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Underwater image enhancement plays a crucial role in providing reliable visual information for underwater platforms, since strong absorption and scattering in water-related environments generally lead to image quality degradation. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yiqiang Zhou , Yifan Chen , Zhe Sun , Jijun Lu , Ye Zheng , Xuelong Li

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 exhibit poor quality, distorted color balance and low contrast due to the complex and intricate interplay of light, water, and objects. Despite the significant contributions of previous underwater enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Weiwen Chen , Yingtie Lei , Shenghong Luo , Ziyang Zhou , Mingxian Li , Chi-Man Pun

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) aims to improve the visual quality from a low-quality input. Unlike other image enhancement tasks, underwater images suffer from the unavailability of real reference images. Although existing works exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Shuaixin Liu , Kunqian Li , Yilin Ding , Qi Qi

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

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

Thousands of hours of marine video data are collected annually from remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and other underwater assets. However, current manual methods of analysis impede the full utilization of collected data for real time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Océane Boulais , Ben Woodward , Brian Schlining , Lonny Lundsten , Kevin Barnard , Katy Croff Bell , Kakani Katija

With the development of underwater object grabbing technology, underwater object recognition and segmentation of high accuracy has become a challenge. The existing underwater object detection technology can only give the general position of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Zhiwei Ma , Haojie Li , Zhihui Wang , Dan Yu , Tianyi Wang , Yingshuang Gu , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

The light absorption and scattering of underwater impurities lead to poor underwater imaging quality. The existing data-driven based underwater image enhancement (UIE) techniques suffer from the lack of a large-scale dataset containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-05 Lintao Peng , Chunli Zhu , Liheng Bian

Advances in underwater imaging enable collection of extensive seafloor image datasets necessary for monitoring important benthic ecosystems. The ability to collect seafloor imagery has outpaced our capacity to analyze it, hindering…

In this paper, we present the first large-scale dataset for semantic Segmentation of Underwater IMagery (SUIM). It contains over 1500 images with pixel annotations for eight object categories: fish (vertebrates), reefs (invertebrates),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Md Jahidul Islam , Chelsey Edge , Yuyang Xiao , Peigen Luo , Muntaqim Mehtaz , Christopher Morse , Sadman Sakib Enan , Junaed Sattar

In real-world underwater environment, exploration of seabed resources, underwater archaeology, and underwater fishing rely on a variety of sensors, vision sensor is the most important one due to its high information content, non-intrusive,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Nan Wang , Yabin Zhou , Fenglei Han , Haitao Zhu , Jingzheng Yao

To improve the quality of underwater images, various kinds of underwater image enhancement (UIE) operators have been proposed during the past few years. However, the lack of effective objective evaluation methods limits the further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Zhenqi Fu , Xueyang Fu , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding

We present a novel underwater image enhancement method termed SCNet to improve the image quality meanwhile cope with the degradation diversity caused by the water. SCNet is based on normalization schemes across both spatial and channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Zhenqi Fu , Xiaopeng Lin , Wu Wang , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding

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

Due to the uneven absorption of different light wavelengths in aquatic environments, underwater images suffer from low visibility and clear color deviations. With the advancement of autonomous underwater vehicles, extensive research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zengxi Zhang , Zeru Shi , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu

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

Aiming at the problems of color distortion, blur and excessive noise of underwater image, an underwater image enhancement algorithm based on structure-texture reconstruction is proposed. Firstly, the color equalization of the degraded image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Sen Lin , Kaichen Chi

Underwater sites are a harsh environment for augmented reality applications. Obstacles that must be battled include poor visibility conditions, difficult navigation, and hard manipulation with devices under water. This chapter focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Jan Čejka , Fotis Liarokapis

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