Visibility restoration for real-world hazy images via improved physical model and Gaussian total variation

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 62301453) and the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, China (No. cstc2020jcyj-msxmX0324).

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests or financial conflicts to disclose.

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