Chinese Optics, Volume. 15, Issue 4, 689(2022)

Brightness correction and color restoration of seabed image obtained by active optical detection

Rong-tao LIU and Jia-hang LIU*
Author Affiliations
  • College of Astronautics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
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    Relative distribution of illuminance under vertical illumination of the point light source . (a) Schematic of vertical illumination of the ideal point light source and (b) schematic of light intensity attenuation
    Schematic diagram of seabed active optical imaging
    Underwater optical image of a uniform seafloor illuminated by the point light source
    Each channel of the reference image and their brightness fitting surface (a)−(c) red, green, blue channels of the reference image; (d)−(f) 3D top view of the red, green and blue channels; (g)−(i) fitting surface of the red, green, blue channels
    Individual brightness compensation for each channel of the reference image (a)−(c) Degree of compensation of the red, green and blue channels; (d)−(f) compensated red, green and blue single channel images
    The compensation process of the image in the same batch with reference image correction parameters. (a)−(c) Original gray images of the red, green and blue channels, (d)−(f) compensated images of the three channels
    Comparison of image enhancement with different pre-processing methods. (a) Pre-compensation image; (b)−(f) compensated results with Gray world, the proposed pre-processing method, MSR, Gray world + MSR, and the proposed pre-processing method + MSR methods
    Comparison of correction results of the underwater image processed by different algorithms. (a) MSR; (b) CLAHE; (c) RCP; (d) RWCGC; (e) UWCNN; (f) The proposed method
    Comparison of underwater image enhancement processed by different algorithms. (a) Original images; (b)−(g) the results obtained by MSR, CLAHE, RCP, RWCGC, UWCNN and the proposed method
    • Table 1. Quartic polynomial fitting parameters of the gray surface of each channel of the reference image

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      Table 1. Quartic polynomial fitting parameters of the gray surface of each channel of the reference image

      参数R通道G通道B通道
      a0019.2546.3250.18
      a10−0.10060.42080.4696
      a01−0.11520.39040.4299
      a201.005×10−3−4.915×10−4−7.192×10−4
      a111.038×10−3−6.395×10−4−8.548×10−4
      a021.002×10−3−4.785×10−4−6.328×10−4
      a30−2.241×10−61.353×10−76.774×10−7
      a21−1.584×10−6−2.121×10−7−1.141×10−7
      a12−7.252×10−72.581×10−63.145×10−6
      a03−2.75×10−6−8.219×10−7−5.752×10−7
      a401.391×10−9−8.548×10−10−1.382×10−9
      a313.485×10−103.321×10−94.136×10−9
      a222.072×10−9−4.899×10−9−6.476×10−9
      a13−1.332×10−94.571×10−101.053×10−9
      a042.382×10−93.993×10−107.139×10−11
    • Table 2. Objective image quality evaluation results of the reference image and images processed by different algorithms

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      Table 2. Objective image quality evaluation results of the reference image and images processed by different algorithms

      指标参考图像MSRCLAHERCPRWCGCUWCNNOurs
      注:加粗字体为每行最优值。
      UIQM0.93223.8092.31933.35353.15081.42384.0546
      UCIQE20.398824.981325.617324.043328.784721.454628.2705
    • Table 3. Objective image quality evaluation results of the first column of Fig. 9 processed by different algorithms

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      Table 3. Objective image quality evaluation results of the first column of Fig. 9 processed by different algorithms

      指标图9第一列原图 MSRCLAHERCPRWCGCUWCNNOurs
      注:加粗字体为每行最优值。
      UIQM1.01473.85572.99082.69693.64443.02114.5062
      UCIQE18.257528.071324.380222.439729.377821.901729.8468
    • Table 4. Objective image quality evaluation indexes of the second column of Fig. 9 processed by different algorithms

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      Table 4. Objective image quality evaluation indexes of the second column of Fig. 9 processed by different algorithms

      指标图9第二列原图 MSRCLAHERCPRWCGCUWCNNOurs
      注:加粗字体为每行最优值
      UIQM1.01473.85572.99082.69693.64443.02114.5583
      UCIQE20.556127.670927.543924.287729.077820.952329.5887
    • Table 5. Objective image quality evaluation indexes of the third column of Fig. 9 processed by different algorithms

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      Table 5. Objective image quality evaluation indexes of the third column of Fig. 9 processed by different algorithms

      图9第三列原图 MSRCLAHERCPRWCGCUWCNNOurs
      注:加粗字体为每行最优值
      UIQM0.67393.71422.83592.46113.121462.61834.3095
      UCIQE20.031228.139225.583123.894329.0996 22.886829.1635
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    Category: Original Article

    Received: Dec. 6, 2021

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    Published Online: Sep. 6, 2022

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    DOI:10.37188/CO.2021-0211

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