Synthetic Fog Generation Using High-Performance Dehazing Networks for Surveillance Applications

This research addresses visibility challenges in surveillance systems under foggy conditions through a novel synthetic fog generation method leveraging the GridNet dehazing architecture. Our approach uniquely reverses GridNet, originally developed for fog removal, to synthesize realistic foggy image...

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Main Authors: Heekwon Lee, Byeongseon Park, Yong-Kab Kim, Sungkwan Youm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-06-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/12/6503
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Summary:This research addresses visibility challenges in surveillance systems under foggy conditions through a novel synthetic fog generation method leveraging the GridNet dehazing architecture. Our approach uniquely reverses GridNet, originally developed for fog removal, to synthesize realistic foggy images. The proposed Fog Generator Model incorporates perceptual and dark channel consistency losses to enhance fog realism and structural consistency. Comparative experiments on the O-HAZY dataset demonstrate that dehazing models trained on our synthetic fog outperform those trained on conventional methods, achieving superior Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) scores. These findings confirm that integrating high-performance dehazing networks into fog synthesis improves the realism and effectiveness of fog removal solutions, offering significant benefits for real-world surveillance applications.
ISSN:2076-3417