Color Hazy Image Database (CHIC)

One of the major issues related to dehazing methods (single or multiple image based) evaluation is the absence of the haze-free image (ground-truth). This is also a problem when it concerns the validation of Koschmieder model or its subsequent dehazing methods. To overcome this problem, we created a database called CHIC (Color Hazy Image for Comparison), consisting of two scenes in controlled environment. In addition to the haze-free image, we provide 9 images of different fog densities.

CHIC Database comprises the following two directories:
CHIC_Static_scenes
CHIC_Dynamic_scenes

Dynamic_scenes directory contains two sub-directories: Direct_path and Oblique path. Each one contains full images and a sub-directory of resized images.

Static_scenes directory contains two sub-directories: Scene 1 and Scene 2. Each one contains four sub-directories: Scene_indexed, back_patch, Cropped_images, Resized_images.

full images size: 6000 x 4000
Scene1_cropped images size: 1566 x 2244
Scene2_cropped images size: 2010 x 3528
Resized_images are resized to 30% of full images size.

Size of Dynamic_scenes directory: 1.19 GO
Size of Static_scenes directory: 1.51 GO