METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVING ATMOSPHERIC OBSCURANTS FROM IMAGES

摘要

A method and apparatus for removing atmospheric obscurants from digital images using a combination of a visible light image portion (2) obtained using a CMOS image sensor and an infrared image portion (3) obtained using an SWIR image sensor and relating to the same scene (1) to create a merged image portion (4) with a first colored region (5) extracted from the visible light image portion (2) and a second colorless region (6) extracted from the infrared image portion (3) that can be enhanced by color information (7) predicted using a colorization algorithm (10) based on the first colored region (5) and further reference images (9) available via social media environments and the internet.