Object identification in images acquired through underwater turbulent media

Md. Hasan Furhad; Murat Tahtali; Andrew Lambert

doi:10.1117/12.2325525

7 November 2018 Object identification in images acquired through underwater turbulent media

Md. Hasan Furhad, Murat Tahtali, Andrew Lambert

Proceedings Volume 10787, Environmental Effects on Light Propagation and Adaptive Systems; 107870I (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2325525
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2018, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

Images acquired through underwater turbulent media make the image processing tasks in image restoration and object identification challenging. Turbulence in water is associated with random fluctuations of temperature and salinity. These fluctuations are responsible for changing the refractive index, for attenuating illumination, imposing geometric distortions and space-variant blur on images, thus making object identification more difficult. In this paper, we propose a patch-wise deconvolution procedure for removing the space-variant blur from images for restoration purpose prior to resolving the object identification issue. The deconvolution procedure is aided with an image alignment procedure for obtaining better results. Next, an image segmentation algorithm based on fuzzy clustering is considered for object identification. Computational experiments are conducted using a real-world dataset to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.

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Md. Hasan Furhad, Murat Tahtali, and Andrew Lambert "Object identification in images acquired through underwater turbulent media", Proc. SPIE 10787, Environmental Effects on Light Propagation and Adaptive Systems, 107870I (7 November 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2325525

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