Author Affiliations
1School of Electronic Engineering, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710121, China2School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710126, China3School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Reflectivity of sunlight from the air to the smooth water surface
Fig. 2. Polarization degree of glint varying with the incident angle of sunlight
Fig. 3. Model for water surface sun glint suppression utilizing polarization filtering and polynomial fitting
Fig. 4. Flow chart of two-dimensional surface fitting to suppress the sun glint on the water surface
Fig. 5. Flow chart of line-by-line polynomial fitting to remove the sun glint
Fig. 6. Experimental results of the first group. (a) Gray image without polarization filtering; (b) gray image with polarization filtering; (c) image obtained by polynomial row direction curve fitting; (d) image obtained by polynomial column direction curve fitting; (e) image obtained by polynomial surface fitting; (f) image of line-by-line polynomial fitting to remove glint
Fig. 7. Histograms of experimental results of the first group. (a) Image histogram without polarization filtering; (b) image histogram with polarization filtering; (c) image histogram of polynomial row direction curve fitting image; (d) image histogram of polynomial column direction curve fitting; (e) image histogram of polynomial surface fitting; (f) image histogram of line-by-line polynomial fitting
Fig. 8. Experimental results of the second group. (a) Gray image without polarization filtering; (b) gray image with polarization filtering; (c) image obtained by polynomial row direction curve fitting; (d) image obtained by polynomial column direction curve fitting; (e) image obtained by polynomial surface fitting; (f) image of line-by-line polynomial fitting to remove glint
Fig. 9. Histograms of experimental results of the second group. (a) Image histogram without polarization filtering; (b) image histogram with polarization filtering; (c) image histogram of polynomial row direction curve fitting image; (d) image histogram of polynomial column direction curve fitting; (e) image histogram of polynomial surface fitting; (f) image histogram of line-by-line polynomial fitting
Image | Mean gray | Standard deviation | Number of saturated pixels |
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Fig. 7(a) | 137.4556 | 39.2726 | 27537 | Fig. 7(b) | 119.7173 | 25.3933 | 7037 | Fig. 7(c) | 115.9091 | 16.1304 | 0 | Fig. 7(d) | 115.7121 | 15.5516 | 0 | Fig. 7(e) | 115.6268 | 15.5440 | 0 | Fig. 7(f) | 114.3132 | 15.3691 | 0 |
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Table 1. Image quality evaluation indexes of the first group of experiments
Image | Mean gray | Standard deviation | Number of saturated pixels |
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Fig. 9(a) | 141.4537 | 38.7123 | 57140 | Fig. 9(b) | 110.5268 | 28.8762 | 11289 | Fig. 9(c) | 108.2020 | 24.1576 | 0 | Fig. 9(d) | 103.4127 | 19.8926 | 0 | Fig. 9(e) | 98.1747 | 17.1200 | 0 | Fig. 9(f) | 96.2230 | 16.7501 | 0 |
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Table 2. Image quality evaluation indexes of the second group of experiments