Exploiting complementary advantages of different reflection and scattering properties of near-infrared (NIR) images and visible (VIS) images, this paper first proposes a defogging model for single image input and then develops an extended model, a fusion model for NIR and VIS color images, to enhance the visibility of image objects in outdoor atmospheric scattering environments. Our fusion model enhances the extracted details of NIR and VIS images by filtering with our defogging model in the frequency domain (F-D) that takes into account the energy preservation of these two types of images in addition to the high resolution of the fused results. Finally, based on the initial fusion, we propose a color retention mapping method to keep the fusion results free of color distortion. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method not only achieves good defogging effect, but also can effectively combine the complementary NIR and VIS information in image color and visibility.
26 August 2020 in Signal, Image and Video Processing
Imaging research on complex samples going through random scattering medias is a very difficult challenge in the field of computational optics. With the deep learning methods applying to the field of speckle correlation image reconstruction, many problems of imaging through strong scattering media and small perturbations of the media which reduces the imaging performance have been resolved. However, due to the randomness of the scattering medium, large and complex samples are required to be trained, deep learning based methods alway occupy a lot of energy consumption on Graphic Processing Unit (GPU). Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS) integrating the cyber, physical, and social worlds is a key technology to provide proactive and personalized services for humans. This paper proposes an efficient CNN to do speckle image reconstruction based on cloud-edge computing for CPSS, which can achieve higher image resolution by less inputs.In this work, we design a self-back stacked Efficient Residual Factorized Network (SBS-ERFNet) to do image reconstruction through scattering medium. Different from the traditional ERFNets, our framework includes two stages of training, we use this model to study the speckle image from a low-to-high resolution manner. The experiments show that even if a small samples is input for training, the test results can reach a high resolution.
18 December 2025 in Future Generation Computer Systems