Abstract

Underwater images frequently suffer from color casts and poor contrast, due to the absorption and scattering of light in water medium. To address these two degradation issues, we propose an underwater image restoration method based on feature priors inspired by underwater scene prior. Concretely, we first develop a robust model to estimate the background light according to feature priors of flatness, hue, and brightness, which can effectively relieve color distortion. Next, we compensate the red channel of color corrected image to revise the transmission map of it. Coupled with the structure-guided filter, the coarse transmission map is refined. The refined transmission map preserves the edge information while improving the contrast. Extensive experiments on diverse degradation scenes demonstrate that our method achieves superior performance against several state-of-the-art methods.

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