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In such circumstances, traditional image restoration methods cannot fully restore images owing to the persistence of color casting problems and the poor estimation of scene transmission maps and atmospheric light. To effectively correct color casting and enhance visibility for such sand dust images, we proposed a sand dust image enhancement algorithm using the red and blue channels, which consists of two modules: the red channel-based correction function (RCC) and blue channel-based dust particle removal (BDPR), the RCC module is used to correct color casting errors, and the BDPR module removes sand dust particles. After the dust image is processed by these two modules, a clear and visible image can be produced. The experimental results were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively, and the results show that this method can significantly improve the image quality under sandstorm weather and outperform the state-of-the-art restoration algorithms.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22051918","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,1]],"date-time":"2022-03-01T21:25:14Z","timestamp":1646169914000},"page":"1918","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Sand Dust Images Enhancement Based on Red and Blue Channels"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1144-6564","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fei","family":"Shi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Signal Detection and Processing, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6671-0206","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhenhong","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Signal Detection and Processing, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China"}]},{"given":"Huicheng","family":"Lai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Signal Detection and Processing, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China"}]},{"given":"Sensen","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Signal Detection and Processing, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China"}]},{"given":"Junnan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Signal Detection and Processing, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1072","DOI":"10.1109\/TIE.2013.2258306","article-title":"Graph-embedding-based learning for robust object tracking","volume":"61","author":"Zhang","year":"2013","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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