An efficient structure-aware image dehazing algorithm for underground mining scenes
摘要
Underground mine surveillance systems impose stringent requirements for low latency and high throughput, while abrupt depth discontinuities and strong light interference often lead to transmission-map misestimation and edge halos in dehazing results. To address these issues, we propose a structure-aware, guided, and computationally efficient dehazing algorithm. The method performs channel-wise color calibration using luminance statistics with contrast compensation. In the luminance domain, it integrates gradient cues with morphological constraints to construct low-confidence candidate regions for strong light interference, thereby suppressing overexposure-induced bias in atmospheric light estimation. Transmission estimation is further reformulated as a discriminability optimization between weak-texture regions and background areas; edge-aware weights and exponential-decay fusion are used to obtain a scale-adaptive transmission map, which is then refined via highlight-mask-guided filtering. Experiments on a self-built underground dataset show that, relative to the average performance of competing methods, the proposed approach reduces FADE/NIQE/BRISQUE by 46.4%/12.8%/29.3% and improves