National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61175033, No.60705015);Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (No.1508085SMF222);Joint Fund of Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Control Technology and Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (No.201451P4)
since nighttime hazy images contain degradation more serious than daytime's due to illumination
resulting in lower brightness
lower contrast
uneven illumination
and chromatic aberration
etc.Depending on imaging law of nighttime hazy image
a novel dehazing algorithm based on illumination estimation is presented.Firstly
the uneven illumination is removed by estimate the illumination map.Secondly
an entropy-based scheme for nighttime images is proposed to obtain transmission map.Finally
the color of illumination is estimated by statistics of source regions.The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively remove the uneven illumination effect
increase the image contrast and improve the image visual effect.