Low-illumination image enhancement based on physical model

doi:10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2015.08.2301

Journal of Computer Applications ›› 2015, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (8): 2301-2304.DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2015.08.2301

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Low-illumination image enhancement based on physical model

WANG Xiaoyuan^1,2, ZHANG Hongying^1,2, WU Yadong³, LIU Yan^1,2

1. School of Information Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang Sichuan 621010, China;
2. Robot Technology Used for Special Environment Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province (Southwest University of Science and Technology), Mianyang Sichuan 621010, China;
3. School of Computer Science and Technology, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang Sichuan 621010, China

Received:2015-03-01 Revised:2015-04-19 Online:2015-08-10 Published:2015-08-14

基于物理模型的低照度图像增强算法

王小元^1,2, 张红英^1,2, 吴亚东³, 刘言^1,2

1. 西南科技大学信息工程学院, 四川绵阳 621010;
2. 特殊环境机器人技术四川省重点实验室(西南科技大学), 四川绵阳 621010;
3. 西南科技大学计算机科学与技术学院, 四川绵阳 621010

通讯作者: 张红英(1976-),女,四川德阳人,教授,博士,主要研究方向:图像分析与处理、运动目标检测与跟踪,zhy0838@163.com
作者简介:王小元(1989-),女,山西大同人,硕士研究生,主要研究方向:图像处理、模式识别; 吴亚东(1979-),男,河南舞阳人,教授,博士,CCF会员,主要研究方向:图像处理及可视化; 刘言(1987-),男,四川广安人,硕士研究生,主要研究方向:图像处理。
基金资助:
中国科学院西部之光人才培养计划项目(科发人教字(2012)179号);特殊环境机器人技术四川省重点实验室开放基金资助项目(13zxtk05)。

Abstract

Abstract:

Since a low-illumination image will become a pseudo fog map after inversion, and the concentration of this pseudo fog map is decided by illumination rather than depth of field, a low-illumination image enhancement method based on physical model was proposed, which provided a fast and accurate method to estimate the transmittance. Firstly, dark channel prior was used to estimate atmospheric light value of pseudo fog map and the transmittance was estimated according to the illumination. Secondly, the image without fog was restored based on the atmospheric scattering mode. Finally, the enhanced image was obtained by inversing the image without fog. Furthermore, the clear image was got by making detail compensation on the enhanced image. A large number of experiments show that the proposed algorithm is faster and performs well without losing information compared with the existing algorithms including the enhancement algorithms based on dark channel prior, defogging techniques and the multi-scale Retinex with color restoration, meanwhile it can improve the efficiency of image analysis and recognition system.

Key words: low-illumination, image enhancement, atmospheric scattering model, dehazing, dark channel prior

摘要：

针对低照度图像反转后为与雾天图像相似的伪雾图,其雾的浓度由光照情况而非景深决定这一特点,提出一种基于物理模型的低照度图像增强算法。该算法根据光照情况给出一种更加准确且快速的新方法估计伪雾图的透射率。首先,采用暗原色先验规律对伪雾图的环境光值进行估计,并基于光照情况对透射率进行估计;然后,基于大气散射模型还原出无雾图像;最后,对无雾图像反转得到低照度图像的增强结果,并对该结果进行细节补偿得到最终的增强图像。大量实验表明,与基于暗原色先验的增强算法、基于去雾技术的增强算法及带色彩恢复的多尺度Retinex算法相比,该算法处理效率更高且效果良好,信息不会丢失,可有效提高图像分析识别等系统的工作效率。

关键词: 低照度, 图像增强, 大气散射模型, 去雾, 暗原色先验

CLC Number:

TP391.413

WANG Xiaoyuan, ZHANG Hongying, WU Yadong, LIU Yan. Low-illumination image enhancement based on physical model[J]. Journal of Computer Applications, 2015, 35(8): 2301-2304.

王小元, 张红英, 吴亚东, 刘言. 基于物理模型的低照度图像增强算法[J]. 计算机应用, 2015, 35(8): 2301-2304.

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