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In this paper, a novel multidimensional underwater video dehazing method is presented to restore and enhance the underwater degraded videos. Videos in the underwater suffer from medium scattering and light absorption. The absorption of light traveling in the water makes the underwater hazing videos different from the atmosphere hazing videos. In order to dehaze the underwater videos, a spatial–temporal information fusion method is proposed which includes two main parts. One is transmission estimation, which is based on the correlation between the adjacent frames of videos to keep the color consistency, where fast tracking and the least square method are used to reduce the influence of camera and object motions and water flowing. Another part is background light estimation to keep consistent atmospheric light values in a video. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can have superior haze removing and color balancing capabilities.
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Qing, C., Yu, F., Xu, X. et al. Underwater video dehazing based on spatial–temporal information fusion. Multidim Syst Sign Process 27, 909–924 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11045-016-0407-2
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