Generalization of the Dark Channel Prior for Single Image Restoration
Images degraded by light scattering and absorption, such as hazy, sandstorm, and underwater images, often suffer color distortion and low contrast because of light traveling through turbid media. In order to enhance and restore such images, we first estimate ambient light using the depth-dependent c...
| Veröffentlicht in: | IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. - 1992. - 27(2018), 6 vom: 25. Juni, Seite 2856-2868 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article |
| Zusammenfassung: | Images degraded by light scattering and absorption, such as hazy, sandstorm, and underwater images, often suffer color distortion and low contrast because of light traveling through turbid media. In order to enhance and restore such images, we first estimate ambient light using the depth-dependent color change. Then, via calculating the difference between the observed intensity and the ambient light, which we call the scene ambient light differential, scene transmission can be estimated. Additionally, adaptive color correction is incorporated into the image formation model (IFM) for removing color casts while restoring contrast. Experimental results on various degraded images demonstrate the new method outperforms other IFM-based methods subjectively and objectively. Our approach can be interpreted as a generalization of the common dark channel prior (DCP) approach to image restoration, and our method reduces to several DCP variants for different special cases of ambient lighting and turbid medium conditions |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Completed 30.07.2018 Date Revised 30.07.2018 published: Print Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1941-0042 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/TIP.2018.2813092 |