In underwater environments, the scattering and absorption phenomena affect the propagation of light, degrading the quality of captured images. In this work, the authors present a method based on a physical model of light propagation that takes into account the most significant effects to image degradation: absorption, scattering, and backscattering. The proposed method uses statistical priors to restore the visual quality of the images acquired in typical underwater scenarios.
['Paulo Drews', 'Erickson R. Nascimento', 'Silvia Silva da Costa Botelho', 'Mario Fernando Montenegro Campos']
Underwater Depth Estimation and Image Restoration Based on Single Images