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A Hybrid Retinex-Based Algorithm for UAV-Taken Image Enhancement

Xinran LIU, Zhongju WANG, Long WANG, Chao HUANG, Xiong LUO

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A hybrid Retinex-based image enhancement algorithm is proposed to improve the quality of images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in this paper. Hyperparameters of the employed multi-scale Retinex with chromaticity preservation (MSRCP) model are automatically tuned via a two-phase evolutionary computing algorithm. In the two-phase optimization algorithm, the Rao-2 algorithm is applied to performing the global search and a solution is obtained by maximizing the objective function. Next, the Nelder-Mead simplex method is used to improve the solution via local search. Real UAV-taken images of bad quality are collected to verify the performance of the proposed algorithm. Meanwhile, four famous image enhancement algorithms, Multi-Scale Retinex, Multi-Scale Retinex with Color Restoration, Automated Multi-Scale Retinex, and MSRCP are utilized as benchmarking methods. Meanwhile, two commonly used evolutionary computing algorithms, particle swarm optimization and flower pollination algorithm, are considered to verify the efficiency of the proposed method in tuning parameters of the MSRCP model. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves the best performance compared with benchmarks and thus the proposed method is applicable for real UAV-based applications.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E104-D No.11 pp.2024-2027
Publication Date
2021/11/01
Publicized
2021/08/05
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2021EDL8050
Type of Manuscript
LETTER
Category
Image Processing and Video Processing

Authors

Xinran LIU
  University of Science and Technology Beijing,Shunde Graduate School of University of Science and Technology Beijing
Zhongju WANG
  University of Science and Technology Beijing,Shunde Graduate School of University of Science and Technology Beijing
Long WANG
  University of Science and Technology Beijing,Shunde Graduate School of University of Science and Technology Beijing
Chao HUANG
  University of Science and Technology Beijing,Shunde Graduate School of University of Science and Technology Beijing
Xiong LUO
  University of Science and Technology Beijing,Shunde Graduate School of University of Science and Technology Beijing

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