Single Image Dehazing Based on Combining Dark Channel Prior and Scene Radiance Constraint

Images captured in foggy or hazy weather conditions often suffer from poor visibility. The dark channel prior method has well solved the single image dehazing problem in nature, but it is invalid when the scene objects are inherently similar to the atmospheric light and no shadow is cast on them. We propose an efficient regularization method by adding a scene radiance constraint and combing the dark channel prior to remove hazes from a single input image. The experiments show that this improved algorithm can deal with various levels of foggy weather conditions, as well as greatly enhance the image's visibility and details. In addition, the recovered haze-free image has little or no halo artifacts.