Fine reconstruction of underwater images for environmental feature fusion

Abstract

Complicated underwater environments, such as occlusion by foreign objects and dim light, causes serious loss of underwater targets feature. Furthermore, underwater ripples cause target deformation, which greatly increases the difficulty of feature extraction. Then, existing image reconstruction models cannot effectively achieve target reconstruction due to insufficient underwater target features, and there is a blurred texture in the reconstructed area. To solve the above problems, a fine reconstruction of underwater images with the target feature missing from the environment feature was proposed. Firstly, the salient features of underwater images are obtained in terms of positive and negative sample learning. Secondly, a layered environmental attention mechanism is proposed to retrieve the relevant local and global features in the context. Finally, a coarse-to-fine image reconstruction model, with gradient penalty constraints, is constructed to obtain the fine restoration results. Contrast experiment between the proposed algorithm and the existing image reconstruction methods has been done in stereo quantitative underwater image data set, real-world underwater image enhancement data set, and underwater image data set, clearly proving that the proposed one is more effective and superior.