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Underwater images are degraded by the selective attenuation of light that distorts colours and reduces contrast. The degradation extent depends on the water type, the distance between an object and the camera, and the depth under the water…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Chau Yi Li , Riccardo Mazzon , Andrea Cavallaro

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) aims to generate clear images from low-quality underwater images. Due to the unavailability of clear reference images, researchers often synthesize them to construct paired datasets for training deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Dazhao Du , Enhan Li , Lingyu Si , Fanjiang Xu , Jianwei Niu , Fuchun Sun

Underwater images often suffer from severe degradation caused by light absorption and scattering, leading to color distortion, low contrast and reduced visibility. Existing Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) methods can be divided into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Shixuan Xu , Yabo Liu , Chao Huang , Junyu Dong , Xinghui Dong

In recent years, there has been a surge of research focused on underwater image enhancement using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), driven by the need to overcome the challenges posed by underwater environments. Issues such as light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Kancharagunta Kishan Babu , Ashreen Tabassum , Bommakanti Navaneeth , Tenneti Jahnavi , Yenka Akshaya

Underwater image enhancement algorithms have attracted much attention in underwater vision task. However, these algorithms are mainly evaluated on different data sets and different metrics. In this paper, we set up an effective and pubic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Hanyu Li , Jingjing Li , Wei Wang

Underwater Image Rendering aims to generate a true-tolife underwater image from a given clean one, which could be applied to various practical applications such as underwater image enhancement, camera filter, and virtual gaming. We explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tian Ye , Sixiang Chen , Yun Liu , Yi Ye , Erkang Chen , Yuche Li

Images acquired during underwater activities suffer from environmental properties of the water, such as turbidity and light attenuation. These phenomena cause color distortion, blurring, and contrast reduction. In addition, irregular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Claudio D. Mello , Bryan U. Moreira , Paulo J. O. Evald , Paulo L. Drews , Silvia S. Botelho

In this paper, we present a ranking-based underwater image quality assessment (UIQA) method, abbreviated as URanker. The URanker is built on the efficient conv-attentional image Transformer. In terms of underwater images, we specially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Chunle Guo , Ruiqi Wu , Xin Jin , Linghao Han , Zhi Chai , Weidong Zhang , Chongyi Li

Underwater image quality is affected by fluorescence, low illumination, absorption, and scattering. Recent works in underwater image enhancement have proposed different deep network architectures to handle these problems. Most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Pranjali Singh , Prithwijit Guha

Robust visual recognition in underwater environments remains a significant challenge due to complex distortions such as turbidity, low illumination, and occlusion, which severely degrade the performance of standard vision systems. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Taufikur Rahman Fuad , Sabbir Ahmed , Shahriar Ivan

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

Underwater images often have severe quality degradation and distortion due to light absorption and scattering in the water medium. A hazed image formation model is widely used to restore the image quality. It depends on two optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Wei Song , Yan Wang , Dongmei Huang , Antonio Liotta , Cristian Perra

Raw underwater images are degraded due to wavelength dependent light attenuation and scattering, limiting their applicability in vision systems. Another factor that makes enhancing underwater images particularly challenging is the diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Pritish Uplavikar , Zhenyu Wu , Zhangyang Wang

Most deep models for underwater image enhancement resort to training on synthetic datasets based on underwater image formation models. Although promising performances have been achieved, they are still limited by two problems: (1) existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Zhengyong Wang , Liquan Shen , Mei Yu , Yufei Lin , Qiuyu Zhu

Achieving subjective and objective quality assessment of underwater images is of high significance in underwater visual perception and image/video processing. However, the development of underwater image quality assessment (UIQA) is limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Guojia Hou , Yuxuan Li , Huan Yang , Kunqian Li , Zhenkuan Pan

High-quality underwater images are essential for both machine vision tasks and viewers with their aesthetic appeal.However, the quality of underwater images is severely affected by light absorption and scattering. Deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Jiangzhong Cao , Zekai Zeng , Xu Zhang , Huan Zhang , Chunling Fan , Gangyi Jiang , Weisi Lin

The goal of this work is to apply a denoising image transformer to remove the distortion from underwater images and compare it with other similar approaches. Automatic restoration of underwater images plays an important role since it allows…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Abderrahmene Boudiaf , Yuhang Guo , Adarsh Ghimire , Naoufel Werghi , Giulia De Masi , Sajid Javed , Jorge Dias

Underwater imagery is often compromised by factors such as color distortion and low contrast, posing challenges for high-level vision tasks. Recent underwater image restoration (UIR) methods either analyze the input image at full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Alik Pramanick , Arijit Sur , V. Vijaya Saradhi

Due to the wavelength-dependent light attenuation, refraction and scattering, underwater images usually suffer from color distortion and blurred details. However, due to the limited number of paired underwater images with undistorted images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Qi Qi , Kunqian Li , Haiyong Zheng , Xiang Gao , Guojia Hou , Kun Sun

Underwater imaging plays a pivotal role in marine exploration and ecological monitoring. However, it faces significant challenges of limited transmission bandwidth and severe distortion in the aquatic environment. In this work, to achieve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Linwei Zhu , Junhao Zhu , Xu Zhang , Huan Zhang , Ye Li , Runmin Cong , Sam Kwong