• Anamika Tiwari
• Krishna Raj

The image taken underwater is degrade due to various effects like absorption and scattering of light in medium. These effect are because of the suspended particles that leads to absorption and scattering of light during image formation process. To overcome this issue, different image enhancement technique is used to get better quality of the degraded image. Image fusion is one of the most useful technique which is commonly used to enhance the hazy and degraded image. To reduce the haziness a new effective method is proposed in this paper that use white balancing and image fusion along with gamma correction on the same image, the novelty of this technique is the hierarchy in which processing is done. First, input image is processed by white balancing then its sharpening is done and the output is again processed by gamma correction. This same process is done again but instead of sharpening, contrast stretching is used and the two resultant images is processed through image fusion technique which gives better and enhanced image. The software used for this enhancement method is MATLAB and results are verified on the image quality parameters.

Image enhancement, white balancing, image sharpening, contrast stretching, gamma correction and image fusion.

"Underwater Image Enhancement using Hybridized Concept of White balancing and Image Fusion ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.445-450, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906U97.pdf

"Underwater Image Enhancement using Hybridized Concept of White balancing and Image Fusion ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp445-450, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906U97.pdf