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Robust vision restoration of underwater images remains a challenge. Owing to the lack of well-matched underwater and in-air images, unsupervised methods based on the cyclic generative adversarial framework have been widely investigated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shuaizheng Yan , Xingyu Chen , Zhengxing Wu , Min Tan , Junzhi Yu

In this paper, we propose a novel technique to reconstruct 3D surface of an underwater object using stereo images. Reconstructing the 3D surface of an underwater object is really a challenging task due to degraded quality of underwater…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-12 C. J. Prabhakar , P. U. Praveen Kumar

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

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 imagery often suffers from severe degradation resulting in low visual quality and reduced object detection performance. This work aims to evaluate state-of-the-art image enhancement models, investigate their effects on underwater…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Ali Awad , Ashraf Saleem , Sidike Paheding , Evan Lucas , Serein Al-Ratrout , Timothy C. Havens

Underwater imagery often exhibits distorted coloration as a result of light-water interactions, which complicates the study of benthic environments in marine biology and geography. In this research, we propose an algorithm to restore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Underwater visual imaging is crucial for marine engineering, but it suffers from low contrast, blurriness, and color degradation, which hinders downstream analysis. Existing underwater image enhancement methods often treat the haze and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Chengqin Wu , Shuai Yu , Tuyan Luo , Qiuhua Rao , Qingson Hu , Jingxiang Xu , Lijun Zhang

Underwater image enhancement has become an attractive topic as a significant technology in marine engineering and aquatic robotics. However, the limited number of datasets and imperfect hand-crafted ground truth weaken its robustness to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Di Wang , Long Ma , Risheng Liu , Xin Fan

In general, underwater images suffer from color distortion and low contrast, because light is attenuated and backscattered as it propagates through water (differently depending on wavelength and on the properties of the water body). An…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Tanmoy Mondal , Ricardo Mendoza , Lucas Drumetz

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

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

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

This paper addresses the challenging problem of image enhancement in complex underwater scenes by proposing a solution based on deep learning. The proposed method skillfully integrates two deep convolutional neural network models, VGG19 and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Aoqi Li , Yanghui Song , Jichao Dao , Chengfu Yang

Underwater images play a key role in ocean exploration, but often suffer from severe quality degradation due to light absorption and scattering in water medium. Although major breakthroughs have been made recently in the general area of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Yan Wang , Wei Song , Giancarlo Fortino , Lizhe Qi , Wenqiang Zhang , Antonio Liotta

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

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

Underwater image enhancement, as a pre-processing step to improve the accuracy of the following object detection task, has drawn considerable attention in the field of underwater navigation and ocean exploration. However, most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Long Chen , Zheheng Jiang , Lei Tong , Zhihua Liu , Aite Zhao , Qianni Zhang , Junyu Dong , Huiyu Zhou

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

Super-resolution reconstruction techniques entail the utilization of software algorithms to transform one or more sets of low-resolution images captured from the same scene into high-resolution images. In recent years, considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Hao Yan , Zixiang Wang , Zhengjia Xu , Zhuoyue Wang , Zhizhong Wu , Ranran Lyu

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