阅读说明：本技术 一种水下主动激光扫描成像系统中散射背景抑制方法 (Scattering background suppression method in underwater active laser scanning imaging system ) 是由 屠大维 张旭 吉勇 于 2020-07-30 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明涉及一种水下主动激光扫描成像系统中散射背景抑制方法,本方法对记录接收的光场图像作两次重聚焦处理,第一次重聚焦是对激光照射到被测物体表面激光光点的重聚焦,第二次重聚焦是对激光光点前景散射光的重聚焦,再对前后两幅图像作差分处理,并计算反射光点的衬度值；采用一种计算机自动判断流程,使得差分所得图像上激光点的衬度值最大,或足够大。本发明的实施例表明,采用光场记录的水下激光主动扫描成像系统,采用上述前后两次重聚焦、差分处理及计算机自动判定流程,达到了较好的散射背景抑制效果。(The invention relates to a method for inhibiting scattering background in an underwater active laser scanning imaging system, which carries out refocusing treatment twice on a recorded and received light field image, wherein the refocusing treatment for the first time is refocusing of a laser spot irradiated on the surface of a measured object by laser, the refocusing treatment for the second time is refocusing of foreground scattered light of the laser spot, and then the difference treatment is carried out on the front image and the rear image, and the contrast value of a reflected light spot is calculated; and a computer automatic judgment process is adopted, so that the contrast value of the laser point on the image obtained by difference is maximum or sufficiently large. The embodiment of the invention shows that the underwater laser active scanning imaging system adopting the optical field recording adopts the twice refocusing, differential processing and computer automatic determination processes to achieve better scattering background suppression effect.)

1. The utility model provides a scattering background suppression method in initiative laser scanning imaging system under water, uses in the initiative laser scanning imaging system under water that adopts the light field camera to receive the record, and this system includes laser emission scanning system (1), testee (2), light field camera (3) to and constitute main lens (4) of light field camera (3), microlens array (5) and image sensor (6), its characterized in that:

step 1: refocusing for the first time, namely refocusing a laser spot irradiated to the surface of a measured object, calculating the contrast value of the laser spot of the image at the moment, and setting the initial value of a focusing depth coefficient beta to be 0;

step 2: setting an increase step value astep of the focusing depth coefficient beta;

and step 3: the focusing depth coefficient beta value is increased by one step;

and 4, step 4: refocusing according to the current beta value to obtain a corresponding foreground scattered light image;

and 5: carrying out difference processing on the refocused image of the laser spot obtained in the step 1 and the refocused image of the foreground scattered light obtained in the step 4 to obtain a reflected laser spot image of a difference image;

step 6: calculating the contrast value of the differential image reflected laser point;

and 7: judging whether the contrast value of the differential image reflected laser point is increased or fluctuates in a smaller range, if not, subtracting the original increase step value astep, modifying the step value astep, and returning to the step 3; if yes, executing step 8;

and 8: judging whether the contrast value of the differential image reflected laser point is large enough or keeps small fluctuation, if not, returning to the step 3; if yes, executing step 9;

and step 9: determining the focusing depth coefficient beta at the moment as a proper value, and taking the corresponding refocusing image as a second scattering background refocusing image to obtain a differential image reflection laser spot image;

step 10: and (6) ending.

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of underwater active visual imaging, and relates to a method for inhibiting scattering background in an underwater active laser imaging system.

Background

The underwater vision has wide application in the aspects of submarine resource exploration, ocean development, underwater detection, underwater counter terrorism and the like. As is well known, the image resolution of underwater acoustic imaging is low, target details cannot be obtained from the image, and the application requirements are difficult to meet; underwater optical imaging, especially underwater active laser imaging, can make up for the shortcomings of acoustic imaging. However, the imaging quality of the underwater laser imaging system is affected due to the fact that the aqueous medium has strong scattering optical characteristics. At present, various underwater laser active imaging technologies and methods exist, such as a distance gating method based on time separation, a synchronous scanning method based on space separation, a polarization imaging method based on polarization suppression, and the like, which all can play a role in suppressing emitted laser scattering to some extent, but further improvement and perfection are still needed. In addition, in addition to the emission laser light scattering, there are influences such as scattered light of background light (such as sunlight) in water, fluorescence of microorganisms, and multiple scattering of various scattered light.

The traditional underwater active laser scanning system adopts a common camera to receive and record target reflected light, and reflected laser points are buried in background scattering noise and cannot be separated. The invention adopts a commercial light field camera to record all underwater light fields of the laser scanning imaging system, including position and direction information of laser reflection light and various scattering background parasitic light, and provides possibility for separating the scattering background parasitic light from the laser reflection light.

