Remote Sensing (Dec 2024)

Multi-Dimensional and Multi-Scale Physical Dehazing Network for Remote Sensing Images

  • Hao Zhou,
  • Le Wang,
  • Qiao Li,
  • Xin Guan,
  • Tao Tao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16244780
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 24
p. 4780

Abstract

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Haze obscures remote sensing images, making it difficult to extract valuable information. To address this problem, we propose a fine detail extraction network that aims to restore image details and improve image quality. Specifically, to capture fine details, we design multi-scale and multi-dimensional extraction blocks and then fuse them to optimize feature extraction. The multi-scale extraction block adopts multi-scale pixel attention and channel attention to extract and combine global and local information from the image. Meanwhile, the multi-dimensional extraction block uses depthwise separable convolutional layers to capture additional dimensional information. Additionally, we integrate an atmospheric scattering model unit into the network to enhance both the dehazing effectiveness and stability. Our experiments on the SateHaze1k and HRSD datasets demonstrate that the proposed method efficiently handles remote sensing images with varying levels of haze, successfully recovers fine details, and achieves superior results compared to existing state-of-the-art dehazing techniques.

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