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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 165, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aca610
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This paper presents an approach to remove dust storms on Mars by utilizing image dehazing knowledge obtained on Earth. By collecting remote-sensing images and selecting clean and dusty image pairs, a deep model is trained to eliminate dust and improve the topographical and geomorphological details of Mars.
Dust storms may remarkably degrade the imaging quality of Martian orbiters and delay the progress of mapping the global topography and geomorphology. To address this issue, this paper presents an approach that reuses the image dehazing knowledge obtained on Earth to resolve the dust-removal problem on Mars. In this approach, we collect remote-sensing images captured by Tianwen-1 and manually select hundreds of clean and dusty images. Inspired by the haze formation process on Earth, we formulate a similar visual degradation process on clean images and synthesize dusty images sharing a similar feature distribution with realistic dusty images. These realistic clean and synthetic dusty image pairs are used to train a deep model that inherently encodes the irrelevant features of dust and decodes them into dust-free images. Qualitative and quantitative results show that dust storms can be effectively eliminated by the proposed approach, leading to obviously improved topographical and geomorphological details of Mars.
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