Underwater Imaging Based on LF and Polarization

Abstract

The underwater image restoration based on polarization information has achieved good results in improving the image quality in scattering media. However, the previous methods are difficult to obtain the true distribution of degree of polarization in the scene. In this paper, we combine synthetic aperture imaging with polarimetric imaging, and propose a method for retrieving radiation of object based on the degree of polarization and intensity of backscattering at the multi-view image. In addition, compared with the previous methods, the proposed method can achieve simultaneous acquisition of four-dimensional light field information and polarization information, effectively increasing the information dimension obtained by single imaging. In order to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method, we have established a relevant experimental platform and compared with the experimental results of the previous methods, and obtained the expected experimental results.

Keywords

• Synthetic aperture imaging
• polarimetric imaging
• underwater image restoration.