Improved Techniques for Learning to Dehaze and Beyond: A Collective Study
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This paper reviews the collective endeavors by the team of authors in exploring two interlinked important tasks, based on the recently released REalistic Single Image DEhazing (RESIDE) benchmark: i) single image dehazing as a low-level image restoration problem; ii) high-level visual understanding (e.g., object detection) from hazy images. For the first task, the authors investigated a variety of loss functions, and found the perception-driven loss to improve dehazing performance very notably. For the second task, the authors came up with multiple solutions including using more advanced modules in the dehazing-detection cascade, as well as domain-adaptive object detectors. In both tasks, our proposed solutions are verified to significantly advance the state-of-the-art performance. The GitHub repository URL is: https://github.com/guanlongzhao/dehaze
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