Comprehensive compression and attention-based reconstruction model for enhancing underwater images
摘要
Ocean research and engineering require the acquisition of underwater images to explore and interact with the marine environment. Transmission rates of these images are affected by low communication bandwidth. To address these problems, an end-to-end spatial-channel attention mechanism-based compression-reconstruction model using a shallow convolutional neural network (SC-SCNN) is proposed in the given paper. In this work, comparatively good quality reconstructed images are obtained using SC-CNN from very low resolution lossy compressed images. Experimental results show that the proposed method can obtain better Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) values than the traditional compression techniques. The memory space consumed by the reconstructed images of the proposed method is less than the traditional techniques. The reconstructed images have better quality when compared to existing image restoration models such as super resolution CNN (SRCNN), efficient sub-pixel convolutional network (ESPCNN), and trainable nonlinear reaction–diffusion (TNRD).