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There are many similarities between underwater images and low-light images, such as image blur and color distortion, but for such problems, there are few unified methods that can solve these problems well. This paper proposes a method based on multi-scale retinex color recovery (MSRCR) and color correction. First, color channel transfer (CCT) is used to preprocess the image. Then, a method of MSRCR and guided filtering is proposed to remove image fog. Finally, the statistical colorless slant correction fusion smoothing filter method is proposed to enhance the image, which improves the color contrast and sharpness of the image. Experiments have proved that the method proposed in this paper is effective in image de-hazing and enhancement.
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Thanks to my teachers and classmates for their help in the paper writing; it was with their encouragement and guidance that I finally finished this paper. The authors acknowledge this paper was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2017YFC0804406. We declare that we do not have any commercial or associative interest that represents a conflict of interest in connection with the work submitted. All the authors who participated in the writing of the manuscript and the review committee of our institution (Shandong University of Science and Technology) expressed their oral consent to the submission of the manuscript.
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Liu, K., Liang, Y. Dual-purpose method for de-hazing and enhancement of underwater and low-light images. Machine Vision and Applications 32, 107 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-021-01230-5
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