Polarization-based exploration for clear underwater vision in natural illumination

Underwater imaging provides human vision system friendly images; however, it often suffers from severe image degradation. This research developed an underwater polarization imaging model, which considers the water scattering effect, as well as absorption effect. It fully explored the polarization in...

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Veröffentlicht in:Optics express 2019-02, Vol.27 (3), p.3629-3641
Hauptverfasser: Liu, Fei, Wei, Yi, Han, Pingli, Yang, Kui, Bai, Lu, Shao, Xiaoepeng
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Underwater imaging provides human vision system friendly images; however, it often suffers from severe image degradation. This research developed an underwater polarization imaging model, which considers the water scattering effect, as well as absorption effect. It fully explored the polarization information of the target scene that backscattered light is partially polarized and target light is unpolarized. Then backscattered light is first estimated and removed. The target scene's distance information is derived based upon the polarization information, and then applied to develop a distance-based Lambertian model. This model enables estimation of the intensity loss caused by water absorption and accurate target radiance recovery. Furthermore, real-world experiments show that the developed model handled the underwater image degradation well. In particular, it enables effective color cast correction resulting from water absorption, which traditional imaging methods always ignore.
ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/OE.27.003629