The vision system is important for almost all kinds of autonomous driving systems. However, visual data interfered by scattering media, such as smoke, haze, water, and other non-uniform media will be degraded seriously, showing the characteristics of detail loss, poor contrast, low visibility, or color distortion. These characteristics can significantly interfere with the reliability of autonomous driving systems. In real environments the image degradation mechanism is complex, and the estimation of degradation parameters is difficult. This issue remains to be solved. In this study, we employed dense blocks as the framework and introduced the attention mechanism to our model from four dimensions: Multi-scale Attention, Channel Attention, Structure Attention, and ROI (region of interest) Attention. With the help of the training data provided by the weakly supervised model, the proposed method achieved excellent performance in the task of scattering medium imaging optimization in different scenes. Comparative experiments show that the proposed method is robust, and is superior to other state-of-the-art methods in image dehazing, and underwater image enhancement tasks. It is of great significance to improve the reliability of autonomous driving systems in underwater and severe weather environments.


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    Title :

    Multi-Attention DenseNet: A Scattering Medium Imaging Optimization Framework for Visual Data Pre-Processing of Autonomous Driving Systems


    Contributors:
    Liu, Peng (author) / Zhang, Chufeng (author) / Qi, Hao (author) / Wang, Guoyu (author) / Zheng, Haiyong (author)

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    Publication date :

    2022-12-01


    Size :

    5980787 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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