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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2015, Article ID 647080, 14 pages /10.1155/2015/647080 Research Article An Image Defogging Approach Based on a Constrained Energy Functional under Bayesian and Variation Theories Li Zhou, Du-Yan Bi, and Lin-Yuan He Communication and Navigation Laboratory, Aerospace Engineering College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi鈥檃n 710038, China Correspondence should be addressed to Li Zhou; zhouli 5120801@163.com Received 31 March 2015; Accepted 12 July 2015 Academic Editor: Alessandro Gasparetto Copyright 漏 2015 Li Zhou et al. his is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Hazy images produce negative inluences on visual applications in the open air since they are in poor visibility with low contrast and whitening color. Numerous existing methods tend to derive a totally rough estimate of scene depth. Unlike previous work, we focus on the probability distribution of depth that is considered as a scene prior. Inspired by the denoising work of multiplicative noises, the inverse problem for hazy removal is recast as deriving the optimal diference between scene irradiance and the airlight from a constrained energy functional under Bayesian and variation theories. Logarithmic maximum a posteriori estimator and a mixed regularization term are introduced to formulate the energy functional framework where the regularization parameter is adaptively selected. he airlight, another unknown quantity, is inferred precisely under a geometric constraint and dark channel prior. With these two estimates, scene irradiance can be recovered. he experimental results on a