In foggy weather, images of outdoor scene are usually characterized with poor visibility as well as faint color saturation. The degraded hazy images may have substantial negative impact on most computer vision systems...In foggy weather, images of outdoor scene are usually characterized with poor visibility as well as faint color saturation. The degraded hazy images may have substantial negative impact on most computer vision systems. Thus image haze removal is of the practical significance in engineering. This paper proposes a fast and effective single image haze removal algorithm on the basis of the physics imaging model. To extract the global atmospheric light accurately, we exploit multiple prior rules underlying hazy images, and put forward a novel measurement to judge the likelihood that a pixel is regarded as the global atmospheric light. In addition, the rough transmission map is estimated through a multiscale fusion process based on the Laplace pyramid transform, and refined by a total variation model. Experimental results demonstrate the proposed method outperforms most of the state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of the dehazing quality, and achieves a trade-off between the computational efficiency and haze removal capability.展开更多
The blurred image restoration method can dramatically highlight the image details and enhance the global contrast, which is of benefit to improvement of the visual effect during practical ap- plications. This paper is...The blurred image restoration method can dramatically highlight the image details and enhance the global contrast, which is of benefit to improvement of the visual effect during practical ap- plications. This paper is based on the dark channel prior principle and aims at the prior information absent blurred image degradation situation. A lot of improvements have been made to estimate the transmission map of blurred images. Since the dark channel prior principle can effectively restore the blurred image at the cost of a large amount of computation, the total variation （TV） and image morphology transform （specifically top-hat transform and bottom- hat transform） have been introduced into the improved method. Compared with original transmission map estimation methods, the proposed method features both simplicity and accuracy. The es- timated transmission map together with the element can restore the image. Simulation results show that this method could inhibit the ill-posed problem during image restoration, meanwhile it can greatly improve the image quality and definition.展开更多
Total variation （TV） is widely applied in image process-ing. The assumption of TV is that an image consists of piecewise constants, however, it suffers from the so-cal ed staircase effect. In order to reduce the sta...Total variation （TV） is widely applied in image process-ing. The assumption of TV is that an image consists of piecewise constants, however, it suffers from the so-cal ed staircase effect. In order to reduce the staircase effect and preserve the edges when textures of image are extracted, a new image decomposition model is proposed in this paper. The proposed model is based on the to-tal generalized variation method which involves and balances the higher order of the structure. We also derive a numerical algorithm based on a primal-dual formulation that can be effectively imple-mented. Numerical experiments show that the proposed method can achieve a better trade-off between noise removal and texture extraction, while avoiding the staircase effect efficiently.展开更多
New models for image decomposition are proposed which separate an image into a cartoon, consisting only of geometric objects, and an oscillatory component, consisting of textures or noise. The proposed models are give...New models for image decomposition are proposed which separate an image into a cartoon, consisting only of geometric objects, and an oscillatory component, consisting of textures or noise. The proposed models are given in a variational formulation with adaptive regularization norms for both the cartoon and texture parts. The adaptive behavior preserves key features such as object boundaries and textures while avoiding staircasing in what should be smooth regions. This decomposition is computed by minimizing a convex functional which depends on the two variables u and v, alternatively in each variable. Experimental results and comparisons to validate the proposed models are presented.展开更多
In order to avoid staircasing effect and preserve small scale texture information for the classical total variation regularization, a new minimization energy functional model for image decomposition is proposed. First...In order to avoid staircasing effect and preserve small scale texture information for the classical total variation regularization, a new minimization energy functional model for image decomposition is proposed. Firstly, an adaptive regularization based on the local feature of images is introduced to substitute total variational regularization. The oscillatory component containing texture and/or noise is modeled in generalized function space div （BMO）. And then, the existence and uniqueness of the minimizer for proposed model are proved. Finally, the gradient descent flow of the Euler-Lagrange equations for the new model is numerically implemented by using a finite difference method. Experiments show that the proposed model is very robust to noise, and the staircasing effect is avoided efficiently, while edges and textures are well remained.展开更多
This paper proposes a model for image restoration by combining the wavelet shrinkage and inverse scale space （ISS） method. The ISS is applied to the wavelet representation to modify the retained wavelet coefficients...This paper proposes a model for image restoration by combining the wavelet shrinkage and inverse scale space （ISS） method. The ISS is applied to the wavelet representation to modify the retained wavelet coefficients, and the coefficients smaller than the threshold are set to zero. The curvature term of the ISS can remove the edge artifacts and preserve sharp edges. For the multiscale interpretation of the ISS and the multiscale property of the wavelet representation, small details are preserved. This paper illustrates that the wavelet ISS model can be deduced from the wavelet based on a total variation minimization problem. A stopping criterion is obtained from this minimization in the sense of the Bregman distance in the wavelet domain. Numerical examples show the improvement for the image denoising with the proposed method in the sense of the signal to noise ratio and with fewer details remained in the residue.展开更多
A novel rcgularization-based approach is presented for super-resolution reconstruction in order to achieve good tradeoff between noise removal and edge preservation. The method is developed by using L1 norm as data fi...A novel rcgularization-based approach is presented for super-resolution reconstruction in order to achieve good tradeoff between noise removal and edge preservation. The method is developed by using L1 norm as data fidelity term and anisotropic fourth-order diffusion model as a regularization item to constrain the smoothness of the reconstructed images. To evaluate and prove the performance of the proposed method, series of experiments and comparisons with some existing methods including bi-cubic interpolation method and bilateral total variation method are carried out. Numerical results on synthetic data show that the PSNR improvement of the proposed method is approximately 1.0906 dB on average compared to bilateral total variation method, and the results on real videos indicate that the proposed algorithm is also effective in terms of removing visual artifacts and preserving edges in restored images.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61571241)the Industry-University-research Prospective Joint Project of Jiangsu Province(BY2014014)+2 种基金the Major Projects of Jiangsu Province University Natural Science Research(15KJA510002)the Jiangsu Province Graduate Research and Innovation Project(CXZZ130476)the Science Research Fund of NUPT(NY215169)
