Title
Unveiling Optical Properties in Underwater Images
Abstract
The appearance of underwater scenes is highly governed by the optical properties of the water (attenuation and scattering). However, most research effort in physics-based underwater image reconstruction methods is placed on devising image priors for estimating scene transmission, and less on estimating the optical properties. This limits the quality of the results. This work focuses on robust estimation of the water properties. First, as opposed to previous methods that used fixed values for attenuation, we estimate it from the color distribution in the image. Second, we estimate the veiling-light color from objects in the scene, contrary to looking at background pixels. We conduct an extensive qualitative and quantitative evaluation of our method vs. most recent methods on several datasets. As our estimation is more robust our method provides superior results including on challenging scenes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ICCP48838.2020.9105267
2020 IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Computational Photography,Image Restoration,Image Color Analysis
Conference
2164-9774
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-5231-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yael Bekerman100.34
Shai Avidan23291208.12
Tali Treibitz317813.09