Enhanced imaging through turbid water based on quadrature lock-in discrimination and retinex aided by adaptive gamma function for illumination correction

Riffat Tehseen; Amjad Ali; Mithilesh Mane; Wenmin Ge; Yanlong Li; Zejun Zhang; Jing Xu

doi:10.3788/COL202321.101102

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