Enhancing Visibility of Polarimetric Underwater Image by Transmittance Correction
Underwater vision can be severely degraded by the scattering media due to backscatter veiling and signal attenuation. In this paper, we focus on the case that the polarization effect of the object could not be neglected, and we propose a method for recovering the underwater image based on the transm...
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doaj-e83288f223d848b39085ed2317131a8f2021-03-29T17:41:40ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552017-01-019311010.1109/JPHOT.2017.26980007919152Enhancing Visibility of Polarimetric Underwater Image by Transmittance CorrectionHaofeng Hu0Lin Zhao1Bingjing Huang2Xiaobo Li3Hui Wang4Tiegen Liu5College of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, ChinaCollege of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, ChinaCollege of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, ChinaCollege of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, ChinaCollege of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, ChinaCollege of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, ChinaUnderwater vision can be severely degraded by the scattering media due to backscatter veiling and signal attenuation. In this paper, we focus on the case that the polarization effect of the object could not be neglected, and we propose a method for recovering the underwater image based on the transmittance correction, which transforms the transmittance for the low depolarized objects from negative values to the positive values that optimize the image quality with a simple algorithm of polynomial fitting. We show with a real-world experiment that with the method proposed in this paper, the quality of the underwater image can be effectively enhanced either for the object with high depolarization degree or for that with low depolarization degree. In particular, without sacrificing the quality of image recovery for the objects with high depolarization degree, the method proposed in this paper can achieve a better performance than the previous methods.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7919152/Polarimetric imagingimage enhancementimaging through turbid media. |
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Haofeng Hu Lin Zhao Bingjing Huang Xiaobo Li Hui Wang Tiegen Liu Enhancing Visibility of Polarimetric Underwater Image by Transmittance Correction IEEE Photonics Journal Polarimetric imaging image enhancement imaging through turbid media. |
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Enhancing Visibility of Polarimetric Underwater Image by Transmittance Correction |
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Enhancing Visibility of Polarimetric Underwater Image by Transmittance Correction |
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Enhancing Visibility of Polarimetric Underwater Image by Transmittance Correction |
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Enhancing Visibility of Polarimetric Underwater Image by Transmittance Correction |
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Enhancing Visibility of Polarimetric Underwater Image by Transmittance Correction |
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enhancing visibility of polarimetric underwater image by transmittance correction |
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Underwater vision can be severely degraded by the scattering media due to backscatter veiling and signal attenuation. In this paper, we focus on the case that the polarization effect of the object could not be neglected, and we propose a method for recovering the underwater image based on the transmittance correction, which transforms the transmittance for the low depolarized objects from negative values to the positive values that optimize the image quality with a simple algorithm of polynomial fitting. We show with a real-world experiment that with the method proposed in this paper, the quality of the underwater image can be effectively enhanced either for the object with high depolarization degree or for that with low depolarization degree. In particular, without sacrificing the quality of image recovery for the objects with high depolarization degree, the method proposed in this paper can achieve a better performance than the previous methods. |
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Polarimetric imaging image enhancement imaging through turbid media. |
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