Fog Images Generation About Unmanned Surface Vessels with Improved Generative Adversarial Network

This paper proposes a fog weather data augmentation method for the unmanned surface vessels (USVs) via improved Generative Adversarial Network(GAN) model. First, a generator scheme for GAN is proposed with the guided generation of the atmospheric scattering model in this paper. A Laplacian Pyramid Based Depth Residuals model is added to the generator which reduces the difficulty of generating fog images caused by the degradation of water surface image and improves the quality of generated images. Finally, fog images are generated from sunny weather images collected with HUST-12C by LPBDR-GAN model and experiments show that generated images are very close to real fog images.