This is a novel methodology to perform dehazing process on a single outdoor Image using feature extraction techniques in Deep Learning and 3 added pre-processing steps.

Dataset used for training and validation is SOTS outdoor available here.

Detailed explanation and documentation available here

Follow the following steps to run the code:

1. Download the image datasets from kaggle- link :- https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/wwwwwee/dehaze
2. Create separate folders for each specific dataset type: hazy images, clear images and hazy test images.
3. Open the VGG16 CNN model on Google colab/Google colab pro
4. Run the code (provide proper dataset path for input to the model)
5. Please note that you may have to run the VGG16 model network function code-block again once the model is trained (for executing pruning without error).
6. Provide the path for hazy test images to the trained model and run the block of code.
7. Dehazed image will be generated by the model.