In-Situ Joint Light and Medium Estimation for Underwater Color Restoration

2021 IEEE/CVF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION WORKSHOPS (ICCVW 2021)(2021)

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The majority of Earth's surface is situated in the deep sea and thus remains deprived of natural light. Such adverse underwater environments have to be explored with powerful camera-light systems. In order to restore the colors in images taken by such systems, we need to jointly estimate physically-meaningful optical parameters of the light as well as the water column. We thus propose an integrated in-situ estimation approach and a complementary surface texture recovery strategy, which also removes shadows as a by-product. As we operate in a scattering medium under inhomogeneous lighting conditions, the volumetric effects are difficult to capture in closed-form solutions. Hence, we leverage the latest progress in Monte Carlo-based differentiable ray tracing that becomes tractable through recent GPU RTX-hardware acceleration. Evaluations on synthetic data and in a water tank show that we can estimate physically meaningful parameters, which enables color restoration. The approaches could also be employed to other camera-light systems (AUV, robot, car, endoscope) operating either in the dark, in fog - or - underwater.
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situ joint light,medium estimation,underwater color restoration,Earth's surface,deep sea,natural light,adverse underwater environments,powerful camera-light systems,physically-meaningful optical parameters,water column,in-situ estimation approach,complementary surface texture recovery strategy,scattering medium,inhomogeneous lighting conditions,volumetric effects,closed-form solutions,Monte Carlo-based differentiable ray,recent GPU RTX-hardware acceleration,water tank show,physically meaningful parameters
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