is the prime parameter of ATSM. Hence, accurate transmission is essential for quality of SID. The existing methods of SID estimate the transmission based on priors with strong assumptions (such as dark channel prior). These methods do not recover original colors, structure and visibility due to wrong transmission under invalidity of these assumptions. Therefor, the difference channel (DCH) is proposed to estimate accurate transmission. The DCH non-linearly translates the minimum channel of hazy image into minimum channel of haze-free image, which is used to compute the value of transmission. The DCH is based on an observation that difference of maximum and minimum color channel of the hazy image is negatively correlated with depth. The proposed method is able to recover the details from hazy image in the form of structure, edges, corners, colors and visibility due to the DCH. The accuracy and robustness of the proposed method is proved by comparing the results with known dehazing methods based on qualitative and quantitative analysis using benchmark data sets.

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Raikwar, S.C., Tapaswi, S. Estimation of minimum color channel using difference channel in single image Dehazing. Multimed Tools Appl 80, 31837–31863 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-11175-6

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