Underwater Image Enhancement via Piecewise Color Correction and Dual Prior Optimized Contrast Enhancement

Due to the absorption and scattering of light, underwater captured images often face serious quality degradation issues. In this letter, we propose to cope with the aforementioned issues via piecewise color correction and dual prior optimized contrast enhancement. Specifically, we first present the piecewise color correction method using the maximum mean and two gain factors to correct the color cast of each color channel. Then, we propose a dual prior optimized contrast enhancement method, which relies on the spatial and texture priors to decompose the base layer and detail layer of the V channel in HSV color space. Meanwhile, we employ different enhancement strategies in different layers to enhance the…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Award: 62171252
• CP
  China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

  Award: 2021M701903