Fast haze removal from a single image

Images of outdoor scenes show poor visibility in presence of haze. This results in poor performance of many outdoor images progressing systems. In this paper, we present a fast haze removal method using a single color or gray level image. Based on the analyses of physical-based model, we estimate airlight and atmospheric light utilizing the simple average filter. Our method is very simple and efficient and achieves real-time computation. Experiments demonstrate that our results achieve as good visibility as a few state-of-art algorithms´.