Single Image Marine Snow Removal based on a Supervised Median Filtering Scheme

Fahimeh Farhadifard, Martin Radolko, Uwe Freiherr von Lukas

2017

Abstract

Underwater image processing has attracted a lot of attention due to the special difficulties at capturing clean and high quality images in this medium. Blur, haze, low contrast and color cast are the main degradations. In an underwater image noise is mostly considered as an additive noise (e.g. sensor noise), although the visibility of underwater scenes is distorted by another source, termed marine snow. This signal disturbs image processing methods such as enhancement and segmentation. Therefore removing marine snow can improve image visibility while helping advanced image processing approaches such as background subtraction to yield better results. In this article, we propose a simple but effective filter to eliminate these particles from single underwater images. It consists of different steps which adapt the filter to fit the characteristics of marine snow the best. Our experimental results show the success of our algorithm at outperforming the existing approaches by effectively removing this phenomenon and preserving the edges as much as possible.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Farhadifard F., Radolko M. and Freiherr von Lukas U. (2017). Single Image Marine Snow Removal based on a Supervised Median Filtering Scheme . In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-225-7, pages 280-287. DOI: 10.5220/0006261802800287

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp17,
author={Fahimeh Farhadifard and Martin Radolko and Uwe Freiherr von Lukas},
title={Single Image Marine Snow Removal based on a Supervised Median Filtering Scheme},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={280-287},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006261802800287},
isbn={978-989-758-225-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)
TI - Single Image Marine Snow Removal based on a Supervised Median Filtering Scheme
SN - 978-989-758-225-7
AU - Farhadifard F.
AU - Radolko M.
AU - Freiherr von Lukas U.
PY - 2017
SP - 280
EP - 287
DO - 10.5220/0006261802800287