Medium Transmission Map Matters for Learning to Restore Real-World Underwater Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09414v1
• Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 16:13:52 GMT
• Title: Medium Transmission Map Matters for Learning to Restore Real-World Underwater Images
• Authors: Yan Kai, Liang Lanyue, Zheng Ziqiang, Wang Guoqing, Yang Yang
• Abstract summary: We introduce the media transmission map as guidance to assist in image enhancement. The proposed method can achieve advanced results of 22.6 dB on the challenging Test-R90 with an impressive 30 times faster than the existing models.
• Score: 3.0980025155565376
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Underwater visual perception is essentially important for underwater exploration, archeology, ecosystem and so on. The low illumination, light reflections, scattering, absorption and suspended particles inevitably lead to the critically degraded underwater image quality, which causes great challenges on recognizing the objects from the underwater images. The existing underwater enhancement methods that aim to promote the underwater visibility, heavily suffer from the poor image restoration performance and generalization ability. To reduce the difficulty of underwater image enhancement, we introduce the media transmission map as guidance to assist in image enhancement. We formulate the interaction between the underwater visual images and the transmission map to obtain better enhancement results. Even with simple and lightweight network configuration, the proposed method can achieve advanced results of 22.6 dB on the challenging Test-R90 with an impressive 30 times faster than the existing models. Comprehensive experimental results have demonstrated the superiority and potential on underwater perception. Paper's code is privoded on: https://github.com/GroupG-yk/MTUR-Net

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