Journal of Jilin University(Engineering and Technology Edition) ›› 2021, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (4): 1396-1404.doi: 10.13229/j.cnki.jdxbgxb20200431

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Underwater image restoration based on multi-scale attention fusion and convolutional neural network

De-xing WANG(),Ruo-you WU,Hong-chun YUAN(),Peng GONG,Yue WANG   

  1. School of Information,Shanghai Ocean University,Shanghai 201306,China
  • Received:2020-06-17 Online:2021-07-01 Published:2021-07-14
  • Contact: Hong-chun YUAN E-mail:dxwang@shou.edu.cn;hcyuan@shou.edu.cn

Abstract:

Due to the absorption and scattering of light by suspended particles in water, the original underwater image has a low definition, fuzzy details, and color distortion. To solve these problems, an underwater image recovery method based on multi-scale attention fusion and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is proposed. First,the Space Channel (SC) module is constructed by using the attention mechanism. Then, by adding the SC module into the multi-scale feature extraction, the information in the image can be extracted effectively, and the image sharpness and color correction can be realized. Finally, the Laplacian operator is used to construct the multiple loss functions to further enhance the detail features of the image, so that the recovered image quality can be significantly improved. The method in this paper is compared with other methods qualitatively and quantitatively on the two test sets. The experimental results show that this method is superior to other methods in image sharpness, detail enhancement, and color correction.

Key words: information processing technology, underwater image recovery, attention mechanism, Laplacian operator, convolutional neural network

CLC Number: 

  • TP391.4

Fig.1

Architecture diagram of model"

Fig.2

SC Module"

Fig.3

Channel attention and spatial attention modules"

Table 1

PSNR and SSIM values of MSCANet(without LDDL) and MSCANet(with LDDL) on test set A"

方 法PSNRSSIM
MSCANet(无LDDL26.29370.9252
MSCANet(有LDDL26.33810.9278

Table 2

Visible edge fractions and information entropy of MSCANet(without LDDL) and MSCANet(with LDDL) on test set B"

方 法rˉσIE
MSCANet(无LDDL1.82370.00787.3965
MSCANet(有LDDL2.03500.00437.4115

Table 3

Experimental results by MSCANet and CNN on test set A"

方 法PSNRSSIM
MSCANet26.33810.9278
CNN26.14390.9198

Table 4

Experimental results by MSCANet and CNN on test set B"

方 法SSEQ 27NIQE 28

OG?

IQA 29

UIQM 30
MSCANet21.03295.14190.84155.1436
CNN22.16635.25000.75874.6905

Fig.4

Qualitative comparison of different methods on test set A"

Table 5

The quantitative comparison of different methods on test set A"

MetricsPSNRSSIMMetricsPSNRSSIM
CLAHE16.47850.6227文献[1616.28420.7079
文献[1019.15300.8096文献[1722.35310.8366
文献[1418.08820.7351文献[2125.66450.8814
文献[1517.90680.7330本文26.33810.9278

Fig.5

Qualitative comparison of different methods on test set B"

Table 6

Quantitative comparison of different methods on test set B"

MetricsSSEQNIQEOG?IQAUIQM
CLAHE28.67486.13070.79164.2140
文献[1022.64635.26260.80255.0043
文献[1421.11025.15310.83925.0128
文献[1521.30225.31240.82684.5545
文献[1632.21324.95410.61305.1146
文献[1726.30407.15620.80164.7900
文献[2126.58955.21950.74214.8943
本文21.03295.14190.84155.1436
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