Title
Underwater image enhancement via extended multi-scale Retinex.
Abstract
Underwater exploration has become an active research area over the past few decades. The image enhancement is one of the challenges for those computer vision based underwater researches because of the degradation of the images in the underwater environment. The scattering and absorption are the main causes in the underwater environment to make the images decrease their visibility, for example, blurry, low contrast, and reducing visual ranges. To tackle aforementioned problems, this paper presents a novel method for underwater image enhancement inspired by the Retinex framework, which simulates the human visual system. The term Retinex is created by the combinations of Retina and Cortex. The proposed method, namely LAB-MSR, is achieved by modifying the original Retinex algorithm. It utilizes the combination of the bilateral filter and trilateral filter on the three channels of the image in CIELAB color space according to the characteristics of each channel. With real world data, experiments are carried out to demonstrate both the degradation characteristics of the underwater images in different turbidities, and the competitive performance of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.neucom.2017.03.029
Neurocomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Underwater image,Degradation,Enhancement,Color constancy,Multi-scale Retinex,Hybrid filter
Color constancy,Computer vision,Visibility,Color space,Pattern recognition,Human visual system model,Trilateral filter,Communication channel,Artificial intelligence,Bilateral filter,Mathematics,Underwater
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
245
C
0925-2312
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
0.96
19
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
shu zhang1263.79
Ting Wang2263.79
Junyu Dong339377.68
Hui Yu412821.50