Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 42, Issue 24, 2401009(2022)

Suppression Technology for Saturated Water Surface Glint Based on Polarization Characteristics

Jinghua Zhang, Yan Zhang*, Zhiguang Shi, Biao Li, Yu Zhang, Feng Ling, Yi Zhang, and Di Liu
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  • National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Automatic Target Recognition, College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, Hunan , China
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    Flow chart of water surface saturation glint suppression algorithm
    Schematic diagram of reflection on water surface
    Light wave transmission process at air-water interface
    Main equipment of simulation experiment. (a) Polarization detector; (b) water tank; (c) fluorescent lamp
    Four channel focal plane polarization image captured by polarization detector
    Perpendicular polarization images and polarization degree images before and after restoration with complete polarization decomposition method. (a) Saturated perpendicular polarization image; (b) restored perpendicular polarization image; (c) saturated polarization degree image; (d) restored polarization degree image
    Suppression results of water saturation glint. (a) Direct suppression result of saturated vertical direction image; (b) suppression result after vertical direction image restoration
    Remote controlled submarine
    Four-channel split-focus plane glint images captured by polarization detector. (a) Scene 1; (b) scene 2; (c) scene 3
    Perpendicular polarization images. (a) Scene 1; (b) scene 2; (c) scene 3
    Pseudo color images corresponding to perpendicular polarization images. (a) Scene 1; (b) scene 2; (c) scene 3
    Gray histograms corresponding to perpendicular polarization images. (a) Scene 1; (b) scene 2; (c) scene 3
    Glint suppression results using saturated perpendicular polarization images. (a) Scene 1; (b) scene 2; (c) scene 3
    Glint suppression results after restoring saturated perpendicular polarization images. (a) Scene 1; (b) scene 2; (c) scene 3
    • Table 1. Quantitative comparisons of contrast and local signal-to-noise ratio between target and background

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      Table 1. Quantitative comparisons of contrast and local signal-to-noise ratio between target and background

      Glint stationImage typeCRLSN
      Scene 1Scene 2Scene 3Scene 1Scene 2Scene 3
      Before glint suppression0° image0.00280.01660.0238-15.6125-7.2902-4.4086
      45° image0.02290.03970.0271-7.2584-4.3801-4.9193
      90° image0.08080.08040.0445-2.4557-2.1119-3.6459
      135° image0.02130.03210.0284-7.0451-5.0115-4.7969
      After glint suppressionSaturated image0.18880.18260.14750.8711-0.0800-1.0346
      Restored image0.19920.18290.19311.43260.25751.1752
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    Jinghua Zhang, Yan Zhang, Zhiguang Shi, Biao Li, Yu Zhang, Feng Ling, Yi Zhang, Di Liu. Suppression Technology for Saturated Water Surface Glint Based on Polarization Characteristics[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2022, 42(24): 2401009

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    Paper Information

    Category: Atmospheric Optics and Oceanic Optics

    Received: Jun. 1, 2022

    Accepted: Jul. 25, 2022

    Published Online: Dec. 14, 2022

    The Author Email: Zhang Yan (atrthreefire@sina.com)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202242.2401009

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