An Effective Framework for Enhancement of Hazed and Low-Illuminated Images

Abstract

Abstract: Haze removal is important for computer photography and computer vision applications. However, most of the existing methods for removing theha- ziness are designed for daytime images and may not always work well at hazy night images. Unlike image conditions during the sunny day, images captured in winter night conditions can suffer from irregular lighting due to artificial light sources with varying colors and non-uniform illumination, which show low brightness, contrast and color distortion. In this paper, we propose a new frame- work for presenting night-time hazy imaging, which works on haze removal and low-illumination correction algorithm taking into consideration both the non-uni- form illumination of artificial light sources and the effects of dispersion and at- tenuation of fog. Therefore, firstly, we will give a hazy low-illuminated image having low light as input and then apply a technique to clarify the visibility of the input image. Then, apply the contrast enhancement and after that apply the LIME technique and finally, apply the white balance technique and we will get our improved output image. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve an illumination balance, results without haziness and good color cor- rection capacity. Keywords: Image Enhancement, Low Illumination, Reflectance, Low Contrast, Low Light Images, Nighttime Images, Low Visibility Images, Nighttime Haze Removal.