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A prior guided conditional generative adversarial network for single image dehazing

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This is a method for single image dehazing by using the prior-based dehazing results as guidance
described in the following paper:

Yan Zhao Su, Zhi Gao Cui, Chuan He, Ai Hua Li, Tao Wang, Kun Cheng,
"Prior guided conditional generative adversarial network for single image dehazing,"
Neurocomputing, 2021.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2020.10.061

Please contact Yan Zhao Su (syzlhh@163.com) if you have any questions.

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DCP_GAN is proposed for single image dehazing by using a prior-based dehazing image as a guidance image for the conditional
generative adversarial network. It is a combination with the prior information and image translation method.

The code is edit and test on windows 10 system with the pytorch(version 1.8.0+cu101) framework and a 2070S GPU.
For the usage, you need prepare the datasets, then using the train.py to train the generative model, in the end you can use
test.py to test the model on your hazy images.



Please refer to the above paper for more details of the methods.

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