SINGLE IMAGE BASED HAZE REMOVAL METHOD

In this paper, we propose a novel method to estimate the haze-free image based on the improved optical model. In this work, we calculate the objective transmission and distance transmission to estimate the haze-free image by the segmented hazy image. Firstly, the color clustering method is used to segment the image into several regions by color similarity for getting the objective transmission. Then, the graph-based segmentation is used to calculate the depth information for getting the distance transmission. Next, the atmosphere light is estimated according to the distance transmission Finally, the improved optical model is used to estimate the haze-free image. The experimental results show that our method is more effective and able to get better results than other single image based methods.