From Fog Chamber to Aircraft Window: Pixel-Registered Imaging and Synthetic Fine-Tuning Enable Cross-Domain Defogging

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29093v1
• Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:21:29 GMT
• Title: From Fog Chamber to Aircraft Window: Pixel-Registered Imaging and Synthetic Fine-Tuning Enable Cross-Domain Defogging
• Abstract summary: Deep defogging pipeline pretrained on controlled laboratory fog and fine-tuned with domain-randomized synthetic fog applied to clear outdoor scenes generalizes across a graded sequence of out-of-distribution settings with no target-domain training.<n>This directly addresses an open transfer limitation reported for real-world binocular defogging.
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• Abstract: A deep defogging pipeline pretrained on controlled laboratory fog and fine-tuned with domain-randomized synthetic fog applied to clear outdoor scenes generalizes across a graded sequence of out-of-distribution settings with no target-domain training, from chamber-free free-flowing fog to iPhone video recorded through an aircraft cabin window in flight, an entirely unseen sensor, scene, and optical path. This directly addresses an open transfer limitation reported for real-world binocular defogging. Two design choices support the transfer. First, a single-camera fog imager photographs a flat-panel display through an artificial-fog enclosure with a fixed 114~mm scattering path, producing 5{,}495 pixel-aligned foggy/clear pairs. Exact registration permits a paired Laplacian ratio that predicts per-image restoration quality far better than single-image proxies (Spearman $ρ= 0.632$ versus $0.399$) and supports pixel-exact $L_1$ reconstruction training that avoids adversarial hallucination. Second, the fog-chamber checkpoint is fine-tuned on Mapillary Vistas crops overlaid with on-the-fly randomized synthetic fog spanning a broad range of strengths, spatial variations, airlights, and noise conditions. On a 552-image held-out split, a uniform comparison of 30 restoration backbones places NAFNet at the top (24.33~dB~/~0.7912~SSIM), with a compact alternative within 1.29~dB at 3\% of the parameter count, and a ResNet-50 classifier confirms that the restoration preserves semantic content rather than only pixel-level structure. On unpaired aircraft-window video, NIQE decreases from a mean of 6.22 to 4.97 after fine-tuning, with temporally stable output across full-motion sequences. The same backbone, under paired supervision, also reaches 20.71~dB~/~0.683~SSIM on a non-overlapping O-HAZE/NH-HAZE split (a transferability check rather than a competitive ranking).

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