Underwater Single Image Restoration Using Dark Channel Prior

The underwater vision is highly spoiled by the underwater degradation effects. As light propagates in the water or other participative mediums, it suffers from a substantial scattering effect that produces poor image quality. Based on a physical model that describes this phenomenon it is possible to recover an haze-free image. But, for this procedure to succeed, it is necessary to obtain certain parameters from the model. With an adaptation of the Dark Channel Prior, proposed by this paper, we are able to obtain a rough distance map estimative. With this, and some model simplifications, we are able to successfully obtain the restoration of the image.