NTIRE 2020 Challenge on NonHomogeneous Dehazing

This paper reviews the NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Non-Homogeneous Dehazing of images (restoration of rich details in hazy image). We focus on the proposed solutions and their results evaluated on NH-Haze, a novel dataset consisting of 55 pairs of real haze free and nonhomogeneous hazy images recorded outdoor. NH-Haze is the first realistic nonhomogeneous haze dataset that provides ground truth images. The nonhomogeneous haze has been produced using a professional haze generator that imitates the real conditions of haze scenes. 168 participants registered in the challenge and 27 teams competed in the final testing phase. The proposed solutions gauge the state-of-the-art in image dehazing.

Jongmin Park | Venkateswararao Cherukuri | Hongyu Zhou | Haiyan Wu | Jing Liu | Vishal Monga | Bing Ouyang | Codruta O. Ancuti | Cosmin Ancuti | Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu | Radu Timofte | Yuan Xie | Yanyun Qu | Lizhuang Ma | Ziling Huang | Qili Deng | Ju-Chin Chao | Tsung-Shan Yang | Peng-Wen Chen | Po-Min Hsu | Tzu-Yi Liao | Chung-En Sun | Pei-Yuan Wu | Jeonghyeok Do | Munchurl Kim | Kareem Metwaly | Xuelu Li | Tiantong Guo | Mingzhao Yu | Shiue-Yuan Chuang | Tsung-Nan Lin | David Lee | Jerome Chang | Zhan-Han Wang | Yu-Bang Chang | Chang-Hong Lin | Yu Dong | Xiangzhen Kong | Sourya Dipta Das | Saikat Dutta | Xuan Zhao | Dennis Estrada | Meiqi Wang | Tianqi Su | Siyi Chen | Bangyong Sun | Vincent Whannou de Dravo | Zhe Yu | Pratik Narang | Aryan Mehra | Navaneeth Raghunath | Murari Mandal | Vincent Jacob Whannou de Dravo | Kareem M. Metwaly | Sourya Dipta Das | R. Timofte | Munchurl Kim | Tiantong Guo | V. Monga | Yanyun Qu | Lizhuang Ma | S. Dutta | B. Ouyang | C. Ancuti | C. Ancuti | Bangyong Sun | V. Cherukuri | Ziling Huang | Xiangzhen Kong | Pratik Narang | Qili Deng | Yuan Xie | Hongyu Zhou | A. Mehra | Meiqi Wang | Jing Liu | Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu | Murari Mandal | Tianqi Su | Haiyan Wu | Yu Dong | Xuelu Li | Mingzhao Yu | Dennis C. Estrada | Siyi Chen | Ju-Chin Chao | Tsung-Shan Yang | Peng-Wen Chen | Po-Min Hsu | Tzu-Yi Liao | Chung-En Sun | Pei-Yuan Wu | Jeonghyeok Do | J. Park | S. Chuang | Tsung-Nan Lin | David Lee | Jerome Chang | Zhan-Han Wang | Yu-Bang Chang | Chang-Hong Lin | Xuan Zhao | Zhe Yu | Navaneeth Raghunath | Cosmin Ancuti

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