Optics and Precision Engineering, Volume. 31, Issue 15, 2181(2023)

Sun glint suppression from sea surface based on polarization information

Congli ZHANG1, Junzhuo ZHOU1,2,3, Yuan ZONG1,2,3, Jia HAO1,2,3, and Yiting YU1,2,3、*
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  • 1Ningbo Institute of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Ningbo3503, China
  • 2School of Mechatronic Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an71007, China
  • 3Key Laboratory of Micro/Nano Systems for Aerospace (Ministry of Education), Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems of Shaanxi Province, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an710072, China
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    Sun glint interference seriously hinders the effective acquisition of object information in the remote sensing field. In this paper, a sun glint suppression method based on polarization information for UAV-borne platform was presented to realize all-weather and all-time detection of underwater military targets in a complex marine background. A light component decoupling model was constructed using the polarization characteristic difference between sun glint and object information light and an unsaturated image set was selected to solve the global polarization information of the scene. Then, the spatial distribution of sun glint polarization state was deduced based on the normalized reflectance of sun glint in a Muller matrix. Further, a source-submarine-detector polarization state transmission model was proposed to estimate the polarization degree of object information light; then, the water attenuation coefficient was used to correct the model according to the physics-based model for passive underwater imaging. Finally, a sun glint suppression method that is applicable to a wavy water surface was realized. The outdoor experimental results show that the region contrast and signal-to-noise ratio of sun glint suppression image are improved by 25.3% and 78.4%, respectively, compared with those of the 90° polarization image. Our method can effectively enhance the characteristics of submarine targets under the interference of sun glint, thus helping our country to better explore the sea.

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    Congli ZHANG, Junzhuo ZHOU, Yuan ZONG, Jia HAO, Yiting YU. Sun glint suppression from sea surface based on polarization information[J]. Optics and Precision Engineering, 2023, 31(15): 2181

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    Paper Information

    Category: Modern Applied Optics

    Received: Jan. 5, 2023

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Sep. 5, 2023

    The Author Email: YU Yiting (yyt@nwpu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.37188/OPE.20233115.2181

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