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Accurate object recognition in the underwater images using learning algorithms and texture features

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Underwater image processing is very challenging due to its environmental conditions and poor sunlight. Images captured from the ocean using autonomous vehicles are often non-uniformly illuminated and contain noise due to the underlying environment. Object recognition is a challenging task under water due to the variation in the environment, target shape and orientation. Traditional algorithms based on spatial information may not lead to accurate segmentation as the intensity variation is often less in underwater images. Texture information representing the characteristics of the object is needed. Statistical features like autocorrelation, sum average, sum variance and sum entropy were extracted. These were fed as input to learning algorithms and training was done to effectively classify the object of interest and background. Chain coding was further applied for object recognition. The proposed methodology achieved a maximum classification accuracy of 96%.

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This research work was supported by the Naval Research Board (Grant No. NRB-295/SSB/12-13), DRDO, New Delhi, India. The authors thank NIOT, Chennai, India for providing the necessary dataset. The authors would like to acknowledge Earth System science Organization NIOT (ESSO-NIOT) and Ministry of earth sciences for their support. The authors also thank Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science for their continual support.

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Srividhya, K., Ramya, M.M. Accurate object recognition in the underwater images using learning algorithms and texture features. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 25679–25695 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4459-6

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