Dehazing Remote Sensing and UAV Imagery: A Review of Deep Learning, Prior-based, and Hybrid Approaches

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07520v1
• Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 07:35:24 GMT
• Title: Dehazing Remote Sensing and UAV Imagery: A Review of Deep Learning, Prior-based, and Hybrid Approaches
• Authors: Gao Yu Lee, Jinkuan Chen, Tanmoy Dam, Md Meftahul Ferdaus, Daniel Puiu Poenar, Vu N Duong,
• Abstract summary: High-quality images are crucial in remote sensing and UAV applications. atmospheric haze can severely degrade image quality, making image dehazing a critical research area.
• Score: 4.516330345599765
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: High-quality images are crucial in remote sensing and UAV applications, but atmospheric haze can severely degrade image quality, making image dehazing a critical research area. Since the introduction of deep convolutional neural networks, numerous approaches have been proposed, and even more have emerged with the development of vision transformers and contrastive/few-shot learning. Simultaneously, papers describing dehazing architectures applicable to various Remote Sensing (RS) domains are also being published. This review goes beyond the traditional focus on benchmarked haze datasets, as we also explore the application of dehazing techniques to remote sensing and UAV datasets, providing a comprehensive overview of both deep learning and prior-based approaches in these domains. We identify key challenges, including the lack of large-scale RS datasets and the need for more robust evaluation metrics, and outline potential solutions and future research directions to address them. This review is the first, to our knowledge, to provide comprehensive discussions on both existing and very recent dehazing approaches (as of 2024) on benchmarked and RS datasets, including UAV-based imagery.

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