Multi-scale boosted dehazing network with dense feature fusion

H Dong, J Pan, L Xiang, Z Hu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
H Dong, J Pan, L Xiang, Z Hu, X Zhang, F Wang, MH Yang
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and …, 2020openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper, we propose a Multi-Scale Boosted Dehazing Network with Dense Feature
Fusion based on the U-Net architecture. The proposed method is designed based on two
principles, boosting and error feedback, and we show that they are suitable for the dehazing
problem. By incorporating the Strengthen-Operate-Subtract boosting strategy in the decoder
of the proposed model, we develop a simple yet effective boosted decoder to progressively
restore the haze-free image. To address the issue of preserving spatial information in the U …
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a Multi-Scale Boosted Dehazing Network with Dense Feature Fusion based on the U-Net architecture. The proposed method is designed based on two principles, boosting and error feedback, and we show that they are suitable for the dehazing problem. By incorporating the Strengthen-Operate-Subtract boosting strategy in the decoder of the proposed model, we develop a simple yet effective boosted decoder to progressively restore the haze-free image. To address the issue of preserving spatial information in the U-Net architecture, we design a dense feature fusion module using the back-projection feedback scheme. We show that the dense feature fusion module can simultaneously remedy the missing spatial information from high-resolution features and exploit the non-adjacent features. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that the proposed model performs favorably against the state-of-the-art approaches on the benchmark datasets as well as real-world hazy images.
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