Fog is a combination of two components airlight and direct attenuation, degrades the picture quality and creates a lot of problem in video surveillance, tracking and navigation. Thus, to remove it from an image, various defogging methods have been proposed in literature. Defogging can achieved using multiple images and single image fog removal method. One of the prominent methods in literature for defogging is Dark Channel Prior (DCP). This method though quite effective in removing fog from images has very high time complexity. In addition, it does not preserve edges and has halo effect. Therefore, this paper proposes a new technique which overcomes the disadvantage of DCP and at the same time preserves the picture quality. The proposed method is implemented in MATLAB-09 and the simulation results show the proposed method is quite good.
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