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Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is a challenging task due to the complex degradation caused by underwater environments. To solve this issue, previous methods often idealize the degradation process, and neglect the impact of medium noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Jingchun Zhou , Zongxin He , Qiuping Jiang , Kui Jiang , Xianping Fu , Xuelong Li

Absence of nearby light sources while capturing an image will degrade the visibility and quality of the captured image, making computer vision tasks difficult. In this paper, a color-wise attention network (CWAN) is proposed for low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yousef Atoum , Mao Ye , Liu Ren , Ying Tai , Xiaoming Liu

Images captured underwater often suffer from suboptimal illumination settings that can hide important visual features, reducing their quality. We present a novel single-image low-light underwater image enhancer, L^2UWE, that builds on our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Tunai Porto Marques , Alexandra Branzan Albu

Robust vision restoration of underwater images remains a challenge. Owing to the lack of well-matched underwater and in-air images, unsupervised methods based on the cyclic generative adversarial framework have been widely investigated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shuaizheng Yan , Xingyu Chen , Zhengxing Wu , Min Tan , Junzhi Yu

Deep convolutional networks (CNNs) have exhibited their potential in image inpainting for producing plausible results. However, in most existing methods, e.g., context encoder, the missing parts are predicted by propagating the surrounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Zhaoyi Yan , Xiaoming Li , Mu Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Shiguang Shan

Given the complexity of underwater environments and the variability of water as a medium, underwater images are inevitably subject to various types of degradation. The degradations present nonlinear coupling rather than simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Tao Ye , Hongbin Ren , Chongbing Zhang , Haoran Chen , Xiaosong Li

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) aims to restore visibility and correct color distortions caused by wavelength-dependent absorption and scattering. Recent hybrid approaches, which couple domain priors with modern deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Ching-Heng Cheng , Jen-Wei Lee , Chia-Ming Lee , Chih-Chung Hsu

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) presents a significant challenge within computer vision research. Despite the development of numerous UIE algorithms, a thorough and systematic review is still absent. To foster future advancements, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Xiaofeng Cong , Yu Zhao , Jie Gui , Junming Hou , Dacheng Tao

Underwater visual enhancement (UVE) and underwater 3D reconstruction pose significant challenges in computer vision and AI-based tasks due to complex imaging conditions in aquatic environments. Despite the development of numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Guoxi Huang , Haoran Wang , Brett Seymour , Evan Kovacs , John Ellerbrock , Dave Blackham , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Accurate image-based bathymetric mapping in shallow waters remains challenging due to the complex optical distortions such as wave induced patterns, scattering and sunglint, introduced by the dynamic water surface, the water column…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Maximilian Kromer , Panagiotis Agrafiotis , Begüm Demir

Underwater visual imaging is crucial for marine engineering, but it suffers from low contrast, blurriness, and color degradation, which hinders downstream analysis. Existing underwater image enhancement methods often treat the haze and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Chengqin Wu , Shuai Yu , Tuyan Luo , Qiuhua Rao , Qingson Hu , Jingxiang Xu , Lijun Zhang

Object classification is a significant task in computer vision. It has become an effective research area as an important aspect of image processing and the building block of image localization, detection, and scene parsing. Object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Md. Mohsin Kabir , Abu Quwsar Ohi , Md. Saifur Rahman , M. F. Mridha

Face recognition algorithms based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have made progress on the task of recognizing faces in unconstrained viewing conditions. These networks operate with compact feature-based face representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Connor J. Parde , Carlos Castillo , Matthew Q. Hill , Y. Ivette Colon , Swami Sankaranarayanan , Jun-Cheng Chen , Alice J. O'Toole

We propose the first general framework to automatically correct different types of geometric distortion in a single input image. Our proposed method employs convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained by using a large synthetic distortion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xiaoyu Li , Bo Zhang , Pedro V. Sander , Jing Liao

Improving the quality of underwater images is essential for advancing marine research and technology. This work introduces a sparsity-driven interpretable neural network (SINET) for the underwater image enhancement (UIE) task. Unlike pure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Gargi Panda , Soumitra Kundu , Saumik Bhattacharya , Aurobinda Routray

Given a degraded input image, image restoration aims to recover the missing high-quality image content. Numerous applications demand effective image restoration, e.g., computational photography, surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-04 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Ling Shao

Following the rapidly growing digital image usage, automatic image categorization has become preeminent research area. It has broaden and adopted many algorithms from time to time, whereby multi-feature (generally, hand-engineered features)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Thangarajah Akilan , Q. M. Jonathan Wu , Wei Jiang

Underwater images are fundamental for studying and understanding the status of marine life. We focus on reducing the memory space required for image storage while the memory space consumption in the collecting phase limits the time lasting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Rita Pucci , Niki Martinel

In this paper, we introduce a generative model for image enhancement specifically for improving diver detection in the underwater domain. In particular, we present a model that integrates generative adversarial network (GAN)-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Chelsey Edge , Md Jahidul Islam , Christopher Morse , Junaed Sattar

Underwater Image Restoration (UIR) remains a challenging task in computer vision due to the complex degradation of images in underwater environments. While recent approaches have leveraged various deep learning techniques, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Xiaojiao Guo , Yihang Dong , Xuhang Chen , Weiwen Chen , Zimeng Li , FuChen Zheng , Chi-Man Pun