Underwater image enhancement based on contrast adjustment via differential evolution algorithm
Gür Emre Güraksın, Utku Köse, Ömer Deperlioğlu · 2016
Due to the absorption and scattering of light in underwater environment, underwater images have poor contrast and resolution. This situation generally causes to a color, which became more dominant than the other ones. Because of that, analyzing underwater images effectively and identifying any object under the water has become a difficult task. In this paper, an underwater enhancement approach by using differential evolution algorithm was proposed. In the approach, a contrast enhancement in the RGB space is done. By using the approach, both scattering and absorption effects are reduced.