Underwater image enhancement by wavelength compensation and dehazing

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1756-1769

  Chiang, John Y ^a   Chen, Ying Ching ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Color change; image dehazing; light scattering; underwater image; wavelength compensation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIGHT SOURCE; ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING; BACKGROUND LIGHT; COLOR BALANCE; COLOR CHANGES; COLOR CHANNELS; COLOR FIDELITY; COLOR PATCHES; DEPTH MAP; IMAGE CAPTURING; IMAGE DEHAZING; IMAGE SCENE; LIGHT INCIDENT; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT TRAVELING; LIGHT WAVELENGTHS; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; PROPAGATION PATHS; RESIDUAL ENERGY; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS; UNDERWATER IMAGE; UNDERWATER PROPAGATION; WATER DEPTH; YOUTUBE;

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SOURCES; UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY; VISIBILITY; WAVELENGTH; WEBSITES;

DEMULSIFICATION;

WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHTING; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER;

EID: 84859083376     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2179666     Document Type: Article

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