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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

Underwater images often suffer from quality degradation due to absorption and scattering effects. Most existing underwater image enhancement algorithms produce a single, fixed-color image, limiting user flexibility and application. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Xiaofeng Cong , Jing Zhang , Yeying Jin , Junming Hou , Yu Zhao , Jie Gui , James Tin-Yau Kwok , Yuan Yan Tang

The difficulties of underwater image degradation due to light scattering, absorption, and fog-like particles which lead to low resolution and poor visibility are discussed in this study report. We suggest a sophisticated hybrid strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Yugandhar Reddy Gogireddy , Jithendra Reddy Gogireddy

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 visual perception is essentially important for underwater exploration, archeology, ecosystem and so on. The low illumination, light reflections, scattering, absorption and suspended particles inevitably lead to the critically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Yan Kai , Liang Lanyue , Zheng Ziqiang , Wang Guoqing , Yang Yang

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

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

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 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

Ultra-high-definition (UHD) image restoration aims to specifically solve the problem of quality degradation in ultra-high-resolution images. Recent advancements in this field are predominantly driven by deep learning-based innovations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Liyan Wang , Weixiang Zhou , Cong Wang , Kin-Man Lam , Zhixun Su , Jinshan Pan

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 images suffer severe degradation due to wavelength-dependent attenuation, scattering, and illumination non-uniformity that vary across water types and depths. We propose an unsupervised Domain-Invariant Visual Enhancement and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Rajini Makam , Sharanya Patil , Dhatri Shankari T M , Suresh Sundaram , Narasimhan Sundararajan

During the acquisition of an image from its source, noise always becomes an integral part of it. Various algorithms have been used in past to denoise the images. Image denoising still has scope for improvement. Visual information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Santosh Paudel , Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Pradip Singh Maharjan , Rameshwar Rijal

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

Addressing the issue of submerged underwater trash is crucial for safeguarding aquatic ecosystems and preserving marine life. While identifying debris present on the surface of water bodies is straightforward, assessing the underwater…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Jaskaran Singh Walia , Pavithra L K

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

Underwater images suffer from light refraction and absorption, which impairs visibility and interferes the subsequent applications. Existing underwater image enhancement methods mainly focus on image quality improvement, ignoring the effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zengxi Zhang , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Recently, a new underwater imaging formation model presented that the coefficients related to the direct and backscatter transmission signals are dependent on the type of water, camera specifications, water depth, and imaging range. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Monika Roznere , Alberto Quattrini Li

Principle objective of Image enhancement is to process an image so that result is more suitable than original image for specific application. Digital image enhancement techniques provide a multitude of choices for improving the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-23 Raman Maini , Himanshu Aggarwal

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