Image enhancement of shadow region based on polarization imaging

Mohamed Reda, Linghao Shen, Yongqiang Zhao

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Abstract

Object of shadow area suffers from low contrast and noise, causing difficulties for object detection and recognition. However, conventional image enhancement methods perform inefficiently in severer shadow conditions, where the contrast enhancement is not obvious, or the noise amplification is huge. In fact, Polarization information can be preserved even in very heavy shadows. Combining the polarization information with the intensity and chromaticity information of the original image can overcome the above problems. This paper proposes a method of object enhancement in shadow based on polarization imaging. Firstly, this paper puts forward degree of polarization (DOP) Invariance Prior and DOP-Chromatic Consistency Prior. Then, based on these two priors, a feedback image enhancement method based on polarization imaging is proposed. Experiments show that the proposed method is superior to the other conventional image enhancement methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition and Computer Vision 2nd Chinese Conference, PRCV 2019, Proceedings, Part II
EditorsZhouchen Lin, Liang Wang, Tieniu Tan, Jian Yang, Guangming Shi, Nanning Zheng, Xilin Chen, Yanning Zhang
PublisherSpringer
Pages736-748
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783030317225
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event2nd Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2019 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 8 Nov 201911 Nov 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11858 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period8/11/1911/11/19

Keywords

  • DOP Invariance Prior
  • DOP-Chromatic Consistency Prior
  • Polarized imaging
  • Shadow enhancement

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