Underwater imaging has always been a challenge due to limitations imposed by scattering and absorption nature of the underwater environment. The light would be highly degraded after reflection and propagation in the water medium. Being an advanced imaging technique, Single-pixel Imaging (SPI) is applicable to acquire object spatial information in low light, severe backscattering, and high absorption conditions. Combination of Compressive Sensing (CS) and SPI can overcome the limitation of SPI algorithms such as long data-acquisition time, low reconstruction efficiency and poor reconstruction quality. In the current research, an underwater SPI system based on CS is established to reconstruct our two-dimensional (2D) transparent object. We have systematically investigated the influence of water turbid degree, measurement pattern types and number of measurements on image reconstruction performance. The proposed system is capable to reconstruct the object even when the turbidity reaches up to 80 Nephelometric Turbidity Unit (NTU), where the conventional imaging systems are unusable. Proposed reconstruction method in our research can save more than 70% data acquisition time, compared to SPI algorithm. Our experimental setup has been compared to a conventional imaging system and an underwater ghost imaging system to show its efficiency in obtaining accurate results from turbid water conditions. Furthermore, various algorithm comparison and imaging enhancement studies demonstrates that our algorithm is superior in bringing highly convex optimization at a faster rate with a smaller number of measurements. This work creates new insight into the SPI application and generates a guideline for researchers to improve their applications.INDEX TERMS Single pixel imaging, compressive sensing, gated techniques, imaging through turbid media.
Attenuation of the laser beam in underwater transmission and detection due to absorption and scattering results in a rapid reduction in energy and blurring of the image. By combining the bidirectional reflectivity distribution function (BRDF) with the Monte Carlo (MC) method, a full-link underwater imaging process model was established which comprehensively investigated the influence of water quality, transmission distance and target characteristics on imaging performance. In order to describe the transmission process of the light more accurately, by adding particles with both absorption and scattering functions in the medium, the Mie scattering theory was employed to simulate the real channel. Moreover, while setting the gate width, the pre-calibrated detector response curve was employed to build a corresponding relationship between the image grayscale and the detector collection energy, aiming to simulate the working mode of the detector in the experiment. In various imaging scenarios, the maximum relative errors between the simulated images and experimental results were within 30%, which proved the correctness of the imaging simulation model and the feasibility of the imaging MC (IMC) method to evaluate the quality of whole imaging process.
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