Aiming at the limitations of some current defogging algorithms caused by using foggy and non-foggy image pairs and the cost consumption caused by supervised learning, this paper proposes an image defogging algorithm based on comparative learning and recurrent consistent generative adversarial network. By training recurrent generative adversarial network with unpaired foggy and clear images, the value of image defogging algorithm in real scenes is improved, and the domain shift problem of defogging algorithm is alleviated; meanwhile, we design the contrast-guided branch to learn the potential feature distribution of the image, implicitly constrain the embedding of different samples in the depth feature space, deeply mine the similar features of foggy and clear images, pull the similar characteristics of the images closer together, retain the mutual information between the two types of images, maintain the consistency of image content, and improve the performance of network defogging; introduce the frequency loss, constrain the output of the generator, reduce the loss of information in the frequency domain, further retain the content and structural information of the image, reduce the blurring and distortion of the defogged image, and improve the quality and clarity of the generated image. Experimental results show that the model proposed in this paper is an effective image defogging algorithm with improved information entropy and average gradient and richer detail information compared to the current mainstream deep learning-based and traditional defogging algorithms.
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