Abstract
Underwater images are affected by light scattering and absorption in the water. It usually faces challenges such as color distortion, loss of details, and low contrast. To address the above problems, this paper proposes a dual-color space color correction and histogram segmentation optimized strategy for underwater image enhancement. Specifically, this paper first calculates the quantile for adjusting the pixel distribution and performs histogram stretching to correct the image’s overall color. Then, a LAB color balancing strategy is designed to eliminate the color deviation resulting from the color correction process. Finally, histogram segmentation and adaptive pixel allocation methods are proposed to improve overall contrast. Experimental studies on three benchmark datasets for comparison with six state-of-the-art algorithms are conducted. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the mechanism proposed in this paper. Meanwhile, the proposed approach proves effective for key point and saliency detection. Additionally, the proposed approach exhibits promising results for images captured under challenging conditions such as low illumination, haze, and dust storms.
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This work was supported by Special projects in universities’ key fields of Guangdong Province (2023ZDZX3017), 2022 Tertiary Education Scientific research project of Guangzhou Municipal Education Bureau (202234607), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52371059) and (52101358).
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Dan xiang, Dengyu He and Pan Gao wrote the main manuscript text.
Huihua Wang, Chenkai Zhai and Qiang qu is mainly responsible for the simulation of the experiments.
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Xiang, D., He, D., Gao, P. et al. Dual-color space color correction and histogram segmentation optimized strategy for underwater image enhancement. Earth Sci Inform 17, 2347–2365 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-024-01279-6
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