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On the way to solve lighting problems in underwater imaging

A major obstacle to processing images of the ocean floor comes from the absorption and scattering effects of the light in the aquatic environment. Due to the absorption of the natural light, underwater vehicles often require artificial light sources attached to them to provide the adequate illumination. Unfortunately, these flashlights tend to illuminate the scene in a nonuniform fashion, and, as the vehicle moves, induce shadows in the scene. For this reason, the first step towards application of standard computer vision techniques to underwater imaging requires dealing first with these lighting problems. This paper analyses and compares existing methodologies to deal with low-contrast, nonuniform illumination in underwater image sequences. The reviewed techniques include: (i) study of the illumination-reflectance model, (ii) local histogram equalization, (iii) homomorphic filtering, and, (iv) subtraction of the illumination field. Several experiments on real data have been conducted to compare the different approaches

© OCEANS ’02 MTS/IEEE, 2002, vol. 2, p. 1018-1024

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Autor: García Campos, Rafael
Nicosevici, Tudor
Cufí i Solé, Xavier
Data: 2002
Resum: A major obstacle to processing images of the ocean floor comes from the absorption and scattering effects of the light in the aquatic environment. Due to the absorption of the natural light, underwater vehicles often require artificial light sources attached to them to provide the adequate illumination. Unfortunately, these flashlights tend to illuminate the scene in a nonuniform fashion, and, as the vehicle moves, induce shadows in the scene. For this reason, the first step towards application of standard computer vision techniques to underwater imaging requires dealing first with these lighting problems. This paper analyses and compares existing methodologies to deal with low-contrast, nonuniform illumination in underwater image sequences. The reviewed techniques include: (i) study of the illumination-reflectance model, (ii) local histogram equalization, (iii) homomorphic filtering, and, (iv) subtraction of the illumination field. Several experiments on real data have been conducted to compare the different approaches
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Cita: Garcia, R., Nicosevici, T., i Cufi, X. (2002). On the way to solve lighting problems in underwater imaging. OCEANS ’02 MTS/IEEE, 2, 1018-1024. Recuperat 20 maig 2010, a http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1192107
ISBN: 0-7803-7534-3
Accés al document: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/2343
Llenguatge: eng
Editor: IEEE
Col·lecció: Reproducció digital del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2002.1192107
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És part de: © OCEANS ’02 MTS/IEEE, 2002, vol. 2, p. 1018-1024
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Matèria: Imatges -- Processament
Imatge, Tècniques d’
Image processing
Imaging systems
Computer vision
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Títol: On the way to solve lighting problems in underwater imaging
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