The published patent CN201710152249 adopts an optical field to record all optical field information of underwater laser synchronous scanning triangulation ranging imaging, based on the optical field recorded information, realizes tomographic scanning refocusing of scenes at different depths by an airspace optical field transformation technology, obtains refocusing slice images at different depths of an object scene, extracts a clear laser spot image projected on the surface of an object after reflection, and suppresses scattered light and various kinds of stray light at other positions of the object scene. The invention adopts different processing methods: firstly, refocusing a recorded light field image twice in a front-back manner, wherein the first refocusing is refocusing of a laser spot irradiated on the surface of an object by laser, the second refocusing is refocusing of foreground scattered light of the laser spot, and then difference processing is carried out on the front image and the back image; in order to determine the appropriate position for the second refocusing, a computer automatic judgment process is provided to maximize the contrast of the laser point on the image obtained by the difference, or to make the contrast large enough. The embodiment of the invention shows that the underwater laser active imaging system adopting the optical field recording can achieve better scattering background inhibition effect through twice refocusing, differential processing and automatic computer judgment processes, and the implementation method is simple and convenient.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the problem of contrast of laser reflection light spots caused by scattered light in an underwater active laser scanning imaging system, and provides a scattering background suppression method in the underwater active laser scanning imaging system, which can effectively separate an underwater scattering background from laser reflection light and improve the contrast value of an image laser spot.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention has the following conception:

the invention discloses a method for inhibiting scattering background in an underwater active laser scanning imaging system, which comprises the following operation principles:

1) twice refocusing specifically comprises: the first refocusing is refocusing of a laser spot irradiated on the surface of the object 2 to be measured by the laser, and the second refocusing is refocusing of a scattered light field with a corresponding focusing depth coefficient beta on the foreground of the laser spot on the surface of the object 2 to be measured.

2) The difference processing specifically includes: and carrying out difference processing on the first refocusing image and the second refocusing image to obtain a difference image containing the laser reflection light spot.

3) The differential image reflection light point contrast value is automatically judged by a computer, and the method specifically comprises the following steps: to determine the appropriate location for the second refocusing,

and adopting a computer automatic judgment process to enable the contrast value of the laser point on the image obtained by difference to be maximum or large enough.

According to the inventive concept, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

a method for suppressing scattering background in an underwater active laser scanning imaging system is applied to the underwater active laser scanning imaging system which adopts a light field camera to receive and record, the system comprises a laser emission scanning system, a measured object, a light field camera, a main lens, a micro lens array and an image sensor, and the method is characterized by comprising the following operation steps:

step 1: and (3) primary refocusing, namely refocusing the laser spot irradiated to the surface of the measured object. Calculating the contrast value of the image laser point at the moment, and setting the initial value of the focusing depth coefficient beta as 0;

step 2: the increase step value astep of the focus depth coefficient β is set.

And step 3: the focusing depth coefficient beta value is increased by one step;

and 4, step 4: and carrying out refocusing according to the current beta value to obtain a corresponding foreground scattered light image.

And 5: carrying out difference processing on the refocused image of the laser spot obtained in the step 1 and the refocused image of the foreground scattered light obtained in the step 4 to obtain a reflected laser spot image of a difference image;

step 6: calculating the contrast value of the differential image reflected laser point;

and 7: it is determined whether the contrast value of the differential image reflected laser spot increases or fluctuates within a small range. If not, subtracting the original increase step value astep, modifying the step value astep, and returning to the step 3; if yes, executing step 8;

and 8: it is determined whether the contrast value of the differential image reflected laser spot is large enough or remains small. If not, returning to the step 3; if yes, executing step 9;

and step 9: determining the focusing depth coefficient beta at the moment as a proper value, and taking the corresponding refocusing image as a second scattering background refocusing image to obtain a differential image reflection laser spot image;

step 10: and (6) ending.

The invention has the following obvious advantages: for underwater environments with different turbidities, measured objects with different distances, surface reflectivity of different measured objects and different emitted laser power, a computer program automatic judgment method can be adopted to automatically determine a proper foreground focusing depth coefficient to obtain a foreground scattering background light image; the scattered light energy is in anisotropic uniformity in a certain depth range, so that the intensity of the obtained scattered background light field is basically the same, and the energy of the laser spot on the scattered background image is weakened due to defocusing. Therefore, the scattering background light can be separated from the laser reflection light by differentiating the refocusing image of the first laser irradiation light spot with the foreground scattering background light image determined automatically by the computer, so that the contrast value of the laser spot of the reflection image is improved.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a light path diagram of an underwater active laser scanning imaging system adopting light field recording and receiving. The laser emission scanning system 1 emits a bundle of collimated laser beams, the collimated laser beams illuminate to a point A on the surface of an underwater measured object 2, and are subjected to diffuse reflection and received and recorded by a light field camera 3, the light field camera 3 is composed of a main lens 4, a micro lens array 5 and an image sensor 6, the illumination point A on the surface of the measured object 2, and an image point on the image sensor 6 is a point A'.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of the computer automatic determination of the contrast value of the reflection light spot of the differential image.

Fig. 3 is a relation curve of different focusing depth coefficients beta and corresponding laser spot image contrast values after difference.

Detailed Description

The preferred embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings: