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Underwater images play a crucial role in ocean research and marine environmental monitoring since they provide quality information about the ecosystem. However, the complex and remote nature of the environment results in poor image quality…

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Underwater images typically suffer from severe colour distortions, low visibility, and reduced structural clarity due to complex optical effects such as scattering and absorption, which greatly degrade their visual quality and limit the…

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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.…

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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…

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Underwater images suffer from complex and diverse degradation, which inevitably affects the performance of underwater visual tasks. However, most existing learning-based Underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods mainly restore such…

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Popular convolutional neural networks mainly use paired images in a supervised way for image watermark removal. However, watermarked images do not have reference images in the real world, which results in poor robustness of image watermark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chunwei Tian , Menghua Zheng , Tiancai Jiao , Wangmeng Zuo , Yanning Zhang , Chia-Wen Lin

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) is essential for robust visual perception in marine applications. However, existing methods predominantly rely on uniform mapping tailored to average dataset distributions, leading to over-processing…

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Underwater robots play an important role in oceanic geological exploration, resource exploitation, ecological research, and other fields. However, the visual perception of underwater robots is affected by various environmental factors. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-08 Xuelei Chen , Pin Zhang , Lingwei Quan , Chao Yi , Cunyue Lu

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

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

Current self-supervised denoising methods for paired noisy images typically involve mapping one noisy image through the network to the other noisy image. However, after measuring the spectral bias of such methods using our proposed Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Wang Zhang , Huaqiu Li , Xiaowan Hu , Tao Jiang , Zikang Chen , Haoqian Wang

Visual inspection of underwater structures by vehicles, e.g. remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), plays an important role in scientific, military, and commercial sectors. However, the automatic extraction of information using software tools…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Yousif Hashisho , Mohamad Albadawi , Tom Krause , Uwe Freiherr von Lukas

Underwater images often have severe quality degradation and distortion due to light absorption and scattering in the water medium. A hazed image formation model is widely used to restore the image quality. It depends on two optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Wei Song , Yan Wang , Dongmei Huang , Antonio Liotta , Cristian Perra

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

The image processing community has witnessed remarkable advances in enhancing and restoring images. Nevertheless, restoring the visual quality of underwater images remains a great challenge. End-to-end frameworks might fail to enhance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Walysson Vital Barbosa , Henrique Grandinetti Barbosa Amaral , Thiago Lages Rocha , Erickson Rangel Nascimento

Underwater images often suffer from various issues such as low brightness, color shift, blurred details, and noise due to light absorption and scattering caused by water and suspended particles. Previous underwater image enhancement (UIE)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zheng Cheng , Guodong Fan , Jingchun Zhou , Min Gan , C. L. Philip Chen

Underwater vision suffers from severe effects due to selective attenuation and scattering when light propagates through water. Such degradation not only affects the quality of underwater images but limits the ability of vision tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Chongyi Li , Jichang Guo , Chunle Guo

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is a highly challenging task due to the complexity of underwater environment and the diversity of underwater image degradation. Due to the application of deep learning, current UIE methods have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yi Liu , Qiuping Jiang , Xinyi Wang , Ting Luo , Jingchun Zhou

Large amount of image denoising literature focuses on single channel images and often experimentally validates the proposed methods on tens of images at most. In this paper, we investigate the interaction between denoising and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Jiqing Wu , Radu Timofte , Zhiwu Huang , Luc Van Gool

Underwater imaging is essential for marine exploration, environmental monitoring, and infrastructure inspection. However, water causes severe image degradation through wavelength-dependent absorption and scattering, resulting in color…

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