Efficient Single Image Dehazing Model Using Metaheuristics-Based Brightness Channel Prior

Kehar, Vinay; Chopra, Vinay; Singh, Bhupesh Kumar; Tiwari, Shailendra

doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5584464

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Efficient Single Image Dehazing Model Using Metaheuristics-Based Brightness Channel Prior

Vinay Kehar,¹Vinay Chopra,²Bhupesh Kumar Singh,³and Shailendra Tiwari⁴

Academic Editor: Hassène Gritli

Received23 Feb 2021

Revised28 Mar 2021

Accepted23 Apr 2021

Published08 May 2021

Abstract

Haze degrades the spatial and spectral information of outdoor images. It may reduce the performance of the existing imaging models. Therefore, various visibility restoration models approaches have been designed to restore haze from still images. But restoring the haze is an open area of research. Although the existing approaches perform significantly better, they are not so effective against a large haze gradient. Also, the effect of hyperparameters tuning issue is also ignored. Therefore, a brightness channel prior (BCP) based dehazing model is proposed. The gradient filter is utilized to improve the transmission map computed using the gradient filter. Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm is also used to optimize the initial parameters of the BCP approach. The comparative analysis shows that BCP performs effectively across a wide range of haze degradation levels without causing any visible artifacts.

1. Introduction

Images captured in poor environmental conditions, such as haze, fog, and smoggy, suffer from poor visibility issues [1, 2]. The haze attenuates the scene radiance with correspondence to an object’s distance from the camera [3, 4]. The haze imaging model is defined as a linear per-pixel consolidation of an original scene radiance and an airlight [5, 6].

Various multiple-images based haze restoration approaches have been implemented [7]. These approaches require physical characteristics of input images in prior [8–10]. But in real life, no physical attributes of input images are available in prior [11, 12].

Many techniques have been designed in the literature to remove haze from still images. Oakley and Satherley [13] designed a physical model to restore weather degraded images. The depth map and atmospheric veil were estimated to remove the visibility degradation from weather degraded images. It discovers the law of weather degraded image formation by considering the visual manifestations under various environmental circumstances [14]. Due to the extensive computational complexity of the physical model, He et al. [15] implemented a novel channel prior, that is, dark channel prior (DCP). It assumes that, for an image taken in a sunny environment, the intensity of at least one-color channel approaches toward zero. However, DCP suffers from a number of problems such as sky-region, halo, and gradient-reversal artifacts, color, edges, and texture distortion issues [16]. Recently, researchers have proposed various channel priors to handle the issues associated with standard DCP such as boosting dark channel [17], bounded optimization-based dark channel prior [18], gradient channel prior [19], adaptive bichannel priors [20], sparse dark channel prior [21], and dark channel prior guided variational framework [22]. However, the existing methods perform poorly especially when images contain a large haze gradient. Most of the existing methods suffer from texture distortion issues [23, 24].

Guo et al. [25] proposed a fusion model to restore the foggy images. It has shown significantly better edge and color preservation. Yoon [26] implemented a variational minimization based haze restoration model. However, [25, 26] are computationally expensive in nature [27].

The primary goal of this research work is to overcome the dehazing artifacts and to preserve significant information of restored images. Brightness channel prior (BCP) is used to obtain the physical attributes of hazy images. The gradient filter is used to refine the transmission map computed using the gradient filter. To optimize the initial parameters of BCP, NSGA is utilized. The comparative analysis is also drawn to evaluate the performance of NSGA based BCP model.

The rest of the paper is organized as follows: Section 2 discusses the related work. The proposed model is presented in Section 3. The comparative analysis is presented in Section 4. Section 5 concludes the proposed haze restoration model.

Luan et al. [28] proposed a restoration model by using the regression model. Support vector regression is used for regression model learning. Jiang et al. [20] proposed an adaptive bichannel prior to superpixels for removing haze from the single image. The superpixels are used as local regions to estimate the atmospheric light and transmission map by combining bright and dark channel priors. Liu et al. [29] utilized a multiscale correlated wavelet approach for restoring the weather degraded images. In multiscale wavelet decomposition, it has been found that haze mainly presents in the low-frequency spectrum. To remove the haze effect, an open dark channel model (ODCM) is used.

Nair and Sankaran [14] implemented a haze removal approach using a dark channel prior and surround filter. The computational complexity of the approach is due to simple convolution. The surround filter minimizes the memory requirements and enhances the speed of transmission estimation. Wu et al. [30] proposed a restoration model for UAV-based railway images using a densely pyramidal residual network (DPRnet). The loss function is used to preserve the structural information significantly. Shu et al. [31] used a multichannel total variation (MTV) regularizer to restore the hazy images. The alternating direction approach of multipliers is utilized for a nonsmooth optimization problem.

