Iterative Refinement of Transmission Map for Stereo Image Defogging

Abstract

This paper presents a novel stereo image defogging algorithm using the disparity map. The proposed algorithm iteratively performs three steps; i) disparity map estimation using the optical flow, ii) transmission map generation using the estimated disparity map, and iii) reconstruction of defogged image using the transmission map. Experimental results show that the proposed method can successfully remove the fog without color distortion or ringing artifacts.