• Vikas Varshney
• Savita
• Neha Sharma
• Manoj Sharma

The underwater images are usually degraded due to the medium scattering and absorption. An effective technique based on multiscale fusion to enhance and dehaze such images has been introduced in the paper. The two images derived from white-balancing and color compensating of the original image are processed for the fusion. The associated weight maps of derived images are defined for transition of color contrast and edges to the output image. The multiscale fusion technique removes the artifacts in the low frequency components of the reconstructed image due to sharp weight map transitions. PCQI and UCIQE are used to evaluate the quality of the underwater image which proves that the proposed algorithm improves the accuracy of various image processing applications. The evaluated results also reveal that the algorithm is reasonably independent of the camera settings.

Underwater image, gamma correction, fusion, white-balance, weight maps

"AN EFFECTIVE APPROACH USING THE PRINCIPLE OF FUSION TO DEHAZE THE UNDERWATER IMAGE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.105-109, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCO06022.pdf

"AN EFFECTIVE APPROACH USING THE PRINCIPLE OF FUSION TO DEHAZE THE UNDERWATER IMAGE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp105-109, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCO06022.pdf