Block-based Multi-scale Haze Image Enhancement Method for Surveillance Application

Images captured in surveillance systems suffer from low contrast and faint color. Recently, plenty of dehazing algorithms have been proposed to enhance visibility and restore color. We present a new image enhancement algorithm based on multi-scale block-rooting processing. The basic idea is to apply the frequency domain image enhancement approach for different image block scales. The parameter of transform coefficient enhancement for every block is driven through optimization of measure of enhancement. The main idea is that enhancing the contrast of an image would create more high-frequency content in the enhanced image than the original image. To test the performance of the proposed algorithm, the public database O-HAZE is used.