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When employing underwater vehicles for the autonomous inspection of assets, it is crucial to consider and assess the water conditions. These conditions significantly impact visibility and directly affect robotic operations. Turbidity can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Alexandre Cardaillac , Donald G. Dansereau

Learning-based methods for underwater image enhancement (UWIE) have undergone extensive exploration. However, learning-based models are usually vulnerable to adversarial examples so as the UWIE models. To the best of our knowledge, there is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Siyu Zhai , Zhibo He , Xiaofeng Cong , Junming Hou , Jie Gui , Jian Wei You , Xin Gong , James Tin-Yau Kwok , Yuan Yan Tang

In this paper we have present an improved Cycle GAN based model for under water image enhancement. We have utilized the cycle consistent learning technique of the state-of-the-art Cycle GAN model with modification in the loss function in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tashmoy Ghosh

Deep neural networks for image quality enhancement typically need large quantities of highly-curated training data comprising pairs of low-quality images and their corresponding high-quality images. While high-quality image acquisition is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Uddeshya Upadhyay , Suyash Awate

Color correction for underwater images has received increasing interests, due to its critical role in facilitating available mature vision algorithms for underwater scenarios. Inspired by the stunning success of deep convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Xiaodong Liu , Zhi Gao , Ben M. Chen

This paper reports on WaterGAN, a generative adversarial network (GAN) for generating realistic underwater images from in-air image and depth pairings in an unsupervised pipeline used for color correction of monocular underwater images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Jie Li , Katherine A. Skinner , Ryan M. Eustice , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

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

Due to the complex interplay of light absorption and scattering in the underwater environment, underwater images experience significant degradation. This research presents a two-stage underwater image enhancement network called the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Han Mei , Kunqian Li , Shuaixin Liu , Chengzhi Ma , Qianli Jiang

We study how to generate captions that are not only accurate in describing an image but also discriminative across different images. The problem is both fundamental and interesting, as most machine-generated captions, despite phenomenal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Dianqi Li , Qiuyuan Huang , Xiaodong He , Lei Zhang , Ming-Ting Sun

Single image super-resolution (SISR) models are able to enhance the resolution and visual quality of underwater images and contribute to a better understanding of underwater environments. The integration of these models in Autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Alireza Aghelan , Modjtaba Rouhani

In this paper, we present an approach to image enhancement with diffusion model in underwater scenes. Our method adapts conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic models to generate the corresponding enhanced images by using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Yi Tang , Takafumi Iwaguchi , Hiroshi Kawasaki

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 optical images inevitably suffer from various degradation factors such as blurring, low contrast, and color distortion, which hinder the accuracy of object detection tasks. Due to the lack of paired underwater/clean images, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Bin Li , Li Li , Zhenwei Zhang , Yuping Duan

Underwater images taken from autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV's) often suffer from low light, high turbidity, poor contrast, motion-blur and excessive light scattering and hence require image enhancement techniques for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Sreeraj Rajan Warrier , D Sri Harshavardhan Reddy , Sriya Bada , Rohith Achampeta , Sebastian Uppapalli , Jayasri Dontabhaktuni

Underwater images normally suffer from degradation due to the transmission medium of water bodies. Both traditional prior-based approaches and deep learning-based methods have been used to address this problem. However, the inflexible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shixuan Xu , Hao Qi , Wei Wang , Chao Huang , Jie Wen , Junyu Dong , Xinghui Dong

Underwater image enhancement is such an important vision task due to its significance in marine engineering and aquatic robot. It is usually work as a pre-processing step to improve the performance of high level vision tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Long Chen , Lei Tong , Feixiang Zhou , Zheheng Jiang , Zhenyang Li , Jialin Lv , Junyu Dong , Huiyu Zhou

Image generation abilities of text-to-image diffusion models have significantly advanced, yielding highly photo-realistic images from descriptive text and increasing the viability of leveraging synthetic images to train computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jiahui Chen , Amy Zhang , Adriana Romero-Soriano

In this paper, we propose a principled Perceptual Adversarial Networks (PAN) for image-to-image transformation tasks. Unlike existing application-specific algorithms, PAN provides a generic framework of learning mapping relationship between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Chaoyue Wang , Chang Xu , Chaohui Wang , Dacheng Tao

In recent years, diffusion models have gained popularity for their ability to generate higher-quality images in comparison to GAN models. However, like any other large generative models, these models require a huge amount of data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Rajesh Shrestha , Bowen Xie

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