Fast Dust Sand Image Enhancement Based on Color Correction and New Membership Function

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel image enhancement model for dusty sand images, combining color correction, haze removal, and contrast enhancement to improve visibility and color accuracy in dusty environments.

Contribution

The paper proposes a new model utilizing a unique membership function for color correction and integrates existing techniques for haze removal and contrast enhancement, improving dust image quality.

Findings

Outperforms existing methods in removing color casts.

Effectively enhances contrast and brightness.

Produces higher quality dust images.

Abstract

Images captured in dusty environments suffering from poor visibility and quality. Enhancement of these images such as sand dust images plays a critical role in various atmospheric optics applications. In this work, proposed a new model based on Color Correction and new membership function to enhance san dust images. The proposed model consists of three phases: correction of color shift, removal of haze, and enhancement of contrast and brightness. The color shift is corrected using a new membership function to adjust the values of U and V in the YUV color space. The Adaptive Dark Channel Prior (A-DCP) is used for haze removal. The stretching contrast and improving image brightness are based on Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE). The proposed model tests and evaluates through many real sand dust images. The experimental results show that the proposed solution is outperformed the current studies in terms of effectively removing the red and yellow cast and provides high quality and quantity dust images.