• Harshitha R
• Mr. Saravana kumar

The images captured underwater normally experiences many obstacles in order to get a clear picture. Red colour will usually get disappeared under the water due to absorption as it has the highest wavelength that might leads to bluish or greenish image. Images will be blurred and poorly visible even because of the scattering effect. There exists some suspended particles inside the water which leads to the haziness in the image captured. In this paper, enhancement of images is by using a preprocessor followed by guided filter which preserves the edge factor using guidance image and later dark channel prior algorithm is used to remove the haziness and colour correction will be done which gives a clear contrasted image. The proposed technology will be carried out with the tool SPYDER (Python 3.5), Anaconda

guided filtering, dehazing, colour correction, underwater images, dark channel prior

"Enhancement of underwater images using DCP", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.533-537, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905798.pdf

"Enhancement of underwater images using DCP", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp533-537, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905798.pdf