A study on the noise reduction method in turbid water environments using Spatial frequency characteristics

Scattering noise reduction is a challenging project to remove noise under scattering media conditions such as fog or turbid water. In previous study, blurring caused by scattering medium particles in fog or turbid water was removed by low-pass filtering. However, in this method, the accurate color information of the object may be lost due to rough low-frequency filtering. In addition, it is difficult to the obtain object shape information in heavy turbid environments. To solve this problem, we propose a new de-scattering algorithm that combines Fourier-domain filtering and integral imaging by creating a filter tailored to the frequency to be removed. To prove the proposed method, we perform a numerical analysis of experimental results using conventional and proposed methods.