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However, having a large homogeneous region such as sky region, the restored images suffer from color distortion and block effects. Thus, to overcome the limitation of DCP method, we introduce a framework which is based on sky and non-sky region segmentation and restoring sky and non-sky parts separately. Here, isolation of the sky and non-sky part is done by using a binary mask formulated by floodfill algorithm. The foggy sky part is restored by using Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE) and non-sky part by modified DCP. The restored parts are blended together for the resultant image. The proposed method is evaluated using both synthetic and real world foggy images against state of the art techniques. The experimental result shows that our proposed method provides better entropy value than other stated techniques along with have better natural visual effects while consuming much lower processing time.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e23030285","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,26]],"date-time":"2021-02-26T09:47:20Z","timestamp":1614332840000},"page":"285","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Image Defogging Framework Using Segmentation and the Dark Channel Prior"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2521-3208","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sabiha","family":"Anan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chattogram 4349, Bangladesh"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4228-6727","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohammad Ibrahim","family":"Khan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chattogram 4349, Bangladesh"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3043-506X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mir Md Saki","family":"Kowsar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chattogram 4349, Bangladesh"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7345-0999","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kaushik","family":"Deb","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chattogram 4349, Bangladesh"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9664-3056","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pranab Kumar","family":"Dhar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chattogram 4349, Bangladesh"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8994-729X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Takeshi","family":"Koshiba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, 1-6-1 Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8050, Japan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Schechner, Y.Y., Narasimhan, S.G., and Nayar, S.K. 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