Image Enhancement and Quality Assessment Methods in Turbid Water: A Review Article

The underwater imaging systems are drawing attention during the past few decades as more and more applications such as ocean exploration, underwater vehicles, intelligent fishing are becoming popular. As a result, newer and superior techniques are in need to fulfill the demands of receiving clearer, finer and better-quality underwater images with improved information within it. In this paper, recent underwater image enhancement systems which are capable of improving quality of images that suffers from low light and unbalanced colors are revised. Moreover, a variety of objective assessment methods regarding to desired category of information evaluation are highlighted.