Hodges et al. [32] developed a deep learning-based restoration model (DLR) of weather degraded images. In this, a deep learning model is utilized to train the samples using unmatched images. Zhang et al. [33] solved the problem of bright distortion due to DCP. To eliminate the bright distortion, four parameters, such as mean square error (MSE), mean gradient, program running time, and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), are evaluated optimally. The logarithmic enhancement approach is used as an optimal approach.

Emberton et al. [34] used haze region segmentation (SRS) to remove haze from images. To address the problem of spectral distortion, a semantic white balancing approach is applied. Guo et al. [35] utilized the deep convolutional network (DCN) to remove the haze from images. Five maps are derived from the original hazy image. The saliency map and exposure map are used to focus on near-region scenes. The gamma correction map and white balance map are applied to gain the components of the intensity and latent color of the scene. The global image contrast is enhanced by using the haze veil map.

Alajarmeh et al. [36] proposed an image restoration model based on contrast time airlight and liner transmission (CLT). Two approaches are used such as airlight by image integrals to estimate the airlight value and bounded transmission to estimate the linear transmission maps. Gao et al. [37] proposed a dual-fusion approach (DFT) to restore the hazy images. The segmentation approach is used to divided the regions such as the sky and nonsky. A multiregion fusion approach is used to optimally evaluate the transmission map.

From the existing review, it has been observed that the hyperparameters tuning of the dehazing models can achieve better results [38, 39]. In this paper, we have considered various metaheuristic techniques such as Multiobjective Harris Hawks Optimizer (MOHO) [40], Multiobjective Extremal Optimization (MOEO) [41], Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO) [42], Multiobjective Grey Wolf Optimizer (MOGWO) [43], Multiobjective Whale Optimization (MOWO) [44], and Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA)-III [45]. All these approaches are utilized in this paper to tune the initial parameters of GCP by designing a multiobjective fitness function.

3. Proposed Brightness Channel Prior-Based Dehazing Approach

This section discusses the designed dehazing model. Figure 1 demonstrates the overall flow of the designed dehazing model.

3.1. Depth Map Estimation

In the first step, BCP is defined to approximate the depth map of a hazy image aswhere defines local patch. shows BCP. defines color channels of .

3.2. Atmospheric Veil

Atmospheric veil () is then estimated as [15]

3.3. Transmission Map

Transmission map () is then evaluated by using the computed BCP as

3.4. Coarse Atmospheric Veil

The coarse atmospheric veil () is then computed as [15]

In this paper, a gradient filter is used to improve aswhere defines the standard deviation.

3.5. Restoration Model

In the last step of BCP, a haze-free image () can be evaluated as

3.6. Optimization of Initial Parameters of BCP

To optimize the initial parameters of BCP, NSGA [46] is used. Flowchart of NSGA based BCP is depicted in Figure 2.

NSGA-III [45] has been extensively utilized to solve many computationally complex problems. NSGA-III is preferred over the existing multiobjective optimization approaches as it has good convergence speed and it does not suffer from premature convergence issues [47–49]. It utilizes nondominated sorting to sort the nondominated solutions. Table 1 shows the nomenclature of NSGA-III.

Algorithm 1 demonstrates the initial population of NSGA-III based BCP. Initially, a random population is computed. The obtained solutions are then encoded to the range of hyperparameters of BCP. Algorithm 2 demonstrates the working of the proposed NSGA-III based BCP. New visible edges, saturated pixels, and new edge gradients are used as a fitness function. Dominated and nondominated solutions are then computed. Crossover and mutation operators are then used to compute the child solutions. Nondominated sorting is then implemented by using the dominance relation (). Finally, when termination criteria are achieved, then the optimal initial parameter of BCP is returned.

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4. Performance Analysis

The performance of the NSGA-BCP dehazing model is evaluated on processor with 2.66 GHz and 16 GB RAM. MATLAB is used to perform the experiments. The patch size is selected as pixels. Seven well-known dehazing approaches are used for comparative analyses. These approaches are DCP [50], CTT [51], CNN [52], WT [53], FVID [54], norm [55], and TGV [56]. Fifteen benchmark synthetic and real-life hazy images are considered for experimental analysis.

4.1. Visual Analyses of Proposed Dehazing Model

Figures 3–5 show the visual analysis. Restored images obtained from DCP [15] and CTT [51] show distortion of edge and texture information. Also, DCP [15] and CTT [51] suffer from the sky-region problem. CNN [52] and TGV [56] provide better results, but still some texture distortion is there. WT [53], norm [55], and FVID [54] suffer from some halo and gradient-reversal artifacts. The NSGA-BCP based restored images preserve the edge, texture, and color details efficiently.

