Learning transmission filtering network for image-based pm2.5 estimation

Yinghong Liao, Bin Qiu, Zhuo Su, Ruomei Wang, Xiangjian He

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Abstract

PM2.5 is an important indicator of the severity of air pollution and its level can be predicted through hazy photographs caused by its degradation. Image-based PM2.5 estimation is thus extensively employed in various multimedia applications but is challenging because of its ill-posed property. In this paper, we convert it to the problem of estimating the PM2.5-relevant haze transmission and propose a learning model called the transmission filtering network. Different from most methods that generate a transmission map directly from a hazy image, our model takes the coarse transmission map derived from the dark channel prior as the input. To obtain a transmission map that satisfies the local smoothness constraint without regional boundary degradation, our model performs the edge-preserving smoothing filtering as the refinement on the map. Moreover, we introduce the attention mechanism to the network architecture for more efficient feature extraction and smoothing effects in the transmission estimation. Experimental results prove that our model performs favorably against the state-of-the-art dehazing methods in a variety of hazy scenes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages266-271
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538695524
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2019 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 8 Jul 201912 Jul 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
Volume2019-July
ISSN (Print)1945-7871
ISSN (Electronic)1945-788X

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period8/07/1912/07/19

Keywords

  • Deep networks
  • Edge-preserving smoothing
  • Image dehazing
  • PM2.5 estimation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications

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