Polarimetric underwater image recovery for color image with crosstalk compensation

In underwater color imaging, the scattering media could cause image blurring and color distortion, which are the two main problems of image degradation. In this paper, we propose a color image recovery method to solve these two problems by considering the crosstalk effects between the RGB channels during estimating the transmittances in RGB channels. The experimental results in turbid water with different colors (blue, green and yellow) show that our method can simultaneously enhance the image contrast and reduce the color distortion to realize the clear underwater vision, which is attributed to the proper estimation of the transmittances in RGB channels by compensating the crosstalk effects.