Single Image Dehazing Based on Adaptive Histogram Equalization and Linearization of Gamma Correction

Visibility of outdoor images is usually limited due to haze, dust, smoke and other particles in air. Visibility limit can cause many difficulties for activities of transport, rescue, oceanography etc. Hence, image dehazing is very necessary. In this paper, we propose a single image dehazing method based on combination of adaptive histogram equalization, HSV color model and linearization of Gamma correction. In the experiments, we test the proposed method on hazy images of the TAU dataset. To assess dehazing quality, we utilize NIQE metric and compare to other dehazing methods. The results confirm that the proposed method dehazes effectively and can compete with other state-of-the-art dehazing methods.