4.2. Quantitative Analyses of Proposed Dehazing Model

The proposed model is compared with the competitive models by considering various performance metrics like percentage of saturated pixels (), haze gradient, contrast gain (), visible edges, execution time (), structural similarity index metric, and peak signal-to-noise ratio. Bold values in the table represent the high performance of the given model.

Table 2 demonstrates analysis. It is found that the proposed NSGA-BCP based dehazing model has significant values compared to the competitive dehazing approaches. Overall CG analysis shows that the proposed model achieves an average of 1.9745 CG as compared to the maximum average CG, that is, 1.8932, obtained using the existing dehazing models.

Table 3 reveals that the proposed NSGA-BCP based dehazing model has minimum values compared to the competitive dehazing models. Overall analysis shows that the proposed model achieves an average of which is significantly lesser as compared to the minimum average , that is, 0.0463 obtained using the existing dehazing models.

Tables 4 and 5 demonstrate that the proposed NSGA-BCP based dehazing model has achieved better and values as compared to the existing approaches. Overall analysis shows that the proposed model achieves an average of which is significantly better as compared to the maximum average , that is, 2.7367, obtained using the existing dehazing models. Overall analysis shows that the proposed model achieves an average of which is significantly better as compared to the maximum average , that is, 2.7363, obtained using the existing dehazing models.

Table 6 demonstrates execution time (in seconds) analysis. It is observed that the proposed NSGA-BCP based dehazing model is computationally faster than the existing approaches. Overall execution time analysis shows that the proposed model achieves an average of 1.0324 execution time which is significantly minimum as compared to the minimum average execution time, that is, 1.3853, obtained using the existing dehazing models.

Table 7 demonstrates haze gradient analyses. It is observed that the NSGA-BCP based dehazing model achieves lesser haze gradient values as compared to the existing approaches. Overall haze gradient analysis shows that the proposed model achieves an average of 1.7483 haze gradient which is significantly minimum as compared to the minimum average haze gradient, that is, 1.9485, obtained using the existing dehazing models.

Table 8 shows analyses of the proposed and the competitive dehazing models. It is found that the proposed NSGA-BCP based dehazing model has significant values than the competitive dehazing approaches. Overall analysis shows that the proposed model achieves an average of which is significantly lesser as compared to the maximum average , that is, 23.2943, obtained using the existing dehazing models.

Table 9 shows analyses of the proposed and the competitive dehazing models. It is found that the proposed NSGA-BCP based dehazing model has significant values than the competitive dehazing approaches. Overall analysis shows that the proposed model achieves an average of which is significantly lesser as compared to the maximum average , that is, 0.8395, obtained using the existing dehazing models.

From Tables 2–10, it has been found that the NICP outperforms the competitive dehazing models in terms of contrast gain (CG), new visible edges (NVE), average gradient (AG), peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), and structural similarity index metric (SSIM) by , , , , and , respectively. Compared to the competitive models, NICP also minimizes the haze gradient, saturated pixels, and execution time by , , and , respectively.

Besides this, we have also compared the performance of the proposed model with the different optimization approaches such as Multiobjective Harris Hawks Optimizer (MOHO) [40], Multiobjective Extremal Optimization (MOEO) [41], Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO) [42], Multiobjective Grey Wolf Optimizer (MOGWO) [43], and Multiobjective Whale Optimization (MOWO) [44]. We have applied the selected metaheuristic techniques on BCP to obtain the restored images. It has been observed that the proposed model achieves significantly better results as compared to the existing metaheuristic techniques.

5. Conclusion

A brightness channel prior (BCP) based dehazing model was implemented. The transmission map refinement was achieved using the gradient filter. The hyperparameters of BCP are tuned using NSGA. The obtained results revealed that BCP outperforms the competitive dehazing models in terms of contrast gain, new visible edges, average gradient, peak signal-to-noise ratio, and structural similarity index metric by , , , , and , respectively. Compared to the competitive models, BCP also minimizes the smog gradient, saturated pixels, and execution time by , , and , respectively.

Data Availability

The data used to support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon request.

Ethical Approval

The research was conducted according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Hindawi.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Efficient Single Image Dehazing Model Using Metaheuristics-Based Brightness Channel Prior

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Related Works

3. Proposed Brightness Channel Prior-Based Dehazing Approach

3.1. Depth Map Estimation

3.2. Atmospheric Veil

3.3. Transmission Map

3.4. Coarse Atmospheric Veil

3.5. Restoration Model

3.6. Optimization of Initial Parameters of BCP

4. Performance Analysis

4.1. Visual Analyses of Proposed Dehazing Model

4.2. Quantitative Analyses of Proposed Dehazing Model

5. Conclusion

Data Availability

Ethical Approval

Conflicts of Interest

References

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