NH-HAZE: An Image Dehazing Benchmark with Non-Homogeneous Hazy and Haze-Free Images


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2020

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Image dehazing is an ill-posed problem that has been extensively studied in the recent years. The objective performance evaluation of the dehazing methods is one of the major obstacles due to the lacking of a reference dataset. While the synthetic datasets have shown important limitations, the few realistic datasets introduced recently assume homogeneous haze over the entire scene. Since in many real cases haze is not uniformly distributed we introduce NH-HAZE, a non-homogeneous realistic dataset with pairs of real hazy and corresponding haze-free images. This is the first nonhomogeneous image dehazing dataset and contains 55 outdoor scenes. The non-homogeneous haze has been introduced in the scene using a professional haze generator that imitates the real conditions of hazy scenes. Additionally, this work presents an objective assessment of several state- of-the-art single image dehazing methods that were evaluated using NH-HAZE dataset. © 2020 IEEE.

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2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)

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1798 - 1805

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2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW 2020) (virtual)

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Due to the Corona virus (COVID-19) the conference was conducted virtually.

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