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Underwater images are severely degraded by wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering, resulting in color distortion, low contrast, and loss of fine details that hinder vision-based underwater applications. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Afrah Shaahid , Muzammil Behzad

The experimental results of improved underwater image enhancement algorithms based on partial differential equations (PDEs) are presented in this report. This second work extends the study of previous work and incorporating several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-12 U. A. Nnolim

Underwater image restoration has been a challenging problem for decades since the advent of underwater photography. Most solutions focus on shallow water scenarios, where the scene is uniformly illuminated by the sunlight. However, the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yifan Song , Mengkun She , Kevin Köser

Underwater images often suffer from color distortion and low contrast resulting in various image types, due to the scattering and absorption of light by water. While it is difficult to obtain high-quality paired training samples with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Pan Mu , Hanning Xu , Zheyuan Liu , Zheng Wang , Sixian Chan , Cong Bai

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

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

Deep learning has been achieving decent performance in computer vision requiring a large volume of images, however, collecting images is expensive and difficult in many scenarios. To alleviate this issue, many image augmentation algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Mingle Xu , Sook Yoon , Alvaro Fuentes , Dong Sun Park

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

In recent years, there has been a surge of research focused on underwater image enhancement using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), driven by the need to overcome the challenges posed by underwater environments. Issues such as light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Kancharagunta Kishan Babu , Ashreen Tabassum , Bommakanti Navaneeth , Tenneti Jahnavi , Yenka Akshaya

Underwater images are fundamental for studying and understanding the status of marine life. We focus on reducing the memory space required for image storage while the memory space consumption in the collecting phase limits the time lasting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Rita Pucci , Niki Martinel

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

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

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

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

Global positioning systems can provide sufficient positioning accuracy for large scale robotic tasks in open environments. However, in underwater environments, these systems cannot be directly used, and measuring the position of underwater…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Vicu-Mihalis Maer , Levente Tamas , Lucian Busoniu

Underwater image enhancement algorithms have attracted much attention in underwater vision task. However, these algorithms are mainly evaluated on different data sets and different metrics. In this paper, we set up an effective and pubic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Hanyu Li , Jingjing Li , Wei Wang

Underwater Image Rendering aims to generate a true-tolife underwater image from a given clean one, which could be applied to various practical applications such as underwater image enhancement, camera filter, and virtual gaming. We explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tian Ye , Sixiang Chen , Yun Liu , Yi Ye , Erkang Chen , Yuche Li

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 object detection faces the problem of underwater image degradation, which affects the performance of the detector. Underwater object detection methods based on noise reduction and image enhancement usually do not provide images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhuoyan Liu , Bo Wang , Ye Li , Jiaxian He , Yunfeng Li

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for underwater image color correction based on a Tikhonov type optimization model in the CIELAB color space. It presents a new variational interpretation of the complementary adaptation theory in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yuchen He