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Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is a meaningful but challenging task, and many learning-based UIE methods have been proposed in recent years. Although much progress has been made, these methods still exist two issues: (1) There exists a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhengyong Wang , Liquan Shen , Yihan Yu , Yuan Hui

Due to the absorption and scattering effects of the water, underwater images tend to suffer from many severe problems, such as low contrast, grayed out colors and blurring content. To improve the visual quality of underwater images, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Hui Li , Xi Yang , ZhenMing Li , TianLun Zhang

Underwater image restoration and enhancement are crucial for correcting color distortion and restoring image details, thereby establishing a fundamental basis for subsequent underwater visual tasks. However, current deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yufeng Tian , Yifan Chen , Zhe Sun , Libang Chen , Mingyu Dou , Jijun Lu , Ye Zheng , Xuelong Li

This work proposes a method for underwater image enhancement using the principle of histogram equalization. Since underwater images have a global strong dominant colour, their colourfulness and contrast are often degraded. Before applying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Anushka Yadav , Mayank Upadhyay , Ghanapriya Singh

Underwater imaging is fundamentally challenging due to wavelength-dependent light attenuation, strong scattering from suspended particles, turbidity-induced blur, and non-uniform illumination. These effects impair standard cameras and make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Nick Truong , Pritam P. Karmokar , William J. Beksi

The challenges in recovering underwater images are the presence of diverse degradation factors and the lack of ground truth images. Although synthetic underwater image pairs can be used to overcome the problem of inadequately observing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhenwei Zhang , Haorui Yan , Ke Tang , Yuping Duan

Background: Underwater images, in general, suffer from low contrast and high color distortions due to the non-uniform attenuation of the light as it propagates through the water. In addition, the degree of attenuation varies with the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-20 Prasen Kumar Sharma , Ira Bisht , Arijit Sur

Large vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in natural scene understanding, yet their application to underwater environments remains largely unexplored. Underwater imagery presents unique challenges including severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Da Zhang , Chenggang Rong , Bingyu Li , Feiyu Wang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Junyu Gao , Xuelong Li

One of the main challenges in deep learning-based underwater image enhancement is the limited availability of high-quality training data. Underwater images are difficult to capture and are often of poor quality due to the distortion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Alzayat Saleh , Marcus Sheaves , Dean Jerry , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

Underwater robots play an important role in oceanic geological exploration, resource exploitation, ecological research, and other fields. However, the visual perception of underwater robots is affected by various environmental factors. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-08 Xuelei Chen , Pin Zhang , Lingwei Quan , Chao Yi , Cunyue Lu

Due to complex and volatile lighting environment, underwater imaging can be readily impaired by light scattering, warping, and noises. To improve the visual quality, Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) techniques have been widely studied.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yannan Zheng , Weiling Chen , Rongfu Lin , Tiesong Zhao

Computer vision techniques have empowered underwater robots to effectively undertake a multitude of tasks, including object tracking and path planning. However, underwater optical factors like light refraction and absorption present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Haodong Yang , Jisheng Xu , Zhiliang Lin , Jianping He

Underwater image enhancement has attracted much attention due to the rise of marine resource development in recent years. Benefit from the powerful representation capabilities of Convolution Neural Networks(CNNs), multiple underwater image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yudong Wang , Jichang Guo , Huan Gao , Huihui Yue

Visual analysis of complex fish habitats is an important step towards sustainable fisheries for human consumption and environmental protection. Deep Learning methods have shown great promise for scene analysis when trained on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Alzayat Saleh , Issam H. Laradji , Dmitry A. Konovalov , Michael Bradley , David Vazquez , Marcus Sheaves

In image enhancement tasks, such as low-light and underwater image enhancement, a degraded image can correspond to multiple plausible target images due to dynamic photography conditions. This naturally results in a one-to-many mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Guoxi Huang , Qirui Yang , Ruirui Lin , Zipeng Qi , David Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Underwater degraded images greatly challenge existing algorithms to detect objects of interest. Recently, researchers attempt to adopt attention mechanisms or composite connections for improving the feature representation of detectors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Chenping Fu , Wanqi Yuan , Jiewen Xiao , Risheng Liu , Xin Fan

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) poses challenges due to distinctive properties of the underwater environment, including low contrast, high turbidity, visual blurriness, and color distortion. In recent years, the application of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Wangzhen Peng , Chenghao Zhou , Runze Hu , Jingchao Cao , Yutao Liu

Underwater image restoration is of significant importance in unveiling the underwater world. Numerous techniques and algorithms have been developed in the past decades. However, due to fundamental difficulties associated with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Junlin Han , Mehrdad Shoeiby , Tim Malthus , Elizabeth Botha , Janet Anstee , Saeed Anwar , Ran Wei , Mohammad Ali Armin , Hongdong Li , Lars Petersson

Underwater imaging grapples with challenges from light-water interactions, leading to color distortions and reduced clarity. In response to these challenges, we propose a novel Color Balance Prior \textbf{Guided} \textbf{Hyb}rid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xiaojiao Guo , Xuhang Chen , Shuqiang Wang , Chi-Man Pun

Edge-preserving image smoothing is an important step for many low-level vision problems. Though many algorithms have been proposed, there are several difficulties hindering its further development. First, most existing algorithms cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Feida Zhu , Zhetong Liang , Xixi Jia , Lei Zhang , Yizhou Yu