DRACO-DehazeNet: An Efficient Image Dehazing Network Combining Detail Recovery and a Novel Contrastive Learning Paradigm

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14595v2
• Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 07:06:50 GMT
• Title: DRACO-DehazeNet: An Efficient Image Dehazing Network Combining Detail Recovery and a Novel Contrastive Learning Paradigm
• Authors: Gao Yu Lee, Tanmoy Dam, Md Meftahul Ferdaus, Daniel Puiu Poenar, Vu Duong,
• Abstract summary: We develop Detail Recovery And Contrastive DehazeNet.<n>It provides efficient and effective dehazing via a dense dilated inverted residual block and an attention-based detail recovery network.<n>A major innovation is its ability to train effectively with limited data, achieved through a novel quadruplet loss-based contrastive dehazing paradigm.
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• Abstract: Image dehazing is crucial for clarifying images obscured by haze or fog, but current learning-based approaches is dependent on large volumes of training data and hence consumed significant computational power. Additionally, their performance is often inadequate under non-uniform or heavy haze. To address these challenges, we developed the Detail Recovery And Contrastive DehazeNet, which facilitates efficient and effective dehazing via a dense dilated inverted residual block and an attention-based detail recovery network that tailors enhancements to specific dehazed scene contexts. A major innovation is its ability to train effectively with limited data, achieved through a novel quadruplet loss-based contrastive dehazing paradigm. This approach distinctly separates hazy and clear image features while also distinguish lower-quality and higher-quality dehazed images obtained from each sub-modules of our network, thereby refining the dehazing process to a larger extent. Extensive tests on a variety of benchmarked haze datasets demonstrated the superiority of our approach. The code repository for this work is available at https://github.com/GreedYLearner1146/DRACO-DehazeNet.

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