Fully Shareable Scene Text Recognition Modeling For Horizontal and Vertical Writing

Most existing image dehazing approaches are able to achieve desirable results whose differences are too subtle for people to qualitatively judge. Therefore, it is important to adopt quantitative assessment on real-world hazy images. However, many dehazing works have not been quantitatively evaluated on real-world hazy images due to the lack of appropriate real-world datasets. in this work, we attempt to address the issue and present a well-aligned real-world benchmark dataset, namely RW-Haze, for image dehazing evaluation, which had been lacking for a long period of time. It contains 210 pairs of well-aligned haze-free images and hazy images with distinct haze densities, which were captured from six cities in China by fixed cameras. To the best of our knowledge, RW-Haze is the first real-world dataset that is made up of well-aligned image pairs of haze-free and hazy images with diverse haze levels. We select 13 state-of-the-art single image dehazing works for making comprehensive evaluations among them on RW-Haze dataset. Experimental results show that there still exist rich rooms for image dehazing research to improve its robustness on natural hazy images, especially dense haze scenes.