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The weather is one of the factors that affect the surrounding environment of railways. Under haze conditions, railway monitoring and staff vision could be blurred, threatening railway safety. This paper tackles image dehazing for railways. The contributions of this paper for railway video image dehazing are as follows: (1) this paper proposes an end-to-end residual block-based haze removal method that consists of two subnetworks, namely fine-grained and coarse-grained network can directly generate the clean image from input hazy image, called RID-Net (Railway Image Dehazing Network). (2) The combined loss function (per-pixel loss and perceptual loss functions) is proposed to achieve both low-level features and high-level features so to generate the high-quality restored images. (3) We take the full-reference criterion (PSNR&amp;SSIM), object detection, running time, and sensory vision to evaluate the proposed dehazing method. Experimental results on railway synthesized dataset, benchmark indoor dataset, and real-world dataset demonstrate our method has superior performance compared to the state-of-the-art methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20216204","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,30]],"date-time":"2020-10-30T21:34:47Z","timestamp":1604093687000},"page":"6204","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["An Efficient Residual-Based Method for Railway Image Dehazing"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4429-7446","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qinghong","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"}]},{"given":"Yong","family":"Qin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"},{"name":"Beijing Research Center of Urban Traffic Information Sensing and Service Technologies, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"}]},{"given":"Zhengyu","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"},{"name":"Beijing Research Center of Urban Traffic Information Sensing and Service Technologies, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"}]},{"given":"Zhiwei","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"}]},{"given":"Limin","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"},{"name":"Beijing Research Center of Urban Traffic Information Sensing and Service Technologies, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Wang, Z., Jia, L., Kou, L., and Qin, Y. 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