Water is a kind of special natural background. The image acquired with laser imaging system for the underwater object always has some speckle noises caused by the backscattering of water and suspended particles, which gives birth to inconvenient to extract features of the image. In this paper, a set of laser underwater imaging system, which uses range-gated technique to avoid the backscatter and imaging distance up to above 20 meters, and its experimental results in boat-pool are introduced. According to the inherent mechanism of the underwater laser image, we propose a fractal-characters-based method for segmentation of the nature scene to find the artifact object from the image, which adopts region segmentation by Hausdroff dimension obtained by blanket covering method, and depends on the different distribution of the texture characteristic and multi-scale analysis to carry out the image segmentation. Experiments show the approach is suitable for texture segmentation and object finding in the image acquired b laser imaging laser system for the underwater object.
There are two kinds of image in the field of imaging for the underwater target due to using two types of light source, respectively, continue green-blue laser and pulse green-blue laser. When pulse laser is used, the obtained image has the characteristic of low contrast, small dimension of target and complex background. The method of multiple correlation peak-value detection, which is based on the correlativity of pixels in the region of target, can be directly used to implement target detection for the underwater laser image. When continue laser is used in the process of imaging for the underwater target, there is a beam of strong light in the image, which makes it difficult to implement target detection. Therefore, we use the multi-scale and multi-channel Gabor filter group with the character of direction selection to depress the disturbance of the strong beam firstly, and then, use the multiple correlation analysis method to detect the weak target in the image. Experimental results show that these methods are practical and effective.
There are tow respects to be studied on the characteristic of the laser echo of the underwater target in the paper. One is how to detect the echo signal of the target, and the other is how to describe it.
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