Restoration and Enhancement of Underwater Images Based on Bright Channel Prior

This paper proposed a new method of underwater images restoration and enhancement which was inspired by the dark channel prior in image dehazing field. Firstly, we proposed the bright channel prior of underwater environment. By estimating and rectifying the bright channel image, estimating the atmos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yakun Gao, Haibin Li, Shuhuan Wen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3141478