Enhanced imaging through turbid water based on quadrature lock-in discrimination and retinex aided by adaptive gamma function for illumination correction

Riffat Tehseen; Amjad Ali; Mithilesh Mane; Wenmin Ge; Yanlong Li; Zejun Zhang; Jing Xu

doi:10.3788/COL202321.101102

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 10, 101102(2023)

Enhanced imaging through turbid water based on quadrature lock-in discrimination and retinex aided by adaptive gamma function for illumination correction

Riffat Tehseen¹, Amjad Ali¹, Mithilesh Mane¹, Wenmin Ge¹, Yanlong Li¹, Zejun Zhang^1,2,3, and Jing Xu^1,2,3、*

Author Affiliations

¹Optical Communication Laboratory, Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan 316021, China

²Hainan Institute of Zhejiang University, Sanya 572000, China

³Key Laboratory of Ocean Observation-Imaging Testbed of Zhejiang Province, Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan 316021, China

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[2] Riffat Tehseen, Muhammad Shahzad, Mithilesh K. Mane, Amjad Ali, Zejun Zhang, Jing Xu.

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Paper Information

Category: Imaging Systems and Image Processing

Received: Mar. 5, 2023

Accepted: Jun. 9, 2023

Posted: Jun. 9, 2023

Published Online: Oct. 11, 2023

The Author Email: Jing Xu (jxu-optics@zju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202321.101102

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