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Underwater image restoration attracts significant attention due to its importance in unveiling the underwater world. This paper elaborates on a novel method that achieves state-of-the-art results for underwater image restoration based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Junlin Han , Mehrdad Shoeiby , Tim Malthus , Elizabeth Botha , Janet Anstee , Saeed Anwar , Ran Wei , Lars Petersson , Mohammad Ali Armin

This paper presents a new variational inference framework for image restoration and a convolutional neural network (CNN) structure that can solve the restoration problems described by the proposed framework. Earlier CNN-based image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

Underwater images suffer from color distortion and low contrast, because light is attenuated while it propagates through water. Attenuation under water varies with wavelength, unlike terrestrial images where attenuation is assumed to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Dana Berman , Deborah Levy , Shai Avidan , Tali Treibitz

Underwater images are severely degraded by wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering, resulting in color distortion, low contrast, and loss of fine details that hinder vision-based underwater applications. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Afrah Shaahid , Muzammil Behzad

Underwater images often suffer from severe color distortion, low contrast, and a hazy appearance due to wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering. Simultaneously, existing deep learning models exhibit high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Munsif Ali , Najmul Hassan , Lucia Ventura , Davide Di Bari , Simonepietro Canese

An approach to incorporate deep learning within an iterative image reconstruction framework to reconstruct images from severely incomplete measurement data is presented. Specifically, we utilize a convolutional neural network (CNN) as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Brendan Kelly , Thomas P. Matthews , Mark A. Anastasio

Underwater scenes intrinsically involve degradation problems owing to heterogeneous ocean elements. Prevailing underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods stick to straightforward feature modeling to learn the mapping function, which leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zhixiong Huang , Xinying Wang , Chengpei Xu , Jinjiang Li , Lin Feng

Due to the selective absorption and scattering of light by diverse aquatic media, underwater images usually suffer from various visual degradations. Existing underwater image enhancement (UIE) approaches that combine underwater physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Dazhao Du , Lingyu Si , Fanjiang Xu , Jianwei Niu , Fuchun Sun

Activities in underwater environments are paramount in several scenarios, which drives the continuous development of underwater image enhancement techniques. A major challenge in this domain is the depth at which images are captured, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Tatiana Taís Schein , Gustavo Pereira de Almeira , Stephanie Loi Brião , Rodrigo Andrade de Bem , Felipe Gomes de Oliveira , Paulo L. J. Drews-Jr

The tradeoff between receptive field size and efficiency is a crucial issue in low level vision. Plain convolutional networks (CNNs) generally enlarge the receptive field at the expense of computational cost. Recently, dilated filtering has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Pengju Liu , Hongzhi Zhang , Kai Zhang , Liang Lin , Wangmeng Zuo

The powerful representation capacity of deep learning has made it inevitable for the underwater image enhancement community to employ its potential. The exploration of deep underwater image enhancement networks is increasing over time, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Saeed Anwar , Chongyi Li

Underwater imagery often exhibits distorted coloration as a result of light-water interactions, which complicates the study of benthic environments in marine biology and geography. In this research, we propose an algorithm to restore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Recent years have witnessed the great success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in image denoising. Albeit deeper network and larger model capacity generally benefit performance, it remains a challenging practical issue to train…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Yali Peng , Yue Cao , Shigang Liu , Jian Yang , Wangmeng Zuo

In general, underwater images suffer from color distortion and low contrast, because light is attenuated and backscattered as it propagates through water (differently depending on wavelength and on the properties of the water body). An…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Tanmoy Mondal , Ricardo Mendoza , Lucas Drumetz

Under-display cameras (UDCs) allow for full-screen designs by positioning the imaging sensor underneath the display. Nonetheless, light diffraction and scattering through the various display layers result in spatially varying and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Daehyun Kim , Youngmin Kim , Yoon Ju Oh , Tae Hyun Kim

The underwater images usually suffers from non-uniform lighting, low contrast, blur and diminished colors. In this paper, we proposed an image based preprocessing technique to enhance the quality of the underwater images. The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-04 C. J. Prabhakar , P. U. Praveen Kumar

Underwater images often suffer from color distortion and low contrast resulting in various image types, due to the scattering and absorption of light by water. While it is difficult to obtain high-quality paired training samples with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Pan Mu , Hanning Xu , Zheyuan Liu , Zheng Wang , Sixian Chan , Cong Bai

The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of underwater image enhancement techniques to improve keypoint detection and matching. By applying advanced deep learning models, including generative adversarial networks and convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Pedro Diaz-Garcia , Felix Escalona , Miguel Cazorla

Visual inspection of underwater structures by vehicles, e.g. remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), plays an important role in scientific, military, and commercial sectors. However, the automatic extraction of information using software tools…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Yousif Hashisho , Mohamad Albadawi , Tom Krause , Uwe Freiherr von Lukas

Underwater vision is crucial for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), and enhancing degraded underwater images in real-time on a resource-constrained AUV is a key challenge due to factors like light absorption and scattering, or the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Nguyen Gia Bach , Chanh Minh Tran , Eiji Kamioka , Phan Xuan Tan