Journal
IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 323-327Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2018.2792050
Keywords
Color casts; color correction; color transfer; Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs); underwater image
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Funding
- National Key Basic Research Program of China [2014CB340403]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61771334]
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Underwater vision suffers from severe effects due to selective attenuation and scattering when light propagates through water. Such degradation not only affects the quality of underwater images, but limits the ability of vision tasks. Different from existing methods that either ignore the wavelength dependence on the attenuation or assume a specific spectral profile, we tackle color distortion problem of underwater images from a new view. In this letter, we propose a weakly supervised color transfer method to correct color distortion. The proposed method relaxes the need for paired underwater images for training and allows the underwater images being taken in unknown locations. Inspired by cycle-consistent adversarial networks, we design a multiterm loss function including adversarial loss, cycle consistency loss, and structural similarity index measure loss, which makes the content and structure of the outputs same as the inputs, meanwhile the color is similar to the images that were taken without the water. Experiments on underwater images captured under diverse scenes show that our method produces visually pleasing results, even outperforms the state-of-the-art methods. Besides, our method can improve the performance of vision tasks.
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