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Multi-Scale Boosted Dehazing Network with Dense Feature Fusion

28 Apr 2020CVPR 2020 6arXiv:2004.13388archive 2025-07-28

Hang Dong, Jinshan Pan, Lei Xiang, Zhe Hu, Xinyi Zhang, Fei Wang, Ming-Hsuan Yang

In this paper, we propose a Multi-Scale Boosted Dehazing Network with Dense Feature Fusion based on the U-Net architecture. The proposed method is designed based on two principles, boosting and error feedback, and we show that they are suitable for the dehazing problem. By incorporating the Strengthen-Operate-Subtract boosting strategy in the decoder of the proposed model, we develop a simple yet effective boosted decoder to progressively restore the haze-free image. To address the issue of preserving spatial information in the U-Net architecture, we design a dense feature fusion module using the back-projection feedback scheme. We show that the dense feature fusion module can simultaneously remedy the missing spatial information from high-resolution features and exploit the non-adjacent features. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that the proposed model performs favorably against the state-of-the-art approaches on the benchmark datasets as well as real-world hazy images.

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DecoderImage Dehazing

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Dehazing Haze4k MSBDN PSNR 22.99 #11 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Image Dehazing Haze4k MSBDN SSIM 0.85 #11 of 11 Archive leaderboard report

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Concatenated Skip ConnectionConvolutionMax PoolingReLUU-Net

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