提出通用多场景图像增强模型,提升复杂天气下船舶导航安全性。
Real-Time Multi-Scene Visibility Enhancement for Promoting Navigational Safety of Vessels Under Complex Weather Conditions
- 融合注意力机制与重参数技术,自适应增强多类恶劣天气图像。
- 在标准与航运数据集上均优于主流方法,且计算开销低。
- 适合智能航运系统中实时视觉感知应用,尤其适用于多天气场景。
可见光相机作为智能水运系统(IWTS)中船舶环境感知与导航辅助的关键传感器,常因雾霾、降雨和弱光等复杂天气导致成像质量下降,出现可见度低、对比度差、色彩失真等问题。这些问题会引发环境感知误差与航行决策延迟,威胁航行安全。尽管已有多种计算增强方法,但多数仅针对单一天气类型。为此,本文提出一种通用多场景可见性增强方法——边缘重参数化与注意力引导神经网络(ERANet),通过同时引入通道注意力、空间注意力和重参数化技术,在保持低计算成本的同时有效恢复不同天气条件下的图像质量。在标准数据集及与IWTS相关的数据集上进行的大量实验表明,该方法在图像质量与计算效率方面均优于多个代表性方法;基于其增强后的图像,复杂天气下的目标检测与场景分割性能也显著提升。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The visible-light camera, which is capable of environment perception and navigation assistance, has emerged as an essential imaging sensor for marine surface vessels in intelligent waterborne transportation systems (IWTS). However, the visual imaging quality inevitably suffers from several kinds of degradations (e.g., limited visibility, low contrast, color distortion, etc.) under complex weather conditions (e.g., haze, rain, and low-lightness). The degraded visual information will accordingly result in inaccurate environment perception and delayed operations for navigational risk. To promote the navigational safety of vessels, many computational methods have been presented to perform visual quality enhancement under poor weather conditions. However, most of these methods are essentially specific-purpose implementation strategies, only available for one specific weather type. To overcome this limitation, we propose to develop a general-purpose multi-scene visibility enhancement method, i.e., edge reparameterization- and attention-guided neural network (ERANet), to adaptively restore the degraded images captured under different weather conditions. In particular, our ERANet simultaneously exploits the channel attention, spatial attention, and reparameterization technology to enhance the visual quality while maintaining low computational cost. Extensive experiments conducted on standard and IWTS-related datasets have demonstrated that our ERANet could outperform several representative visibility enhancement methods in terms of both imaging quality and computational efficiency. The superior performance of IWTS-related object detection and scene segmentation could also be steadily obtained after ERANet-based visibility enhancement under complex weather conditions.
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