Abstract
Underwater captured images are usually degraded by low contrast, hazy, and blurry due to absorbing and scattering, which limits their analyses and applications. To address these problems, a red channel prior guided variational framework is proposed based on the complete underwater image formation model (UIFM). Unlike most of the existing methods that only consider the direct transmission and backscattering components, we additionally include forward scattering component into the UIFM. In the proposed variational framework, we successfully incorporate the normalized total variation item and sparse prior knowledge of blur kernel together. In addition, we perform the estimation of blur kernel by varying image resolution in a coarse-to-fine manner to avoid local minima. Moreover, for solving the generated non-smooth optimization problem, we employ the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to accelerate the whole progress. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method has a good performance on dehazing and deblurring. Extensive qualitative and quantitative comparisons further validate its superiority against the other state-of-the-art algorithms. The code is available online at: <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://github.com/Hou-Guojia/UNTV</uri>
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