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We present a wavelet-based dual-stream network that addresses color cast and blurry details in underwater images. We handle these artifacts separately by decomposing an input image into multiple frequency bands using discrete wavelet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Ziyin Ma , Changjae Oh

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) technology aims to tackle the challenge of restoring the degraded underwater images due to light absorption and scattering. To address problems, a novel U-Net based Reinforced Swin-Convs Transformer for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Tingdi Ren , Haiyong Xu , Gangyi Jiang , Mei Yu , Ting Luo

Given a degraded input image, image restoration aims to recover the missing high-quality image content. Numerous applications demand effective image restoration, e.g., computational photography, surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-04 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Ling Shao

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

Images acquired during underwater activities suffer from environmental properties of the water, such as turbidity and light attenuation. These phenomena cause color distortion, blurring, and contrast reduction. In addition, irregular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Claudio D. Mello , Bryan U. Moreira , Paulo J. O. Evald , Paulo L. Drews , Silvia S. Botelho

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

Due to the wavelength-dependent light attenuation, refraction and scattering, underwater images usually suffer from color distortion and blurred details. However, due to the limited number of paired underwater images with undistorted images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Qi Qi , Kunqian Li , Haiyong Zheng , Xiang Gao , Guojia Hou , Kun Sun

Underwater imaging often suffers from low quality due to factors affecting light propagation and absorption in water. To improve image quality, some underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Meisheng Guan , Haiyong Xu , Gangyi Jiang , Mei Yu , Yeyao Chen , Ting Luo , Yang Song

The degradation in the underwater images is due to wavelength-dependent light attenuation, scattering, and to the diversity of the water types in which they are captured. Deep neural networks take a step in this field, providing autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Rita Pucci , Christian Micheloni , Niki Martinel

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) serve as the workhorse of deep learning, finding applications in various fields that rely on images. Given sufficient data, they exhibit the capacity to learn a wide range of concepts across diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Saorj Kumar , Prince Asiamah , Oluwatoyin Jolaoso , Ugochukwu Esiowu

Majority of deep learning methods utilize vanilla convolution for enhancing underwater images. While vanilla convolution excels in capturing local features and learning the spatial hierarchical structure of images, it tends to smooth input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Song Zhang , Daoliang Li , Ran Zhao

The growing complexity and scale of image processing tasks challenge classical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with high computational costs. Hybrid quantum-classical convolutional neural networks (HQCNNs) show potential to improve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Kwok-Ho Ng , Tingting Song , Zhiquan Liu

With the goal of recovering high-quality image content from its degraded version, image restoration enjoys numerous applications, such as in surveillance, computational photography, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Ling Shao

Underwater Image Restoration (UIR) remains a challenging task in computer vision due to the complex degradation of images in underwater environments. While recent approaches have leveraged various deep learning techniques, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Xiaojiao Guo , Yihang Dong , Xuhang Chen , Weiwen Chen , Zimeng Li , FuChen Zheng , Chi-Man Pun

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

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 image enhancement (UIE) plays a crucial role in various marine applications, but it remains challenging due to the complex underwater environment. Current learning-based approaches frequently lack explicit incorporation of prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yingtie Lei , Jia Yu , Yihang Dong , Changwei Gong , Ziyang Zhou , Chi-Man Pun

One impressive advantage of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is their ability to automatically learn feature representation from raw pixels, eliminating the need for hand-designed procedures. However, recent methods for single image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Hongyu Wang , Peihua Li

Due to the selective absorption and scattering of light by diverse aquatic media, underwater images usually suffer from various visual degradations. Existing underwater image enhancement (UIE) approaches that combine underwater physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Dazhao Du , Lingyu Si , Fanjiang Xu , Jianwei Niu , Fuchun Sun

The challenges in recovering underwater images are the presence of diverse degradation factors and the lack of ground truth images. Although synthetic underwater image pairs can be used to overcome the problem of inadequately observing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhenwei Zhang , Haorui Yan , Ke Tang , Yuping Duan