Automatic Shadow Compensation Based on Improved Wallis Model for High Resolution Remote Sensing Images
摘要
Objectives Shadows in high-resolution remote sensing images will cause objects information loss and image quality decline, which is not beneficial for relative applications. Current shadow compensation methods often take advantage of non-shadow information around the shadow area to increase the brightness, whereas there is an unsolved problem that the contrast cannot be enhanced well enough and self-adaptively. Wallis filter principle has been used in image dodging. However, when it is used in shadow compensation, contrast improvement is not as good as other methods, leading to poor compensation results. Therefore, an improved Wallis model compensation method is proposed in this paper to enhance the brightness and contrast better to restore the shaded information. Methods First, by adding compensation strength and stretch parameters, an improved Wallis model is designed. The strength parameter is positive to the brightness and contrast, and the stretch parameter is sensitive to the contrast. Therefore, the improved Wallis model is more efficient to adjust brightness and contrast. Moreover, an automatic parameters calculation strategy is further explored to customize a suitable compensation model for each shadow area. On one hand, the brightness average and deviation of the adjacent non-shadow region are calculated and used as the compensation target values. On the other hand, based on searching the same kinds of points around shadow boundaries, a series of non-shadow and shadow feature points are matched. Assumed the feature value of the non-shadow point is the approximate value of its responding shadow point, they can be used to calculate strength and stretch parameters automatically. Lastly, the brightness of each pixel in different shadow regions will be compensated by customized models to cover the shaded information self-adaptively. Results In this paper, three sets of comparative experiments are set up to analyze and compare the part compensation methods al