NTIRE 2019 image dehazing challenge report

Codruta O. Ancuti; Cosmin Ancuti; Radu Timofte; Luc Van Gool; Lei Zhang; Ming Hsuan Yang; Tiantong Guo; Xuelu Li; Venkateswararao Cherukuri; Vishal Monga; Hao Jiang; Siyuan Yang; Yan Liu; Xiaochao Qu; Pengfei Wan; Dongwon Park; Se Young Chun; Ming Hong; Jinying Huang; Yizi Chen; Shuxin Chen; Bomin Wang; Pablo Navarrete Michelini; Hanwen Liu; Dan Zhu; Jing Liu; Sanchayan Santra; Ranjan Mondal; Bhabatosh Chanda; Peter Morales; Tzofi Klinghoffer; Le Manh Quan; Yong Guk Kim; Xiao Liang; Runde Li; Jinshan Pan; Jinhui Tang; Kuldeep Purohit; Maitreya Suin; A. N. Rajagopalan; Raimondo Schettini; Simone Bianco; Flavio Piccoli; C. Cusano; Luigi Celona; Sunhee Hwang; Yu Seung Ma; Hyeran Byun; Subrahmanyam Murala; Akshay Dudhane; Harsh Aulakh; Tianxiang Zheng; Tao Zhang; Weining Qin; Runnan Zhou; Shanhu Wang; Jean Philippe Tarel; Chuansheng Wang; Jiawei Wu

doi:10.1109/CVPRW.2019.00277

NTIRE 2019 image dehazing challenge report

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti, Radu Timofte, Luc Van Gool, Lei Zhang, Ming Hsuan Yang, Tiantong Guo, Xuelu Li, Venkateswararao Cherukuri, Vishal Monga, Hao Jiang, Siyuan Yang, Yan Liu, Xiaochao Qu, Pengfei Wan, Dongwon Park, Se Young Chun, Ming Hong, Jinying Huang, Yizi ChenShuxin Chen, Bomin Wang, Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Hanwen Liu, Dan Zhu, Jing Liu, Sanchayan Santra, Ranjan Mondal, Bhabatosh Chanda, Peter Morales, Tzofi Klinghoffer, Le Manh Quan, Yong Guk Kim, Xiao Liang, Runde Li, Jinshan Pan, Jinhui Tang, Kuldeep Purohit, Maitreya Suin, A. N. Rajagopalan, Raimondo Schettini, Simone Bianco, Flavio Piccoli, C. Cusano, Luigi Celona, Sunhee Hwang, Yu Seung Ma, Hyeran Byun, Subrahmanyam Murala, Akshay Dudhane, Harsh Aulakh, Tianxiang Zheng, Tao Zhang, Weining Qin, Runnan Zhou, Shanhu Wang, Jean Philippe Tarel, Chuansheng Wang, Jiawei Wu

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Abstract

This paper reviews the second NTIRE challenge on image dehazing (restoration of rich details in hazy image) with focus on proposed solutions and results. The training data consists from 55 hazy images (with dense haze generated in an indoor or outdoor environment) and their corresponding ground truth (haze-free) images of the same scene. The dense haze has been produced using a professional haze/fog generator that imitates the real conditions of haze scenes. The evaluation consists from the comparison of the dehazed images with the ground truth images. The dehazing process was learnable through provided pairs of haze-free and hazy train images. There were ~ 270 registered participants and 23 teams competed in the final testing phase. They gauge the state-of-the-art in image dehazing.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2019
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	2241-2253
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728125060
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW.2019.00277
State	Published - Jun 2019
Event	32nd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2019 - Long Beach, United States Duration: Jun 16 2019 → Jun 20 2019

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Name	IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
Volume	2019-June
ISSN (Print)	2160-7508
ISSN (Electronic)	2160-7516

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Conference	32nd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Long Beach
Period	6/16/19 → 6/20/19

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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Ancuti, C. O., Ancuti, C., Timofte, R., Van Gool, L., Zhang, L., Yang, M. H., Guo, T., Li, X., Cherukuri, V., Monga, V., Jiang, H., Yang, S., Liu, Y., Qu, X., Wan, P., Park, D., Chun, S. Y., Hong, M., Huang, J., ... Wu, J. (2019). NTIRE 2019 image dehazing challenge report. In Proceedings - 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2019 (pp. 2241-2253). Article 9025690 (IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops; Vol. 2019-June). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW.2019.00277

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NTIRE 2019 image dehazing challenge report. / Ancuti, Codruta O.; Ancuti, Cosmin; Timofte, Radu et al.
Proceedings - 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2019. IEEE Computer Society, 2019. p. 2241-2253 9025690 (IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops; Vol. 2019-June).

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