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Contrastive Learning for Compact Single Image Dehazing

19 Apr 2021CVPR 2021 1arXiv:2104.09367archive 2025-07-28

Haiyan Wu, Yanyun Qu, Shaohui Lin, Jian Zhou, Ruizhi Qiao, Zhizhong Zhang, Yuan Xie, Lizhuang Ma

Single image dehazing is a challenging ill-posed problem due to the severe information degeneration. However, existing deep learning based dehazing methods only adopt clear images as positive samples to guide the training of dehazing network while negative information is unexploited. Moreover, most of them focus on strengthening the dehazing network with an increase of depth and width, leading to a significant requirement of computation and memory. In this paper, we propose a novel contrastive regularization (CR) built upon contrastive learning to exploit both the information of hazy images and clear images as negative and positive samples, respectively. CR ensures that the restored image is pulled to closer to the clear image and pushed to far away from the hazy image in the representation space. Furthermore, considering trade-off between performance and memory storage, we develop a compact dehazing network based on autoencoder-like (AE) framework. It involves an adaptive mixup operation and a dynamic feature enhancement module, which can benefit from preserving information flow adaptively and expanding the receptive field to improve the network's transformation capability, respectively. We term our dehazing network with autoencoder and contrastive regularization as AECR-Net. The extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that our AECR-Net surpass the state-of-the-art approaches. The code is released in https://github.com/GlassyWu/AECR-Net.

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Contrastive LearningImage DehazingSingle Image Dehazing

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Dehazing RS-Haze AECR-Net PSNR 35.69 #5 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Image Dehazing SOTS Indoor AECR-Net PSNR 37.17 #20 of 34 Archive leaderboard report
Image Dehazing SOTS Indoor AECR-Net SSIM 0.990 #20 of 34 Archive leaderboard report

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Contrastive LearningMixup

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