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Improving the aesthetic quality of images is challenging and eager for the public. To address this problem, most existing algorithms are based on supervised learning methods to learn an automatic photo enhancer for paired data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Zhangkai Ni , Wenhan Yang , Shiqi Wang , Lin Ma , Sam Kwong

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

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

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

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

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 object detection is a crucial and challenging problem in marine engineering and aquatic robot. The difficulty is partly because of the degradation of underwater images caused by light selective absorption and scattering.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yudong Wang , Jichang Guo , Wanru He , Huan Gao , Huihui Yue , Zenan Zhang , Chongyi 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

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

To assist underwater object detection for better performance, image enhancement technology is often used as a pre-processing step. However, most of the existing enhancement methods tend to pursue the visual quality of an image, instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yanling Qiu , Qianxue Feng , Boqin Cai , Hongan Wei , Weiling Chen

Due to the light absorption and scattering induced by the water medium, underwater images usually suffer from some degradation problems, such as low contrast, color distortion, and blurring details, which aggravate the difficulty of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Runmin Cong , Wenyu Yang , Wei Zhang , Chongyi Li , Chun-Le Guo , Qingming Huang , Sam Kwong

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

With the rise of marine exploration, underwater imaging has gained significant attention as a research topic. Underwater video enhancement has become crucial for real-time computer vision tasks in marine exploration. However, most existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Suhas Srinath , Aditya Chandrasekar , Hemang Jamadagni , Rajiv Soundararajan , Prathosh A P

Underwater images are often affected by light refraction and absorption, reducing visibility and interfering with subsequent applications. Existing underwater image enhancement methods primarily focus on improving visual quality while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zengxi Zhang , Zhiying Jiang , Long Ma , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

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

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

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 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

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

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