HistoFusionNet: Histogram-Guided Fusion and Frequency-Adaptive Refinement for Nighttime Image Dehazing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03800v1
• Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:08:13 GMT
• Title: HistoFusionNet: Histogram-Guided Fusion and Frequency-Adaptive Refinement for Nighttime Image Dehazing
• Abstract summary: HistoFusionNet is a transformer-enhanced architecture tailored for nighttime image dehazing.<n>Our team ranked 1st among 22 participating teams, highlighting the robustness and competitive performance of our method.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Nighttime image dehazing remains a challenging low-level vision problem due to the joint presence of haze, glow, non-uniform illumination, color distortion, and sensor noise, which often invalidate assumptions commonly used in daytime dehazing. To address these challenges, we propose HistoFusionNet, a transformer-enhanced architecture tailored for nighttime image dehazing by combining histogram-guided representation learning with frequency-adaptive feature refinement. Built upon a multi-scale encoder-decoder backbone, our method introduces histogram transformer blocks that model long-range dependencies by grouping features according to their dynamic-range characteristics, enabling more effective aggregation of similarly degraded regions under complex nighttime lighting. To further improve restoration fidelity, we incorporate a frequency-aware refinement branch that adaptively exploits complementary low- and high-frequency cues, helping recover scene structures, suppress artifacts, and enhance local details. This design yields a unified framework that is particularly well suited to the heterogeneous degradations encountered in real nighttime hazy scenes. Extensive experiments and highly competitive performance of our method on the NTIRE 2026 Nighttime Image Dehazing Challenge benchmark demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Our team ranked 1st among 22 participating teams, highlighting the robustness and competitive performance of HistoFusionNet. The code is available at: https://github.com/heydarimo/Night-Time-Dehazing

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