Implementation of Underwater Image Enhancement Technique

Authors(2) :-Priyanka P. Madhumatake, Dr. Pankaj Agrawal

Underwater images mainly suffer from the problem of poor color contrast and poor visibility. These problems occurred due to the scattering of light and refraction of light while entering from rarer to denser medium. Scattering causes the blurring of light and reduces the color contrast. These effects of water on underwater images are only not due the nature water but also because of the organisms and other material present in the water. Image enhancement is the process of improving the quality of the input image so that it would be easily understood by viewers in the future. Image enhancement improves the information content of the image and alters the visual impact of the image on the observer. Image enhancement intensifies the features of images. It accentuates the image features like edges, contrast to build display of photographs more useful for examination and study. Active range of the chosen features of images is amplified by enhancement so that they can be detected simply. Many techniques and methods are established by researchers to solve the problem of underwater image enhancement. In this work we have tried to implement the contrast stretching and the CLAHE image enhancement techniques on underwater images in MATLAB and compared the result on the basis of specific parameters.

Authors and Affiliations

Priyanka P. Madhumatake
Student, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, G.H. R.A.E. T. Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Dr. Pankaj Agrawal
Head , Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, G.H. R.A.E. T. Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Text Underwater Image, Image Enhancement Method, Contrast Stretching, CLAHE

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 3 | Issue 6 | July-August 2017
Date of Publication : 2017-08-31
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 351-358
Manuscript Number : IJSRST173671
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X

Cite This Article :

Priyanka P. Madhumatake, Dr. Pankaj Agrawal, " Implementation of Underwater Image Enhancement Technique", International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Volume 3, Issue 6, pp.351-358, July-August-2017.
Journal URL : https://ijsrst.com/IJSRST173671
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