Title
Locally Adaptive Color Correction for Underwater Image Dehazing and Matching.
Abstract
Underwater images are known to be strongly deteriorated by a combination of wavelength-dependent light attenuation and scattering. This results in complex color casts that depend both on the scene depth map and on the light spectrum. Color transfer, which is a technique of choice to counterbalance color casts, assumes stationary casts, defined by global parameters, and is therefore not directly applicable to the locally variable color casts encountered in underwater scenarios. To fill this gap, this paper introduces an original fusion-based strategy to exploit color transfer while tuning the color correction locally, as a function of the light attenuation level estimated from the red channel. The Dark Channel Prior (DCP) [16] is then used to restore the color compensated image, by inverting the simplified Koschmieder light transmission model, as for outdoor dehazing. Our technique enhances image contrast in a quite effective manner and also supports accurate transmission map estimation. Our extensive experiments also show that our color correction strongly improves the effectiveness of local keypoints matching(1).
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/CVPRW.2017.136
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Communication channel,Color balance,Color correction,Artificial intelligence,Image restoration,Depth map,Attenuation,Color normalization,Underwater
Conference
2017
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
2160-7508
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
23
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Codruta Orniana Ancuti130420.86
Cosmin Ancuti231422.39
Christophe De Vleeschouwer339244.86
Rafael Garcia435244.80