Research of polarization imaging detection method for water surface target in foggy weather

Abstract

According to problems of the intensity imaging target detection on water surface in foggy weather such as the indistinction of the target and greatly loss of the target detail, a target detection method based on the target polarization characteristics for water surface target in foggy weather is proposed in this paper. To validate the method’s effectiveness, the indoor experiment is performed by using the simulation environment in foggy weather and the outdoor experiment is performed by using the water surface real fog environment. A lot of different intensity images and polarization images are got and then analysed and compared. The experimental results demonstrate that the polarization imaging detection can effectively obtain the polarization information of targets on water surface, and we can detect the water surface targets in foggy weather by polarization information retrieving and the target information restoring.