文摘In foggy weather, images of outdoor scene are usually characterized with poor visibility as well as faint color saturation. The degraded hazy images may have substantial negative impact on most computer vision systems. Thus image haze removal is of the practical significance in engineering. This paper proposes a fast and effective single image haze removal algorithm on the basis of the physics imaging model. To extract the global atmospheric light accurately, we exploit multiple prior rules underlying hazy images, and put forward a novel measurement to judge the likelihood that a pixel is regarded as the global atmospheric light. In addition, the rough transmission map is estimated through a multiscale fusion process based on the Laplace pyramid transform, and refined by a total variation model. Experimental results demonstrate the proposed method outperforms most of the state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of the dehazing quality, and achieves a trade-off between the computational efficiency and haze removal capability.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61301095)the Chinese University Scientific Fund(HEUCF130807)the Chinese Defense Advanced Research Program of Science and Technology(10J3.1.6)
文摘The blurred image restoration method can dramatically highlight the image details and enhance the global contrast, which is of benefit to improvement of the visual effect during practical ap- plications. This paper is based on the dark channel prior principle and aims at the prior information absent blurred image degradation situation. A lot of improvements have been made to estimate the transmission map of blurred images. Since the dark channel prior principle can effectively restore the blurred image at the cost of a large amount of computation, the total variation （TV） and image morphology transform （specifically top-hat transform and bottom- hat transform） have been introduced into the improved method. Compared with original transmission map estimation methods, the proposed method features both simplicity and accuracy. The es- timated transmission map together with the element can restore the image. Simulation results show that this method could inhibit the ill-posed problem during image restoration, meanwhile it can greatly improve the image quality and definition.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(6127129461301229)+1 种基金the Doctoral Research Fund of Henan University of Science and Technology(0900170809001751)
文摘Total variation （TV） is widely applied in image process-ing. The assumption of TV is that an image consists of piecewise constants, however, it suffers from the so-cal ed staircase effect. In order to reduce the staircase effect and preserve the edges when textures of image are extracted, a new image decomposition model is proposed in this paper. The proposed model is based on the to-tal generalized variation method which involves and balances the higher order of the structure. We also derive a numerical algorithm based on a primal-dual formulation that can be effectively imple-mented. Numerical experiments show that the proposed method can achieve a better trade-off between noise removal and texture extraction, while avoiding the staircase effect efficiently.
文摘New models for image decomposition are proposed which separate an image into a cartoon, consisting only of geometric objects, and an oscillatory component, consisting of textures or noise. The proposed models are given in a variational formulation with adaptive regularization norms for both the cartoon and texture parts. The adaptive behavior preserves key features such as object boundaries and textures while avoiding staircasing in what should be smooth regions. This decomposition is computed by minimizing a convex functional which depends on the two variables u and v, alternatively in each variable. Experimental results and comparisons to validate the proposed models are presented.
基金supported by the Science and Technology Foundation Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Committee (KJ091208)
文摘In order to avoid staircasing effect and preserve small scale texture information for the classical total variation regularization, a new minimization energy functional model for image decomposition is proposed. Firstly, an adaptive regularization based on the local feature of images is introduced to substitute total variational regularization. The oscillatory component containing texture and/or noise is modeled in generalized function space div （BMO）. And then, the existence and uniqueness of the minimizer for proposed model are proved. Finally, the gradient descent flow of the Euler-Lagrange equations for the new model is numerically implemented by using a finite difference method. Experiments show that the proposed model is very robust to noise, and the staircasing effect is avoided efficiently, while edges and textures are well remained.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61101208)
文摘This paper proposes a model for image restoration by combining the wavelet shrinkage and inverse scale space （ISS） method. The ISS is applied to the wavelet representation to modify the retained wavelet coefficients, and the coefficients smaller than the threshold are set to zero. The curvature term of the ISS can remove the edge artifacts and preserve sharp edges. For the multiscale interpretation of the ISS and the multiscale property of the wavelet representation, small details are preserved. This paper illustrates that the wavelet ISS model can be deduced from the wavelet based on a total variation minimization problem. A stopping criterion is obtained from this minimization in the sense of the Bregman distance in the wavelet domain. Numerical examples show the improvement for the image denoising with the proposed method in the sense of the signal to noise ratio and with fewer details remained in the residue.
基金Projects(60963012,61262034)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(211087)supported by the Key Project of Ministry of Education of ChinaProjects(2010GZS0052,20114BAB211020)supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province,China
文摘A novel rcgularization-based approach is presented for super-resolution reconstruction in order to achieve good tradeoff between noise removal and edge preservation. The method is developed by using L1 norm as data fidelity term and anisotropic fourth-order diffusion model as a regularization item to constrain the smoothness of the reconstructed images. To evaluate and prove the performance of the proposed method, series of experiments and comparisons with some existing methods including bi-cubic interpolation method and bilateral total variation method are carried out. Numerical results on synthetic data show that the PSNR improvement of the proposed method is approximately 1.0906 dB on average compared to bilateral total variation method, and the results on real videos indicate that the proposed algorithm is also effective in terms of removing visual artifacts and preserving edges in restored images.
