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Underwater Optical Image Data Transmission in the Presence of Turbulence and Attenuation

  • Ramavath Prasad Naik (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Convergence, Pukyong national university) ;
  • Maaz Salman (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Convergence, Pukyong national university) ;
  • Wan-Young Chung (Department of Electronic Engineering, Pukyong national university)
  • Received : 2023.01.11
  • Accepted : 2023.02.10
  • Published : 2023.03.31
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Abstract

Underwater images carry information that is useful in the fields of aquaculture, underwater military security, navigation, transportation, and so on. In this research, we transmitted an underwater image through various underwater mediums in the presence of underwater turbulence and beam attenuation effects using a high-speed visible optical carrier signal. The optical beam undergoes scintillation because of the turbulence and attenuation effects; therefore, distorted images were observed at the receiver end. To understand the behavior of the communication media, we obtained the bit error rate (BER) performance of the system with respect to the average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Also, the structural similarity index (SSI) and peak SNR (PSNR) metrics of the received image were evaluated. Based on the received images, we employed suitable nonlinear filters to recover the distorted images and enhance them further. The BER, SSI, and PSNR metrics of the specific nonlinear filters were also evaluated and compared with the unfiltered metrics. These metrics were evaluated using the on-off keying and binary phase-shift keying modulation techniques for the 50-m and 100-m links for beam attenuation resulting from pure seawater, clear ocean water, and coastal ocean water mediums.

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This research work was supported by a Research Grant of Pukyong National University (2021).

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