Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 59, Issue 4, 0410001(2022)

Multi-Turbidity Underwater Image Restoration Based on Neural Network and Polarization Imaging

Xinyuan Gui, Ran Zhang, Haoyuan Cheng, Lianbiao Tian, and Jinkui Chu*
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  • Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Technology and System of Liaoning Province, School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian , Liaoning 116024, China
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    Underwater imaging is one of the most commonly used methods for ocean exploration, and a growing number of studies have shown that polarization is the key to the underwater creatures having vision in low illumination. In this paper, a multi-turbidity underwater image recovery method based on deep learning and polarization imaging is proposed. Multiple turbidity underwater polarization data sets are obtained by capturing images of clean water and underwater polarization images with different turbidity. A small size neural network is proposed to better learn the mapping relation between underwater polarization information under different turbidity and clear underwater images. A sliding window superposition method with different steps is proposed for different circumstances. The results show that the polarization method proposed in this paper can effectively recover the underwater image, and the peak signal to noise ratio recovered under different turbidity is 47.39% higher than that of the original image on average. The proposed method combining deep learning and polarization imaging technology can restore underwater images in multi-turbidity environment and overcome the problem of poor restoration effect of ordinary underwater images.

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    Xinyuan Gui, Ran Zhang, Haoyuan Cheng, Lianbiao Tian, Jinkui Chu. Multi-Turbidity Underwater Image Restoration Based on Neural Network and Polarization Imaging[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2022, 59(4): 0410001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Dec. 21, 2020

    Accepted: Mar. 15, 2021

    Published Online: Jan. 25, 2022

    The Author Email: Chu Jinkui (chujk@lut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP202259.0410001

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