Single Image Dehazing using Guided Filter

and Bilateral Filter

Author – “Dantala Prudhviraj” “Iskala Manikanta” “Ksk Deepak”

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Abstract-Signal image dehazing using depth transmission by

using guided and bilateral filter in MATLAB there are many
techniques to achieve dehazing but in this project we are
doing on Dark channel prior base.
The haze image is being captured by the camera and store in
database. The hazed image is being dehazed using both
guided and
bilateral this project mainly implemented in automobile
industry which prevent accidents during winters. First the
Transmutations Map is being estimated and added to the
where J is the scene radiance and also the restored haze-free
image, t is the medium transmission describes the light
portion that is not scattered and reaches the camera, I is
the intensity (observed) and also the input hazed image A is
the atmospheric light .We have to obtain
J, A, and t from I is the main goal of image dehazing.
On the right side ,the term J(x)t(x) is called direct
attenuation, and the term A(1−t(x)) is called air light. The
scene radiance and its decay in the medium is described by
Direct attenuation, the shift of the scene colour due to air
light results from previously scattered light .

dehaze image along with the Atmospheric light.
To dehaze /defog is due to attenuation and scattering that
affects the degradation of visibility between the observer
and camera in land/underwater through appropriated
Image enhancement and Image restoration methods.
Single Image – Dark Channel Prior (DCP),
Image Filters – Guided filter, and Bilateral filter.
To evaluate the dehazed image with various performance
metrics methods such as Qualitative evaluation and
Quantitative evaluation.
The dark channel prior is process of selecting the minimum
intense pixels from a RGB image and it is based on
observation that patches in the outdoor haze-free images
contain some pixels whose intensities are low in at least one
of three colour channels. For an image J , the dark channel
can be defined as
Jdark(x)=minc∈{r,g,b}(miny∈Ω(x)(Jc(y)))
where Ω(x) is a local patch centered at x and jc is colour
channel of J. The low intensities in the dark channel are
mainly due to three factors Shadow, color objects, dark
objects

Introduction- Here, we have to adopt the dark channel

prior, obtain a similar transmission map based on Multi-
Scale Retinex (MSR) theory, and propose an improved
image dehazing algorithm which is faster compared to
He's method. The transformation of haze image from
RGB to YCbCr space, using MSR(Multi-Scale Retinex)
algorithm on the luminance component, with simple
adjustment on the result, a transmission map whose
function is similar to his approach is obtained. By
Combining haze image model and dark channel prior, we
can recover a high quality haze-free image. Our method is
fully automatic and much faster compared with original
dark channel prior method, since the time cost of
obtaining transmission map is cut down significantly,
while maintaining comparable good results on the whole .
Haze Image Model and Dark Channel Prior
In computer graphics and vision , the model used to
describe the formation of a haze image is as follows,
I(x)=J(x)t(x)+A(1−t(x)).
To describe the formation of a haze image is as

follows I(x)=J(x)t(x)+A(1−t(x)).

for an image J its dark channel can be defined as

Jdark(x)=minc∈{r,g,b}(miny∈Ω(x)(Jc(y)))
 Hear based on the Gaussian value quality of the image
The above methods are the types or modes of Dehazing depends if sigma is more then visibility of image is not
clear and if the value is less the edges are clear

From the above difference the bilateral is preferred prior

than the guided filter as by using bilateral filter for
dehazing we get clear edges than using Guided filter this
dehazing in bilateral filter can be done using Gaussian
Blur along with its equation as below

In this we have taken some external data as an input like
2_input,5,2,3,6,12_input and obtain Psnr ,Immse,
Ssim,Brisque,Nique ,Pique,Entropy,Edge Intensity these
values are being taken for both guided filter and also
bilateral filter
The above image is the o/p of the Haze image and is
filtered by using Bilateral filter and Guided filter from the
above we clearly prove that using bilateral is best for
dehazing rather than Guided filter
Conclusion - We conclude that our dehazing method can
provide better dehazing results when compared with the
existing methods We get the dehaze image using bilateral
filter in MATLAB. The Haze image which was given as
input is filtered by using bilateral filter the obtain image was
haze free image obtained using padding with convolution
obtain a clear edges.
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