DEHAZING OF COLOR IMAGE USING STOCHASTIC ENHANCEMENT

Images captured in presence of fog, haze or snow usually suffer from poor contrast and visibility. In this paper we propose a novel dehazing method to increase visibility from a single view without using any prior knowledge about the outdoor scene. The proposed method estimates a visibility map of the scene from the input image and uses stochastic iterative algorithm to remove fog and haze. The method can be applied to color and grayscale images. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms most of the state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of contrast, colorfulness and visibility.