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We propose VisNet, which is a new approach based on deep integrated convolutional neural networks for the estimation of visibility distances from camera imagery. The implemented network uses three streams of deep integrated convolutional neural networks, which are connected in parallel. In addition, we have collected the largest dataset with three million outdoor images and exact visibility values for this study. To evaluate the model\u2019s performance fairly and objectively, the model is trained on three image datasets with different visibility ranges, each with a different number of classes. Moreover, our proposed model, VisNet, evaluated under dissimilar fog density scenarios, uses a diverse set of images. Prior to feeding the network, each input image is filtered in the frequency domain to remove low-level features, and a spectral filter is applied to each input for the extraction of low-contrast regions. Compared to the previous methods, our approach achieves the highest performance in terms of classification based on three different datasets. Furthermore, our VisNet considerably outperforms not only the classical methods, but also state-of-the-art models of visibility estimation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19061343","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,18]],"date-time":"2019-03-18T12:18:53Z","timestamp":1552911533000},"page":"1343","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":78,"title":["VisNet: Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Forecasting Atmospheric Visibility"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4590-2484","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Akmaljon","family":"Palvanov","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Gachon University, Gyeonggi-do 461-701, Korea"}]},{"given":"Young Im","family":"Cho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Gachon University, Gyeonggi-do 461-701, Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2014). 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